The Week

• Once upon a time regicide was the most serious crime, and those who committed it risked isolation from the company of civilized states. Nowadays, it has been demonstrated, things are very different, and it is only a matter of days before the entire world cheerfully readjusts itself to dealing not with a young king and his first minister, but with the people who hauled them out into a courtyard and shot them in cold blood. Faisal, a legitimate and decent ruler, deserved, one would think, a show of international grief, and a boycott against his killers. He died 169 years to the day after the beginning of the French Revolution, when the Jacobinical devil was first unleashed. Then there were the Burkes, at least, who mobilized the moral sentiment of the world against the slaughterers of the French monarchy. Today there is only the UN, and John Foster Dulles, winging his way to Baghdad to talk things over with Robespierre.

• Who would have believed it could happen! Nikita Khrushchev is coming to New York; we shall actually see him, one day soon, landing at Idlewild, registering at a Manhattan hotel, and moving freely about under the protection of the New York police. Now is the time for all good men to get to work in each and every organization they belong to to lay plans for seeing to it that 1) he shall not be paid any implicit honors, and 2) he shall remember his time in New York as the most embarrassing and uncomfortable two days he ever spent. national review will pay $5.00 each for the ten best answers to the question: What to Do When Khrushchev comes to New York.

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• Once upon a time regicide was the most serious crime, and those who committed it risked isolation from the company of civilized states. Nowadays, it has been demonstrated, things are very different, and it is only a matter of days before the entire world cheerfully readjusts itself to dealing not with a young king and his first minister, but with the people who hauled them out into a courtyard and shot them in cold blood. Faisal, a legitimate and decent ruler, deserved, one would think, a show of international grief, and a boycott against his killers. He died 169 years to the day after the beginning of the French Revolution, when the Jacobinical devil was first unleashed. Then there were the Burkes, at least, who mobilized the moral sentiment of the world against the slaughterers of the French monarchy. Today there is only the UN, and John Foster Dulles, winging his way to Baghdad to talk things over with Robespierre.

• Who would have believed it could happen! Nikita Khrushchev is coming to New York; we shall actually see him, one day soon, landing at Idlewild, registering at a Manhattan hotel, and moving freely about under the protection of the New York police. Now is the time for all good men to get to work in each and every organization they belong to to lay plans for seeing to it that 1) he shall not be paid any implicit honors, and 2) he shall remember his time in New York as the most embarrassing and uncomfortable two days he ever spent. national review will pay $5.00 each for the ten best answers to the question: What to Do When Khrushchev comes to New York.