24 JULY 1953, page 7

Preview Mr. Orson Welles Hoped, But In The End I

believe failed, to listen to Wednesday's debate on Foreign Affairs. He will doubtless take another opportunity of visiting the Strangers' Gallery, but Wednesday's proceedings......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE Press Council held its first meeting this week and very sensibly appointed Colonel John Astor as its chairman. It also passed a resolution which " strongly deprecates, as......

, Jan Struther (née Joyce Anstruther), Who Died In New

York this week at the age of 52, started her literary career as an occasional 'contributor to, among other periodicals, the Spectator. Mrs. Miniver, who I suppose will live on......

The New Test

I T was accidental but appropriate in one sense that one day after opening this week's debate in the House of Commons on foreign affairs Mr. R. A. Butler should go on to warn......

All Hands To The Crystal Bowl The Principle Of Collective

responsibility, so fervently advocated by the leaders of the U.S.S.R., has found an unexpected adherent in Lord Beaverbrook. The task of interpreting developments in Russia to......

The Marble - Archers The Edifying Saga Of The Archer...

likely, according to the BBC's agricultural liaison officer,°to go on for another ten years. Listening to the unashamedly West End accents in which most of the cast deliver it......