6 OCTOBER 1967, page 6

Myth America

TABLE TALK DENIS BROGAN I'm pleased with the news of the discovery of a runic record of a Norwegian expedition to Oklahoma in the eleventh century. Why it should have gone round......

Looking-glass War

TEACHERS JOHN PEARCE Many a trade union, rallying its members to the flag, which often turns out to be a flag of con- venience, booms sonorously the old battle-cry: 'In union......

An Athens Diary

GREECE MICHAEL LLEWELLYN-SMITH Athens—It is ironic that two of the three people who have come to represent 'resistance' in the eyes of foreigners are regarded with consider-......