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By our Political Correspondent ou might imagine that Ministers here would have had Y their sleep disturbed wondering what Guy Mollet is going to say next. Sir Anthony Eden had...

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THE IRISH HAVE long been expecting an outbreak of terrorise' by the extremist republicans; what they did not foresee ' 0 the form it has taken—scattered raids around the Border....

on vagu e allegations of treason have yet had precise charges formulat ed against them (and indeed are unlikely to do so until after P4 l preliminary hearing is over), it is...

memoirs was, of course, written before the news o f her death. Much more could be written about her life's woo —in social service, in colonial relations, and for charities; l a...

Mr. Christopher Hollis. This extract from the book is perhaps worth recording : October 1817. A.C.N.XIII. Me invitat Hollis vinum compotare secum. Heu! nunc omni cura et...

to read S me of her poems during the last few days. I was un acquainted with them before, and, after looking at them tor a bit, came to the conclusion that, strictly on internal...

BY J. GRIMOND, MP URING the years when an Israel-Arab war seemed ) all too likely there was no Commonwealth policy adequate to meet the situation. When Israel was known , t ° be...

Herter may be expected to show a more sophisticated under- standing of the European scene than Mr. Hoover has done.' (Pile Times Washington Correspondent.) Quite . . . * * *

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BY RICHARD H. ROVERE New Y (0 T HE 1957 automobiles were put on display at the Ne w York Coliseum a few days ago, and Vice-Presiden t Nixon was invited up to address a banquet...

BY ANGUS MAUDE, MP They never had any kind of system, right or wrong, but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day, in order meanly to sneak out of...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN M ANY of my generation reacted against Gilbert and Sullivan, the organised encores, the clearly enunei' ated Punch-style jokes, the tunes that sounded to us...

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apartheid are further proof of a growing disregard for Christian prin- ciple in human relationships. That there seems to have been so little sense of outrage in this country may...

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Sta,—May I express the hope, which I feel sure will be widely shared, that when terms of peace between Jew and Arab come to be discussed, a final and worthy settlement of the...

SIR,—What interests me, but seems never to be mentioned by anybody, about Lloyd George's despatch box and its contents is this : What reason or evidence is there that Lloyd...

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The Way of the World. By William Congreve' (Saville.) THERE is, thank the Lord, no space here in philosophise about Comedies of Manners . Acres of newsprint would not have been...

DATES mean nothing : Dvorak was born in 1841, Janacek in 1854. Yet the elder Czech composer was of that century, the younger Moravian of this. No wonder it took Janacek so long...

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THIS volume consists of Newman's Journal and the curious Memoir which at the end of his life he drew up from the Journal, speaking of himself there in the third person, for the...

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By CUSTOS THE technical recovery on the Stock Exchange has been carried farther than most people expected. There have been a few good company reports to help the buying and...

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of six New Year Irresolutions. Not more than twelve lines of verse or one hundred words of prose. Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competitio n No. 357,' 99 Gower Street, London,...

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