15 FEBRUARY 1957, page 7

Portrait Of The Week

THE Eisenhower doctrine, whatever its virtues, has at least had the demerit of pro- voking a great deal of un- welcome activity in the Soviet Foreign Office. Among the......

A Conservative Mp Gave Me This Progress Report On The

Macmillan Government : 'They've ad- vanced five yards and now they're digging in.'......

The Committee Of Privileges Is Evidently Wise Enough To...

that it burnt its fingers over the Junor case, and it has disposed of the other petrol cases with admirable circumspection. The Com- mittee did not even call the alleged......

But I Confess I Do Not Know What Alternative Procedure

to suggest. To relax all restrictions would be one answer; but the way Ministers behave when their guard is down is not encourag- ing. There have recently been the cautionary......

A Spectator's Notebook

I AM INCREASINGLY puzzled over the • protocol, or absence of it, which dictates ministerial relations with the press, and with broadcasting. If the editor of the Spectator, or......

Was Last Week's Animal, Vegetable Or Mineral?— A Panel Game

which can normally be relied upon to be reasonably adult. On this occasion the objects to be identified were human, the idea being that the panel should guess their nationality.......

I Had Not Realised The Extent To Which Dr. Mead

had diverted her attention from the inhabitants of, the islands of the Pacific to the inhabitants of the Continents of the New World. Dr. Mead has the good news that the......