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...older Punch tradition by installing tartly satiric views on topical issues (and late deadlines to keep right up with them), brought in name contributors and able critics, all but abandoned the moss-grown cover for bright and varied modern ones. He even succeeded frequently in making Punch what Englishmen never expected the old humor magazine to be, i.e., funny. Last week, at 54, Editor Muggeridge announced that he was resigning. Reason: there is nothing left to change if the magazine is still to be Punch...
...hundred years ago next month, a small force of intrepid Englishmen stormed into the sprawling Red Fort of Old Delhi and thereby broke the back of what the British still call the Indian Mutiny. (Some Indians now call it the "First War of Independence.") Last week, as the Republic of India celebrated its tenth Independence Day, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke to his people from the Red Fort's symbolic ramparts. Said he: "We have completed one journey of freedom. The second is just to begin. We have to understand that we may stumble and fall. When a people...
Many Americans and Englishmen have an idea that liberty was born with Magna Carta and grew steadily to maturity through the centuries. The Lion and the Throne exposes this fallacy. When Coke (rhymes with hook) was born (1552), the purpose of three centuries of English monarchs had been to ignore Magna Carta...
...century and a half later the Massachusetts Assembly was to declare the Stamp Act "against Magna Carta and the natural rights of Englishmen and, therefore, according to the Lord Coke, null and void." And it was to give effect to this same manner of ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court itself was brought into existence...
...newspapers more gravely than their American counterparts. British newspapers seldom win a libel suit; U.S. papers win at least as many as they lose. In the U.S., keyhole-peeping columnists are rarely sued for running exaggerated or even fabricated accounts of celebrities' loves and lapses. But privacy-proud Englishmen do not treat unfavorable stories as unworthy of notice-not to the extent of refraining from a promising libel suit...