A Spectator's Notebook
E IGHT weeks after the fighting started, the commanding officers of the units who are to go to Korea from Hongkong received . (on a Saturday) their orders to mobilise. Most of......
A Neighbour Of Mine, Who Got A George Cross And
a George Medal for taking the more abstruse types of German mine to pieces during the last war, complains that every time the international horizon darkens his friends start......
I Wonder What Has Happened To The Gentleman Who Became
premier of South Korea when Syngman Rhee was made president. I know nothing of his attainments or capabilities, but his name was General Bum Suk Lee and in some ways it seems......
One Swallow Does Not Make A Summer, Nor Fourteen Channel
swimmers a Silly Season. The world has become such an alarming place (or perhaps our capacity for being alarmed has so much increased) that the Press no longer allows itself......
Madame Sun Yat-sen's Invitation To Pandit Nehru, Though...
been refused, is likely to strengthen a contemporary belief to which one sees and hears increasingly frequent references. This belief, which, if it ever gets a name, will......
Socialist Leadership
T HIS is not the best of times for exercises in party politics. Whatever the full repercussions of the Korean war may be, it is generally recognised that the situation is......
The Committee Which Has Reported On The Conditions Of...
ment of child actors seems to have done its job in a very sound and sensible way. The thing that interests me is the sudden rise, in recent years, of the standard of juvenile......
This Minor Muddle Doesn't Seem To Me To Matter In
the least. What does strike me as painfully characteristic of the standard of leadership which the British are getting from their present rulers is that it should take us two......
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