29 MARCH 1957, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

THE NEWS that has been sent from Cyprus during the last fortnight must, intentionally or not, have strengthened those members of the Cabinet who believe with General MacArthur......

A Book On The Russian Revolution By Sir Robert Bruce

Lockhart (The Two Revolutions, Phoenix House, 10s. 6d.) is something of an event. Sir Robert was a splendid example of those atypical geniuses who luckily for us lurk, suspect......

Westminster Commentary

WHAT really ought to be done about Commander Noble is far from clear. Immediate transfer to one of the more remote of the back benches would help, certainly; but just think whom......

Television Is Already Beginning . To Add An Extra...

some news stories; I would have been sorry to miss a couple of strike incidents caught by Independent Television News—still far ahead of the poor old BBC news team. One was an......

Newspaper Estimates Of What Their Readers Most Want To Know

about people in the news are nearly always odd. The commonest description of Lord Altrincham, who this week resigned from two committees of the Victoria League in protest......

St. Patrick's Day' Intelligence

1 1\1 : 1 fewer than 4,500 London Irish and Irish endoners marched in the spring sunshine in the c°10 urful St. Patrick's Day Parade. —Cork Examiner, March 18, p. 4. !, 40 11t......

• Randolph Churchill And An Order For What I Said

about the Press, although on a higher level Smith's had refused to have anything to do with the book. and said I would be interested to hear the sequel. (Smith's, incidentally,......