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How Much Atonement Is Enough? The Bombing Must Be Allowed As At Least Part-payment: Those Of Our Young People Who Are Concerned About The Moral Problem Posed By The Allied Air Offensive Should At Least Consider The Moral Problem That Would Have Been Posed If The German Civilian Population Had Not Suffered At All.

One Way Or Another, All The Poets Of The Thirties And Forties Reacted To Auden, Either By Rejecting Him Or Trying To Absorb Him.

In The Twelfth Century The Basque Fishermen Of Biarritz Used To Hunt Whales With Deadly Efficiency. When The Whales Sensibly Moved Away, The Basques Chased Them Further And Further, With The Consequence That The Fishermen Of Biarritz Discovered America Before Columbus Did. This Is A Matter For Local Pride But On A Larger View It Is Not Quite So Stunning, Since With The Possible Exception Of The Swiss Everybody Discovered America Before Columbus Did.

The British Secret Service Was Staffed At One Point Almost Entirely By Alcoholic Homosexuals Working For The Kgb

My Niece Is - Her Name Is Sasha, Is Currently Learning Russian At Melbourne University And I Look Forward To The Day When I Can Talk To Her About Pushkin.