10 NOVEMBER 1944, page 10

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON rr the age of reason, and are no longer swayed by those extremes of affection or dislike which disturbed our young and middle years. Our hatred of the......

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I am not aware, moreover, that any of my subsequent visits to Buda-Pesth were accompanied by circumstances which should perpetuate irrational distaste. I admit that I never felt......

It Is Natural And Right That We Should Experience A

sense of horror when large human cities are destroyed. The fact that Buda-Pesth and Berlin are ugly cities should not make any marked difference. There are many rational reasons......

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My psycho-analyst, I fear, would remain unimpressed by all these explanations. He would shake his head patiently, deny that such were the true causes of my antipathy, and begin......

Were I Either Leisured Or Enormously Rich I Might Submit

to some psycho-analyst the complex of antipathies which tangle themselves around my concept of Hungary. I should seek to convince this examiner that my dislike of everything......