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Congratulations on your clear and straightforward cover article on Canada's 14th Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson [April 19]. Like most Canadians, I am extremely proud of our new P.M., and it was very gratifying to read your excellent article on his career. It was the first time I...
∙EUROPE. Political integration of Europe would "inevitably end in foreign domination" of the Continent. It would, in any case, be "incompatible with the rights and duties of the French Republic" to surrender sovereignty to a supranational Parliament, which De Gaulle disdainfully likened to an "Areopagus," the supreme court of...
Close to Melville. Nolan describes the framework of his art as "deep space" or "man in an extreme environment." He could just as well be defining the history of Australia itself. Like the U.S. Wild West, Australia's vast mid-continental frontier has been a breeder of legends. And always the theme is man against terrifying odds. It may be drought, heat or the devastating loneliness of an outback town; the protagonist may be a gold digger, convict, explorer or the legendary Aussie bandit, Ned Kelly, defying a continent...
Nolan's Young Monkey was inspired by a recent trip to Africa, but "in painting Africa I am certainly not ditching Australia. There are the same unfolding perspectives, vista upon vista. What I've done is to put the animal instead of the human in the landscape. The...
As if to rub the British Governor-General's nose in the federation's plight, burly Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky then rose to rail at Britain's "unparalleled treachery and deceit." Chin out, fists clenched, his voice trembling with anger, Welensky cried, "The interests of...