20 MARCH 1964, page 29

Downward Spiral

WHEN Aristide Briand recalled Talleyrand's tart observation that 'war is too serious a matter to be left to soldiers' in the middle of a war which had conspicuously baffled all......

Double Poem From Attica

We need nothing, to salute diminutive silences (Lapsed conversation, mute street, Flowery hollows between the chimes of a clock) But the sudden peace of themselves. Touch of a......