7 AUGUST 1953, page 4

Canada's Choice

The Canadian federal general election (polling on Monday) has been comfortably dull in its preliminary stages. This is almost entirely because the Liberal Government's long and......

Haute Couture

Christian Dior, it seems, is a man misunderstood. For a week the jackdaws of the fashion world pecked and chattered and quarrelled about the length of his hem line. But all the......

The Subversive Food Parcels

At a railway_ station in East Germany the police made a little man, who only a few minutes before had been clutching his parcel, stand up and address the crowd on the wickedness......

The Ira Marches On

The recent discovery of 108 rifles and 18 automatic weapons in a van at Bishop's Stortford fits into a wider pattern of events. There have been vague rumours of an organisation......

Cairo Circus

On Thursday, July 30th, Mr. Tayeb Hussein, the Pakistan chargé d'affaires in Cairo, held a dinner party which may turn out to have been a major diplomatic event. Around his......