Black September: New Strike?
The four Black September guerrillas who failed in their mission against the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok, and who settled for a safe-conduct from Thailand to Egypt, have by now......
Pot Dealer
I was particularly annoyed to receive last week a duplicated letter from Lord Harlech, the former David Ormsby-Gore, written in his capacity as chairman of the European Movement......
Weighty Men?
Commissioners Soames and Thomson have been flatteringly described respectively, as Europe's 'foreign minister' and 'minister for the regions' in some of the reports dealing with......
Confident Winston Ii
Winston II has been busy defending his grandfather from Nicholas Tomalin who, Winston II writes, had proceeded "to adduce" that Winston I was "vengeful and wild " in his......
Virtue Denied
Familiar loyalty can be an excellent virtue. It is often denied. I recall how disappointed I was when Randolph Churchill's beautiful, and much-loved house at East Bergholt,......
Welcoming Inn
An acquaintance went into a strange public house and, delighted to find it unspoiled, remarked to his companion, "What a delightful old pub" or words to that effect. The......
Not Done Darlings
I see that Professor Ross, the academic who invented the distinction between U and non-U which Nancy Mitford exploited in a celebrated essay, is at it again, with a new list of......
Tidy Package
A correspondent tells me that he hears from a top man in Korea that there are strong rumours in Seoul that there will be a formal peace treaty in Korea at the same time as a......
Corridors . . .
PUZZLE IS HAPPY to contradict the rumour that, following the sale of his five NAB motor cars Sir Gerald Nabarro is giving up driving. SOME TIME AGO Puzzle wrote about nasty......
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