13 AUGUST 1948, page 7

Snow On Their Boots

By PETER FLEMING I think our lack of a land frontier partly explains our inability— which goes back much further than the Crimean War—ever to under- stand the Russians. Their......

The Advance Of Oil

By A. L. B. PHILIP Y ET another Middle-East oil concession has been put through. It covers an area of about two thousand square miles of what has been described as potentially......