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'i Do Not Know,' Said Mr. Gresham Cooke The Other

day, according to Hansard, 'whether my hon. Friend is aware that the other day a branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union had a secret ballet, and only seven per cent. of the......

I Went To The First Night Of The Crystal Heart,

and was torn between sympathy for the audience, who were much more amusing than the cast, and sympathy for Miss Gladys Cooper. If ever a play deserved the bird this one did, but......

1 Shepilov Is Needed To Direct Propaganda, The Need S

certainly exists. That disaffection has gone A Spectator's Notebook THE GIANT-KILLING Bournemouth football team have a star player called 011ie Norris, otherwise known as......

But Some Questions Do Arise. All But The Most...

minded Conservatives must see the advantage of some toleration of dissent within the party; after all the present Prime Minister—like his two predecessors—was once a prominent......

As A Townsman, I Am Diffident About Venturing An Opinion

on agricultural matters; but surely the latest PEP pamphlet, Agriculture and Land- use, is wrong when it argues that the trouble with English farms is that they are too small?......

Religious Controversy, Mr. Evelyn Waugh Re- Cently...

its difficulties and demands a certain knowledge of the subject. Writing in the current number of Encounter, Mr. Angus Wilson seems to be oblivious of both the hazards and the......

I See That Mr. John Gordon, Too, Has Been Crowing

because twenty-five books published in the English language in France have been banned by the French Ministry of the Interior; and as one of them was recommended to the......

I Have Not Read The Works Of M. Jean Genet,

and for all I know they might give me the same nausea as they gave the Chairman of the Birmingham Public Library Committee; but I do not feel that the Government ought to......

The Shepilov Reshuffle Is Just The Sort Of Minor And

obscure development on which K remlinolo- gists most delight to exercise their mutually con- tradictory ingenuity. Shepilov was transferred from the Party Secretariat to be......