19 FEBRUARY 1960, page 24

State Of The Union

TEN thousand Americans, one reads, toured Soviet Russia last year. From a friend who had it 'straight from the Embassy people' I have just heard that in the last three months......

Ubiquitous And Divine

From Caesar to Arthur. By Geoffrey Ashe. (Collins, 21s.) GIBBON, after describing events in Britain in the fifth century, has a note in which he says—'I owe it to myself, and to......