16 MAY 1970, page 6

Ireland

Mr Lynch's hour of crisis CONSTANTINE FITZGIBBON Dublin—We have long feared, indeed dreaded, that the recurrence of Irish violence in the north - eastern part of the island......

Royal Progress

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Thermidamas: Is it not hell to be a Queen? Is it not stinking hell to be a Queen And make procession through Metropolis? A Queen is not so pampered as a cat.......

France

The confession MARC ULLMANN Paris—The bosses of the French Communist party are livid, while the intellectuals of the left are at each other's throats. Never before has a film......

Ghana

Second chance TIBOR SZAMUELY Ten years ago somebody or other declared that the 1960s would be the decade of Africa. Many people took this quite seriously. But alas, the only......