11 JULY 1952, page 14

Iraq Comes Into Money

By LORD KINROSS T HAT wearisome five-hundred-mile journey across the desert, from Damascus to Baghdad, is a journey back- wards in time. Baghdad has the flavour of Cairo a......

Knowing The Germans

HAT sort of festival is this you're going to at Lyons ? "„ " Theatrical," I said, " and musical." " Gastronomical," he said, having once visited Lyons. And so it was in part.......