15 JUNE 1962, page 4

Spain

T HE present crisis in Spain, strikingly sym- bolised by the exile of Gil Robles, is the most serious challenge the Franco regime has had to meet since the inflationary crisis......

Eec And Eastern Europe

HE meeting of COMECON (Council for I Mutual Economic Assistance) and Mr. Khrushchev's proposal for a world trade organisation of an unspecified type are both signs that the......

Children In Hospital

VER three years ago, in February, 1959, k../ the Platt Report on the care of children in hospital recognised (what to any parent is obvious) that a small sick child needs his......

The Merger

From a *Correspondent 'THOUGH the Atlantic is the biggest and I richest air route in the world, not much money has been made on it in the last year. The jets have been......

Agreement In Laos

.XTow these our Princes are come borne IN again....' There must have been a number of diplomats murmuring that phrase to them- selves after the conclusion of the agreement to......