30 MAY 1970, page 6

America-1

The war on the home front MURRAY KEMPTON `You better send some ambulances. We killed some niggers.' (A Mississippi State Highway Patrolman after he and his col- leagues had......

Viewpoint

Elections I have known GEORGE GALE There were a few days before the war — in 1935, I suppose — when rival groups of young children ran around shouting out the name of the......

Left, Right . . .

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Every child, says Gilbert, shall Either be a Liberal Or a Conservative. Now Nature with new-fangled laws Children to back the Labour cause Doth curiously......

America

Old Glory up against it GEOFFREY WAGNER New York—When a symbol is severed from what it signifies, distortions result. This is the case with flag symbolism in America today, in......