7 JANUARY 1966, page 3

For Britain, Clearly A Contentious New Year Was Ahead, With

not only a general election likely but also a contest for the Oxford chair of poetry (between Robert Lowell and Edmund Blunden) in prospect. Lord Attlee celebrated his......

The New Year Honours Contained No Hereditary Titles And...

to no one's surprise) entailed no by-election. Mr. Heath, on tour around Asia with an entourage of journalists, adjusted his itinerary to include Saigon. Mr. Wilson went no......

--portrait Of The Week— Enter 1966, Uncertainly: 'another...

deadly blow'? And yet the first days saw President Johnson's doves airborne around the globe, while the American bombers stayed grounded in Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh, alas, seemed......

Towards A Pax Russo-americana

A s this issue of the SPECTATOR goes to iipress, the pause in the American bomb- ing of North Vietnam continues and the Indo-Pakistani summit meeting enters its third day. The......

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