ABSTRACT
The memorial celebrations were over, in London, Paris, and Berlin, and the newspapers as ever were scraping for bits of features that would rival the color and the immediacy of the apparently overwhelming pictorial coverage by the television stations. Matthew Norman who has transferred his scabrous expertise from the Standard in London to the Guardian, equally hard up for relevant tid-bits. The record, Come On Lads, a collection of wartime songs, the Guardian’s report on it were, of course, both in the proper spirit of documenting the great War “like it was”: “It is potent stuff, and many old soldiers may not approve of the Legion’s involvement.” In the Sunday edition of the same newspaper, another correspondent, Paul Mansfield, finds himself in “a lovely little town on the banks of the Thu Bon river near Danang” when a Vietnamese teenager met a young American backpacker sitting in an outside cafe.
