The Board of Inland Revenue published last Wednesday a survey of personal income for 1959-60 which for the first time interprets the results of the three five-yearly surveys of incomes since the war. The survey confirms the view that the differences in the incomes of different classes in this country … Read More
“Come to lively London and find how to become dead without anyone knowing how”. Under this frightening heading a fortnight ago the satirical magazine Private Eye made the sensational disclosure regarding the disappearance and death of a sixty-year-old painter, Herman Woolf. This time the satirists were dead serious. It did … Read More
India’s standing in this country dropped steeply when the Chinese army cut through our thin defences both in the bleak mountainous wastes of Ladakh and the sparsely inhabited tribal belt of the North-East Frontier Agency last October. Since then India has not been able to recover her lost esteem. The … Read More
On the day the partial test ban treaty was signed in Moscow, a two-way exchange in sound and vision was arranged between London and Moscow on the initiative of the BBC. There was an unfortunate interruption when Mr Boris Belitsky, the well-known Moscow Radio commentator, was in the midst of … Read More
The death of Dr Stephen Ward last week has not set at rest the grave public disquiet which was caused by rumours and insinuations that the former Minister for War, Mr John Profumo and Lord Astor were not the only prominent figures to be linked with the twilight world of … Read More
The non-official British response to the partial test treaty signed earlier in the week in Moscow has been contradictory. The “optimists” have interpreted the treaty and the simultaneous breakdown of the Sino-Soviet ideological talks as one of those turning points in history which lead to reversals of alliances. The “pessimists’’ … Read More
If China does invade India, which is considered highly unlikely here, the British Government will undoubtedly extend all possible help for the defence of India. Similarly the British Government will continue to honour its obligations for the defence of Malaysia which comes into existence with British blessings and support. Britain … Read More
The British have had a good and close look at the other side of the moon. They have not liked what they have seen. But they are unable to turn their gaze away. It is not that they are fascinated by the horror of the goings on on the opulent … Read More
With some exceptions Indian representatives who come here speak in two voices. If the subject of discussion is Kashmir they assert quite unhesitatingly that the West, particularly the British Government, has always been prejudiced against us. If the subject is economic and military assistance they go to great lengths in … Read More
With the willing consent of Mr Harold Wilson, Mr Macmillan has put an end to further discussion of the Philby affair in the House of Commons. The newspapers have also been silent on this question mainly because they have nothing new to disclose. Most if not all the questions that … Read More
