30 JULY 1954, page 4

Scotching The Separatists

As the result of a long and skilful campaign of agitation on the part of apparently moderate nationalists and, Home Rulers, a Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs was appointed......

Hope For Air Defence

A military correspondent writes : aircraft are obsolescent, their numbers are far too few, and large sums—they will be very large, and frightening to the Treasury—must be laid......

A Base Going Cheap

During the last stage in the negotiations over Suez, the Egyptian Press described the British as haggling like a peanut vendor.' But as things have turned out, the ultimate......

Admiral North

Perhaps Lord Salisbury imagines that his speech in the House of Lords on Monday disposed once and for all of the affair of Admiral Sir Dudley North. If so, he is mistaken. The......