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...doctrinaire views on a declining, disinterested readership, the weekly sought a successor who would not be so preoccupied with Labor Party parliamentary infighting. A selection committee of the magazine's board members and editorial staffers interviewed six candidates and sought ratification from both the full board and the Statesman chapter of the National Union of Journalists. The overwhelming choice, announced last week: Anthony Howard, 38, the weekly's assistant editor. Howard promised that the Statesman "will remain a paper of the left," but he is expected to reverse the Statesman's position opposing Britain's Common...
...buying and selling inappropriate property, defying the blitz by moving into London. Both died in their 80s after the war. Probably out of modesty, he sketches his later life very lightly, discussing his novels and short stories briefly and barely mentioning both his career as critic for the New Statesman and the major study of Balzac he has worked on for years. Now approaching his parents' great age, Pritchett looks at himself: "A bald man, his fattish face supported by a valance of chins. I am seventy, and in my father's phrase, 'I would like...
...Arguments Against Orwell" D.A.N. Jones, a longtime contributor to the New Statesman, presents the only openly anti-Orwell opinion. Jones' arguments boil down to the complaint that Orwell was a spoiler who despised committees and wrote "unhelpful articles...
...trip may see him again in Hangchow, the Chairman's usual retreat from the icy Mongolian winds that sweep down on the capital in February. But the man who will deal with the President on the issues is Chou, a brilliant, subtle, ruthless and endlessly flexible statesman who is at the apex of his extraordinary career...
Already the guerrillas have split into factions, according to India's Sunanda Datta-Ray in the Statesman. The elite Mujib Bahini, named after the sheik, has now begun to call itself the "Mission," and one of its commanders, Ali Ashraf Chowdurdy, 22, told Datta-Ray: "We will never lay down our arms until our social ideals have been realized." Another guerrilla put the matter more bluntly: "For us the revolution is not over. It has only begun." So far the Mujib Bahini has done a commendable job of protecting the Biharis, the non-Bengali Moslems who earned Bengali wrath...