28 MARCH 1952, page 5

Mr. Bevan Being Ill With Laryngitis The Parliamentary...

adopted its new standing orders in an atmosphere of complete placidity. But whether the calm is enduring will depend on the interpretation put on the conscience clause in its......

One Expression Which I Suggest Should Be Banned Finally From

political discussions is "holding the line of the Elbe." It might be supposed that the Elbe represented an approxi- mately straight north-and-south line which the Russians were......

Who Are The Six Personalities In History Who Have Done

more than any others to influence the life and thought of the average middle-class intellectual Englishman—and his wife, or the equivalent ? I ask the question because I heard......

Two Former Labour Ministers, Mr. Gaitskell And Mr. Wood- Row

Wyatt, deserve great credit for speeches they made last week-end, designed to keep rearmament out of party politics— not, indeed, out of intra-party politics, for the whole aim......

Dr. Malan's Crisis

C RISIS is clearly not too strong a word to use when the Prime Minister is announcing his intention of defying the Supreme Court, when political demonstrations in different......

What Is To Be Done With The Kingsway Tunnel After

the last tram thunders through it on Saturday of next week, to make that dramatic emergence up a steep slope into the upper air at the junction of Southampton Row and Theobalds......

The Government's Refusal To Impose What Are Known As...

charges" in hospitals, i.e. to exact from patients kept in the hospital for a period of several weeks some proportion of what they would have spent on food at home, is no doubt......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE views of the massed peerage on the B.B.C. and its future are interesting. My Lords Halifax, Bessborough, Brand and Sandford have all graced the columns of The Times in the......

Is Find I Am By No Means The Only Person

who feels strongly on the refusal of the B.B.C. News Department to refer to the German Chancellor as anything but Herr Adenauer. From one quarter comes the question why the......