Who's The Authentic Voice?
But if Lady Cromer is to be forgiven for her dotty gushings, what are we to make of our long-serving and most experienced man in Paris, Mr Christopher Soames? He is not at all......
Permissibly Dropped Brick
B rand-new ambassadors ought always to be a llowed to drop at least one brick, and their Wives (particularly if they, the wives, are Pleasant and attractive and prepared to have......
Room For Commonsense
In order to reduce the risk of a man going Mad, men rely upon machines and Mechanical systems to operate what are grandly called 'fail-safe' procedures so that a nuclear......
Grossly Improper
Is that what you are telling the French, Mr Soames? Naughty boy. You know it isn't true. You really ought not to tell the French things like that; they might think you were......
. The 'spectator's Notebook
It was reassuring that, when the North American Air Defence Command, one of its clerks having fed the wrong bit of tape into a telex machine (which is a thing I have done more......
Dam Bad Show
'A few weeks before ground was broken for the high dam in 1960, the distinguished Egyptian hydrologist, Dr Abdel Aziz Ahmed, warned the Institute of Civil Engineers in London......
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