Korea In Perspective
I T would perhaps increase the effectiveness of the non- Communist Powers, and reduce the effectiveness of the endless Communist attempts to confuse the Korean issue, if it were......
A Spectator's Notebook
VERY distinguished American was arguing that it was essential to deny Formosa to the Chinese Communists because of its strategic importance ; it threatened (he pointed out)......
• * * * Although He Was Only 37 When
he was killed last Saturday, I think Ian Morrison was what is generally understood by a great man, and I am quite certain that he would have been remembered as one had he lived.......
The Bulletin Had Been Posted Outside Clarence House. In An
hour or less " Princess " would be in the headlines of the next edition of all the evening papers, and the citizens would be able to satisfy their curiosity without laying out a......
Three Years Ago The Whole Country Suddenly Ran Out Of
plough- shares and the autumn sowing was held up. This year Whitehall has organised, or anyhow failed to avert, a sack famine. Tho Farmer and Stockbreeder pointed out some time......
* * * Army Form B199a (revised 1949) Is A
tremendously complicated document which all officers are required to complete in order to bring their personal records at the War Office up to date. It includes a photostat copy......
Even The Most God-like Commanders Are Not, In Practice, Im-
mortal, and I should have thought it would be a good thing...for the United Nations to appoint a deputy commander-in-chief to their forces in Korea. I imagine it might not be an......
In The Territorial Camp From Which I Have Just Returned
the civilian barman employed in the officers' mess was drawing, thanks to the Catering Wages Act, considerably more pay than the colonel. This, I believe, is what is known as......