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The Foreign Office And Its Masters

WHITEHALL COMMENTARY GEOFFREY McDERMOTT The Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office is a powerful man. But just how powerful? How much real influence does he have on the......

Summer Diary

AMERICA A. JOHN ADAMS For the quarter of a million Englishmen who 6ount New York their home, summer is a time for admiring anew the boundless energy of the American middle......

Dauphins Prepare

FRANCE MARC ULLMANN Paris—In France the Sphinx has two faces. No longer do we weigh up, analyse, interpret and balance the sayings and silences of General de Gaulle alone. There......