6 SEPTEMBER 1969, page 6

Germany

Election diary MALCOLM RUTHERFORD Bonn—The West German general election campaign, now in full swing, reminds one of nothing so much as the British cam- paign of 1964, just as......

West Indies

The country club affair GEOFFREY WAGNER Port-of-Spain, Trinidad—For most of the long summer the 'sunny Caribbean' goes to sleep under sheets of comic-opera rain, punctuated by......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator', 4 September I869—The Master of the Mint. Sir J. F. W. Herschel, sends to the Times a long letter on Mr. Lowe's proposed reform in the coinage. His view......