19 AUGUST 1955, page 6

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE 6 E they still going on?' asked a friend of mine when I R I told him that I had been last week to address a Fabian Summer School, and I must confess that as I......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE RUSSIAN announcement of the release of , 640,000 men from the forces is another of those acts which go over well in the West, without amounting to very much. The Russian......

Portrait Of The Week

N EWS from all quarters of the world this week has been more remarkable for sensation thah for significance. It is true that the slow de-freeze in the cold war con- tinues with......