2 MAY 1969, page 7

Will It Be War?

NORTHERN IRELAND JAMES SIMPSON Belfast—At the time of writing the selection of Northern Ireland's next Prime Minister seems to be poised on a knife-edge, with Mr Faulkner......

School Song

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS 'The direction of the school is in the hands of a ruling class monopoly.'—Reader in Sociology at London School of Economics. Oh, what a crab and curse it is......

Chairman Mao's Tripod

CHINA DICK WILSON The ninth congress of the Chinese Communist party, the first to have been held for eleven years and which has now ended, has confirmed the intricate power......