17 JANUARY 1969, page 18

Past Masters

C. C. WRIGLEY Renascent Africa Nnamdi Azikiwe (Frank Cass 65s) Professor Heussler is the obituarist of the Colonial Service, and it is hard to imagine a more attractive or......

Simple Sampson

KEITH KYLE Whatever became of James Roosevelt, ma's boy, Erich Mende, the former rot' Vice-Chan- cellor of West Germany, and Sir Eric Wyndham White, Britain's gift to Gsrr? Mr......

English Icarus

KENNETH ALLSOP 'We live by Death's negligence,' a nineteen year old airman entered in his journal in the summer of 1943. The procrastination was soon repaired. One year later......