5 DECEMBER 1970, page 10

Middle East

Controlling an epidemic STANLEY JOHNSON It is ironic that by far the most sensational - outtsreak of cholera, at least up until the time of the Pakistan disaster, should have......

Empire

Minerva's owl DENIS BROGAN `Minerva's owl flies only in the dusk.' This phrase, obscure to the Anglo-Saxon mind, is in fact a lot clearer than many of the dicta of Georg......