21 FEBRUARY 1970, page 9

Viewpoint

Overheard in Beirut GEORGE GALE Journalists suffer from an incurable (because it is essential) disease of their occupation : they are compulsive dramatists. They see plots, even......

Spectator's Notebook

J. W. M. THOMPSON For some reason the historians of the last war don't seem to have gone very deeply into the fact, a remarkable one in view of what happened in the 1914-18......