26 JULY 1957, page 4

Indecent Haste

T HE new hangman of England wears a bow tie, he is assisted by his son, and he would like the hangman's job to remain a family affair. This devotion to the hereditary principle......

Imam And Sultan

From a Correspondent p OLITICS in Oman is a bewildering affair : com- pounded of tribal rivalries, religious differ- ences, and geographical peculiarities, complicated by......

The Traitors

'The urgency has been NIded to. as far as our friends in the Persian Gulf are concerned, by the near treachery of certain Members opposite.' HUGH FRASER, MP. The Member for......