28 FEBRUARY 1958, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

SINCE HIS RETURN from his Com- monwealth tour the Prime Minister has broadcast four times—three of them on television. The contrast with his earlier, fumbling appear- ances has......

Westminster Commentary

BY ANGUS MAUDE, MP Twenty years ago Chamberlain, commenting more in sorrow than in anger on the resignation of both his Foreign Office Ministers, said plain- tively that the......

In A Poll Recently Conducted At Oxford And Cambridge Among

undergraduates in their third year, one of the questions was 'Which periodical do you prefer?' The results, published in Gemini, reveal that the Spectator heads the list at......

I Am Not Trying To Suggest That The Prime Minister

has abused broadcasting's hospitality; on the con- trary, I shall be very pleased if his recent appearances have finally destroyed the old notion of time 'balance.' It is absurd......

Mr. Vittorio De Sica Recently Took A Full Page In

a Hollywood newspaper to pay a tribute to yet another film version of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. It is, he writes, 'a masterpiece. Jennifer Jones is revealed as one of the......

I See From The News Chronicle That, According To A

Gallup Poll, the proportion of electors who say they would vote Liberal at a general election has risen to 15 per cent. (nine months ago it was 6 per cent.). Any further rise in......

A Statement In The Defence White Paper About Which Several

journals, including the Spectator, expressed concern was the threat of retaliation with nuclear weapons if the Russians launched a major attack with conventional weapons only.......