16 DECEMBER 1955, page 12

Beyond The Jordan

BY HUGH FRASER D OWN the Persian Gulf in late autumn blows the Shamal, a cold, ill wind from Russian Central Asia. People in Basra town search out their winter things. But in......

Spurring On

By WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME S OME months ago I wrote a piece in the Spectator about Mr. Russell Spurr. the Daily Express Foreign Correspon- dent. In it I described his harrowing......