Arthur Schlesinger insists that neither he nor Henry Kissinger has ‘any recollection’ of that evening at the Harvard International Seminar. How I wish I could have overheard the ponderous discussion during which these two men, both congested by a lifetime of apologetics, agreed on this now classic line of defence. ‘Statements allegedly made nearly forty years ago’ cannot be expected to be remembered by such busy fellows, who are not too busy to recall with crystal­line clarity that they would certainly have denied making them. So it goes. I sympathise with Schlesinger almost as much as with Mervyn Jones in this instance, because the task of keeping pace with his own protean story is indeed a daunt­ing one.

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A Hitch In Time is one of the Children's Film Foundation movies and would be good to see it again, along with others from this company. Problem is that they never seem to be on the telly now. What we can say is that Hitch goes on to discuss how he learned from his dejected father — let go by his beloved Senior Service, denied a decent pension, emotionally adrift without the empire he’d long fought for —“what it is to feel disappointed and betrayed by your ‘own’ side”. If you can get over the wonderful Pat Troughton being a time traveler who isn't Doctor Who driving a time machine that isn't the TARDIS then this is the nostalgia filled British overactathon for you! Wolfe is “safe” territory: glib conservative humorist sends up naive sixties idealists but misses the obvious “snigger potential” at Reaganite tables. Desert Storm ought to have been “safe”, too — the LRB would presumably have liked more in this antiwar vein throughout the 2000s — but on close inspection some of the post-2002 “trouble” was brewing in Hitchens’s disdain for the isolationism of America’s antiwar leftists circa 1991:

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Except for a fistful of Trotskyists, all those attending the rally in Lafayette Park last weekend were complaining of the financial cost of the war and implying that the problems of the Middle East were none of their concern. I found myself reacting badly to the moral complacency of this. Given the history and extent of US engagement in the region, some regard for it seems obligatory for American citizens. However ill it may sound proceeding from the lips of George Bush, internationalism has a clear advantage over the language of America First. A Ghodi wearing an equally beautiful costume drawing a decorated carriage can also be provided for the post wedding ceremony known as the Vidai. This ceremony symbolizes a new journey for the bride as she leaves her parents, her friends and family members. Hitch-in-Time respects the emotional moments of this ceremony and allows you to take as much time as needed. So wise, wasn't he? Good to see his love for Dubya Bush has belatedly come to be shared by the rest of the liberal establishment.

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With consummate irony, there’s been a “major” outbreak of Covid in Stanley (50+ cases, currently; none requiring the hospital) the week before all remaining travel/quarantine regulations were scheduled to be finally lifted. Hey ho. An aesthetically faultless movie could be made in perfect conformity with all the rules and requirements of the Hays Office, as long as there was no Hays Office. I forget how exactly his reasoning for the continued occupation went. Something about the 101st being the only bastion fighting for secular values, when the military was doing anything but that, whatever one said about those allayed against them (who were definitely religious but he didn't seem to ask why). Like most CFF films I've seen, this is cheap and cheerful stuff, consisting of a series of little sketches in different time periods, with a young Jeff Rawle popping up as a perennial antagonist, all ancestors of the school history teacher. Troughton is the main draw for this - not exactly reprising his Doctor Who persona, but… Kennedy made a Lot of enemies. And those enemies eventually did away with him. Here is JFK more or less signing his own death warrant. He was assassinated less than half a year later.The two young leads playing schoolfriends Paul and Fiona (Michael McVey and Pheona McLellan) do well and come across engagingly… On their arrival they are welcomed and received by the bride’s family. In his travels with the barati the groom rides upon an elephant or a beautiful horse know as the Ghodi. The Ghodi is adorned with decorations and ornaments. As the Barati travels along with the groom there is singing, dancing and the excitement of the dholi drummer.