10 FEBRUARY 1973, page 11

J. Enoch Powell On The Great American Illusion

The United States has just succeeded in terminating — so far as itself is concerned — the most humiliating war not merely in its own history but in that of most Western nations......

Potato Crop

Auberon Waugh Birchwood John Banville (Secker and Warburg £2). The Famished Land Elizabeth Byrd (Macmillan £2.95). Two novels within a month about the Irish potato famine......