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IMAGINE the United States to be angered by the advent of a left-wing government in Norway," Britain's New Statesman magazine suggested last week. "This government is sharply told that the internal reforms which it plans are not its private affair, but also concern its allies. It is advised to curb the local press, and a manifesto by a group of writers and scientists is described as intolerable. Anxiety is expressed over the ease with which Russian tourists cross the frontier, which - a Note suggests - would be better guarded by U.S. troops. Though the Norwegians claim that they...
Thus, through-the-looking-glass, the New Statesman imagines what world reaction would have been if the U.S. had been in Russia's role vis-a-vis Czechoslovakia. The usually anti-American magazine suggested, of course, that the U.S. was not unnecessarily beyond this sort of behavior, particularly if the country in question were as near to the U.S. as Czechoslovakia is to Russia. Still, the New Statesman came down hard on the Russians: "One has only to consider this scenario to see how in-defensible-in terms of any principles ever upheld by men of integrity, including that...
Jacob Blaustein, LL.D. former U.N. delegate, co-founder of the American Oil Co. Rare blend of statesman, industrialist and humanitarian...
...image among French voters. Similarly, the candidates from the right?Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing?for the moment, at least, seem to have little appeal to French voters. The man that some politicians in Paris were mentioning last week as a possible successor to De Gaulle is a vintage statesman who served well in some of the most dif ficult moments of the Fourth Republic: Pierre Mendès-France...
Heretofore, Pritchett's eminence has derived from his travel articles and books, his suavely ironic short stories and his book reviews (mostly for Britain's New Statesman), which make him a rival of Edmund Wilson as the best literary critic in the English language. Now an angry old man of 67, Pritchett vents some of the redbrick ferocity of early Osborne or Amis-though with more elegance-as he writes of the genteel poverty and violent lower-middle-class life that he survived...