25 AUGUST 1961

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THE WALL

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T RE barbed wire is coming down in Berlin and the bricks are going up in its place; so much for Communist talk of 'temporary' measures on the sector borders. Meanwhile, though...

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

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By ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST Ton theft of the Goya Wellington from a commanding position in the National Gallery spotlights for British benefit the emergence of a new international...

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Through the Brandenburg Looking-Glass

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From SARAH CAINHAM Bunn.' HE four-power status of Berlin has been dead .i. for sonic years. Its burial took place, long after the demise, on Sunday, August 13. The testament of...

After the Ex p ulsion The, leaders of the TUC have clearly

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decided, 1 and not before time, that their years of shameful inactivity in the face of the Com- munists' control of the Electrical Trades Union must be clearly seen to be over....

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The Lucrative Mystery

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By PETER FORSTER IN a sense, Independent 7 elevision came into being because Mrs. Ernest Bevin wanted to spend a weekend at Brighton. The wife of the then Foreign Secretary...

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Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin. By George

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F. Kennan. (Hutchinson, 40s.) that anyone claiming the right to influence our opinions should nourish ignorance or delusion about one of the most important factors—Soviet...

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