20 MARCH 1953, page 5

It Was, Of Course, Very Wrong Of A Gentleman Of

Hungarian origin to go to the Tate Gallery and smash the model of some- thing claiming to be sculpture (it is something new for a contrap- tion of wires to be styled that) and......

The May Week Issue Of Granta, I Read, Is To

cost 2s. " as it will take the form of an anti-Coronation number." A mis- The May Week issue of Granta, I read, is to cost 2s. " as it will take the form of an anti-Coronation......

A Brief Visit To The Exhibition Of Coronation Souvenirs, If

that is the right name for the not very distinguished collection of objects—from ash-trays upwards—now visible at the Tea Centre in Lower Regent Street, has been almost enough......

I Spoke Last Week Of The Trouble Starlings Are Causing

to an impotent humanity. Since then I have learned that humanity is not so impotent after all. I have also learned a new word, which is always stimulating. It comes in the form......

A Spectator's Notebook

I T looks as though there would be some difficulty about the proposed increase in Judges' salaries. About one point I imagine there will be general agreement. Having regard to......

Eastern Enigma

M R. STALIN, the Dictator of Russia, is dead. Mr. Gottwald, the Dictator of Czechoslovakia, is dead. President Tito, the virtual Dictator of Yugoslavia, is enjoying unusual......

I Am Not Surprised That Lord Wavell Should Protest At

the dilatoriness of the police authorities in regard to the issue of a summons against him for exceeding the speed-limit. The alleged offence—of course it is still only......