11 SEPTEMBER 1942, page 8

Washington At War

By D. W. BROGAN W HEN I first saw Washington in the golden days of Calvin Coolidge, the Plaza that stretches from the Union Station to the Capitol was encumbered with odd......

Music And Politics

By W. J. TURNER DECENTLY, in these pages, Mr. Dyneley Hussey referred to ni two new works, by Alan Bush and Benjamin Britten respec- tively, as avowedly "political symphonies,"......