1 JANUARY 1954, page 14

Until Recently Peers Of The Realm Wishing To Travel To

America were spared most of the difficulties and vexations which must be endured by the ordinary Briton in quest of visa, this courteous usage being based on their status as......

Love From A Stranger

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Archie John Wavell Had In His Character The Kind Of

great- ness which does not often—unless its possessor happens to be a creative artist—lead to worldly success. This was in any case a commodity for which he showed few signs of......

Every Year About This Time I Receive An Annual Report

from my spy in South America. He has not been idle during 1953, crossing the Transandean Railway between the Argentine and of the very few white men who have visited, without......

A Spectator's Notebook

W HEN, on June 19th, two citizens of a democratically governed Republic to which we are bound by ties of friendship, debts of gratitude and community of interests were executed......

The Achilles Heel

N Europe and in Asia, the policy of the Western Powers t, is still based on the principle, defined by Mr. Kennan -e - in 1947, as the " firm containment designed to confront is......

Antony's Elbow Ever Since That Beau Sabreur, Mr. Osbert...

nearly cut the top off one of my fingers with his broadsword during an undergraduate production of King Lear, 1 have taken a keen interest in stage fights. Mr. Michael Redgrave,......