28 JUNE 1968, page 15

Old Friends

PETER VANSITTART My Friends Wizen Young Brigit Patmore edited by Derek Patmore (Heinemann 35s) Grand Tour Today William Sansom (Hogarth 30s) The Ghost of June Rupert Croft-Cooke......

Ball And Branch

JOCK BRUCE-GARDYNE One of the charges often levelled at the Johnson administration is that it has 'lost interest in Europe.' In reality the Kennedy administra- tion's......

The Protestants Books

J. H. PLUMB We rarely realise how completely steeped we are in western culture : born in it, bred in it, edu- cated in it, we accept it and believe in it, and seldom give it the......