Race is almost as uncomfortable a fact of life in the United Kingdom as in the United States. In 1967 a report, Racial Discrimination in England, sponsored by P.E.P. (Political and economic Planning) provided concise, sophisticated documentation of discrimination in employment, housing and automobile insurance.
“There are two things a revolutionary has to watch out for:” Anh Hai informed us in one of his more discursive moods, “tigers and snakes.” (There was some momentary confusion, as Mike initially thought the Vietnamese word was “monkey” rather than “tiger,” and for an
Leningrad, USSR There is something about this city that endears it most of any Soviet city to foreigners. Even the Russians say that Leningrad is a “western” city, founded as it was more than 250 years ago by Czar Peter the Great as his
Moscow, USSR “Moscow has changed very much in the past few years,” said the cab driver, a World War II veteran of the Moscow battle, as we sped along the expressway from Sheremetevo airport to Red Square. Such as there, he gestured, a new
In 1968, rumors circulated in Westminster that the new Greek military dictatorship had an M.P. on its payroll. Gordon Bagier, a Labor M.P. who had praised the new regime at a press conference in Athens in April, 1968, and who was active in it urging
