21 JANUARY 1966, page 5

Mr. Brown's Italian Lesson

From OSBERT HASTINGS ROME I RI was an improvisation. Mr. George Brown's British equivalent, the national finance corpora- tion,which he is shortly to announce,is clearly not so;......

Melissa Lifts The Lace Curtain

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN F OR once the television news led with a piece of immediacy—here and now. Not a pic- torial handout of Rusk descending from an aero- plane, Erhard being......