15 SEPTEMBER 1979, page 8

In The Head Of Old Europe

Tim Garton Ash Warsaw Across the Oder, down the long monotonous road from Berlin to Poznan —straight as a line in a Prussian ledger — the West German Volkswagen pursues the......

The Sardinian Paradox

Peter Nichols Rome Everybody must have had enough of Poland for a while. The Vatican's Wojtyla phenomenon is now being given its historical frame by the relentlessly detailed......