3 JUNE 1960, page 23

Serov's Finest Hour

MY left-wing friends, I generally observe, see n much more ready to take a lenient view of th e , wholesale deportation by the Soviet governme n ` of seven small nationalities......

Kinder View

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THE new kind of traveller needs a new kind of guide. Everybody now knows that the Parthenon is in Athens and that Maxim's is in Paris, and how many stars each is likely to be......