25 DECEMBER 1953, page 8

Botany Bay

By J. P. B OTANY BAY is to Australia what the Tower of London is to England or (more accurately) what Plymouth Rock is to the United States. There, one can truly say, it all......

The Course Of Empire

By D. W. BROGAN, I N the last number of Time magazine to reach me, one of the main foreign stories is headed " Great Britain—Decline or Fall ? " and it is illustrated by a map......