American Commanders Often Strike The British As Curiously...
suspicious in their attitude not only to their allies but to each other. General MacArthur and—even more con- spicuously—the late General Stilwell exemplified this trait in an......
A Spectator's Notebook
A SUPREME Commander should be a big man even if he cannot be a great one, and I find it difficult to excuse General Mark Clark for his failure to tell Field- Marshal Alexander......
The Recipients Of Official Questionnaires Often Find The...
they are required to answer irrelevant or impertinent or difficult to understand. None of these charges can be levelled against the last item on a list of questions sent to......
Good Though The British Are At Coming Up To Scratch,
it was almost-too much to expect that the letter to the Straits Times criticising Mr. Malcolm Macdonald for appearing at a concert without his dinner jacket shquld have been......
Wage Sabotage?
L ONG before the present Conservative Government came to power a few voices prophesying industrial war were raised within the trade union movement. Among the - first—if not the......
The Secretary Of The Co-educational Conference, Writing...
to report favourably on his experience of a measure of State control for independent schools, finishes his letter with the words: " And, anyhow, who is there in his heart does......
Some Years Ago A Slightly Eccentric Friend Of Mine, Shortly
after joining one of the big firms in Burma, was sent up country on a long tour in company with a senior member of the firm whom he did not much like. The old hand changed into......
The Prix Strix, Which Is Awarded Periodically For...
felicitous performances in popular journalism, is this week divided between (a) the sub-editor who put the headline " JUNGLE- MAN MOVES " on the announcement that the C.-in-C.......
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