* * * * It Is Nine Years Since I
was last in the Legation quarter of Peking, whose administration formally reverted to the Chinese authorities this week. The charming and commodious enclave was not at its best......
Greece First
y T was with something of the sick despair inspired by the acts I of aggression leading up to the war that the public read of the opening, on Christmas Eve of all days, of a new......
There Was A Time When Everybody Had His Or Her
bomb story ; today the same kind of conversational priority is accorded to our experiences with bureaucrats. But whereas bomb-stories usually had a happy ending for the......
I Feel Sorry For Academician Varga ; I Think He
has had bad luck. On December 4th he wrote for Pravda an article on " Inflation and Currency Reform in Capitalist Countries." At the time it seemed to the Editor a good, perhaps......
When, I Found Myself Wondering The Other Night, Do The
dead become funny? Someone—I think it was Mr. Handley—had just cracked a joke on the air about not wanting to be Nelson, " with a flock of pigeons in his hair and a Washdown......
A Spectator 's Notebook I T Has Never Been Entirely Clear
to me why we persist in starting the New Year on January tat. That corner of the planet which we inhabit presents at this season no symptoms whatsoever of rebirth, of renewal,......
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