22 MAY 1959, page 26

Ends Of The Earth

'CRINA is a country of 500,000,000 slaves ruled by a single God and nine million Puritans,' trumpeted the Red Chinese Minister of Com- munications, Chang Po-Chun, during the......

Truly Human

A DISTINCTIVE feature of the Renaissance as a period is that men thought of themselves as living in it; the joke about Cecil B. de Mille's picture (`Men of the Middle Ages, let......