Landing At Northolt On The Return Journey, I Noticed Two

little flocks of green plover on the grass beside the runway. Our wing-tip almost passed over the nearest ones as we taxied past None of them moved or showed the slightest......

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Russia's Move

I F the sudden Russian decision to send Mr. Malik to take his turn as president of •the Security Council of the United Nations had no other good effect it at least reminded the......

Driving Down The Unter Den Linden I Passed A Pile

of rubble where (if I identified the spot correctly) a jeweller's shop used to stand. I remembered very clearly buying a wristwatch in this shop thirteen years ago, and how the......

Western Berlin Is Often Referred To, Reasonably Enough,...

island. But I have noticed before that, whereas true islands breed in their inhabitants a certain insouciance towards the surrounding sea, these figurative, land-bound enclaves......

If During The Last Five Years Anybody Had Prophesied That

the next major military campaign would be won by infantry against an enemy with complete command of the sea and air, he would not have been taken very seriously. But, though the......

The Russian War Memorial—not The Slightly Unstable Statue...

soldier in the fiergarten, but the new one in Eastern Berlin—is a characteristic specimen of Soviet monumental art. It consists of an enormous sunken terrace (which may sink......

A Spectator's Notebook

A T Gatow on Monday morning I watched fifty-four Yaks, in successive flights of nine, peel off and go down to land on an airfield just out of sight over the boundary of the......