Consistency amid Change

I first came to China in 1982, three years after the reform and opening policy enabled individuals as well as tour groups to travel within the country, My first stop upon disembarking the ship I＇d sailed from Hong Kong to Shanghai was the local police station. There, a local official listed the places I intended visiting on an internal ＂passport.＂ Second was the bank, which exchanged my U.S, dollars for Foreign Exchange Certificates （FEC） - the currency mandatory for buying goods at the state Friendship stores.     

Green,Historical Forward-looking Jincheng

SHANXI Province,at thecenter of the Loess Pla-teau,is the acknowledgedcradle of the Chinese na-tion.Jincheng City in     

Ministers in Ulster: The Machinery of Direct Rule

Lord Windlesham Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, was until recently Minister of State for Northern Ireland. This article is the revised text of a lecture he gave at The New University of Ulster on 26 April 1973. The lecture was delivered as one of a series of six, arranged by the Department of Social Administration at The New University, which have since been published as Occasional Papers. I would like to acknowledge the kindness of Professor H. Griffiths in agreeing so readily to the proposal to reproduce Lord Windlesham's contribution to this series of lectures in 'Public Administration'. (Hon. Editor.)     

Britain and the Middle East

The address that follows was given before a joint meeting ofthe Royal African Society and the Royal Commonwealth Societyon December 4 1958. Mr. Richard Goold- Adams took the Chair     

The Last Nine Years in Tanganyika

Princess Alice, President of the Royal African Society, waspresent to hear this address given by the former Governor ofTanganyika to a joint meeting of the Royal African Society andthe Royal Commonwealth Society on October 2 1958, Colonel SirCharles Ponsonby Bt. was in the chair.