his mouth to express his regret that Spain was still cold- shouldered by the West. and thus put his foot in it. ,,The Opposition found it hard to believe that the Home...

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'• By PETER FORSTER A Limn I had forgotten how attractive the .■St. Tropez area is, the loveliest part, for my money, of that whole golden coast. It was over ten years since I...

courage and honesty. We, the Palestine Arabs, have not been able to make our voice reach international public opinion and con- vey the true story of the mass expulsion and...

SIR, — Because of my profound agreement with the premises Professor Peierls set forth in the first para- graph of his review of my book, On Thermonuclear War, and the generally...

J. Shawwa Agonising Misappraisal Herman Kahn Led Astray Vera Compton-Burnett, William Illingworth Christiansen and Beaverbrook A rthur Christiansen Asian Discrimination Dr. S....

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series of articles has been for the most part disparaging or derisive: the few tributes to former teachers have come as refreshing changes. Not many of your contributors, and...

I had 'a childish belief' that it was more important for a dramatic critic to report booing in the gallery than the performance on the stage. This is a petulant...

SIR,—Through the thin disguise of Jonathan Miller's humorous article 'Led Astray,' which appeared on May 12, I recognised the school about which he writes and myself as the...

Commission in London finds it difficult to understand Christopher Hollis's charge of racial discrimination against Ceylon. To get some idea of the racial hysteria that is kept...

for the refugees from Angola, hundreds of whom are dying. An eye-witness writes of disease, dysentery, tuberculosis and leprosy. 'More than half,' lie con- tinues, 'are women...

most people with no training in medicine are convinced that their opinions are of outstanding value. It is, of course, indisputable that the time devoted to training medical...

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B Y ANTHONY QUINTON O F the mixed strands of opinion which make up the doctrine of the New Left, its con- cern with culture is the most original and dis- tinguishing. Its...

`MOST educated people,' wrote Alfred Zimmern in his preface to the first edition of The Greek Commonwealth, now republished in paperback form by Oxford at 10s. 6d., `have their...

in an American magazine, showed him gallivanting in a Harpo Marx wig—Brendan Behan is still fighting a losing battle: not against drink, which can reasonably be regarded as a...

As the paperback revolution goes on its admir- able though sometimes capricious way, it throws up in new refurbished form the solid favourites of the recent past. Shiny covers...

BIOGRAPHY is at the very least a restfully satis- factory way of learning history. At the most it provides an understanding of a man in an his- torical situation, which would...

Two of the most influential myths in America in the nineteenth century were those of the Old South and the Frontier. The first was used to justify a status quo intellectually...

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