19 JUNE 1982, page 7

The Weapons That Won

Patrick Desmond `W hat this country needs,' remarked Plehve, the Russian minister of the interior in 1903, 'is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution.' He was......

America On The Sidelines

Nicholas von Hoffman p ompous in the east, dotty in the west were the American reactions to the news that the fighting had stopped in the n 'citith Atlantic. The New York Times......