28 JANUARY 1949, page 9

Truman's Optimism

By EDWARD MONTGOMERY New York, January 21 W HEN Harry S. Truman stepped to the massed microphones yesterday to deliver his first Inaugural Address as elected President of the......

The Myth Of Charles I

By HUGH TREVOR-ROPER O N January 3oth, 1649, King Charles I was executed, and cries of horror arose from an outraged world. There had been revolutions before, and kings had been......