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Knowledge. The Americans, say the British, do not know the world. Indeed, they did not-and some appalling blunders resulted. U.S. education is ill-suited for foreign affairs, 19th century style. The educated Briton is reared for debate and negotiation as the Spartan for the spear. A good British Foreign Office man can, by effortless intuition, absorb the essence of a political crisis from a bubble of cocktail conversation. Americans will never be good at that. They will set up a million-dollar study project to find out what a Briton would learn by asking a girl...
...protect itself from the black nationalism of the Gold Coast and the white nationalism of South Africa. Last week, barely half a year since the House of Commons gave the ambitious project its blessing, the Central African Federation was jarred by racial unrest among black man, Boer and Briton. 69,000 Boers. Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, the wiry little surgeon who first conceived the notion of lumping the Rhodesias and Nyasaland into one big Central Africa (TIME. Sept. 21), was beset on both sides by black and white extremes. In next month's general election, Huggins is virtually certain...
...answer to Driberg by another Briton, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...almost every Briton knows, the school called St. Trinian's is a strange, spooky, neo-Gothic institution based somewhere in England. At St. Trinian's, gargoylish women in high-collared dresses and spindle-shanked girls in mussy black tunics go blithely through term after term of arson, mayhem and murder. For sheer energy, the St. Trinian's girl has no match...
...basic question is not the trite old "Who Killed Cock Robin?" but the more modern "Am I the Sparrow?" The hero (Ralph Richardson) is a white-collar Briton who comes chirruping home from his desk at the bank one Monday to find that it is not Monday at all-it is Tuesday. Somehow, 24 hours of his life have got lost. To make matters worse, a man was murdered on Richardson's psychological day off and a powder train of explosive evidence leads straight to his door...