16 JANUARY 1959, page 3

Adenauer's Prisoners

W HETHER by virtue of his uninhibited talent for clowning in public, or his conversational persuasiveness in private, Mr. Mikoyan seems to have done a remarkable softening-up......

—portrait Of The Week— It Snowed, It Froze And It

fogged. And the weather forecasters got it wrong right down the line. Shivering, the country could work up little enthu- siasm for the new (if that is the word) Soviet proposals......

The Spectator

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1959......