Phoenix And Ashes

AMERICA MURRAY KEMPTON New York—At the Waldorf-Astoria last wet • there was a businessmen's conference on world hunger in the Grand Ballroom (style of Fragonard), while the......

The Tyrant's Plea

THE LAW R. A. CLINE The role of Cassandra, not a cheerful one, affords still less satisfaction and still greater melancholy when the facts turn out even worse than predicted.......

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Mr Thorpe's Pilgrim Band

POLITICAL. COMMENTARY ALAN WATKINS Some years ago, in America, I would be asked perfunctorily about the operation of the British political system at local level. My questioners,......