20 NOVEMBER 1953, page 7

Comeback

The reform and revitalisation of Punch has been proceeding apace under Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge, the first of its editors (I think I am right in saying) to have seen war-time......

The Picadors

On Monday evening three gentlemen interrogated Mr. Evelyn Waugh for half an hour in a BBC programme called " Frankly Speaking." Affability is not among this great novelist's......

From Stockholm To Grosvenor Square

Although it will be sad to say goodbye to Mr. Julius C. Holmes after his five years service as Minister at the United States Embassy in London, no better replacement could have......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE Socialist member of Parliament who stigmatised as " disgracefully flippant " Lord Montgomery's reference, in an after-dinner speech, to the next world war as the " next......

Peace Through Strength

T HE fact that the post-Stalin Ruisian attitude to the non-Communist world is not much different from the attitude adopted under the implacable direction of Stalin himself is......

In A World Of His Own

Bombay is not a very good listening post for the Himalayas, and one should, I think, accept with considerable reserve the news agency report from that city that an Abominable......

Publish And Be Stumped

I do not know whether the Press Council, which apportions blame, is also empowered to make awards or issue commenda- tions to journalists for exceptionally meritorious conduct.......