World: If It Had Been the U.S

IMAGINE the United States to be angered by the advent of a left-wing government in Norway," Britain's New Statesman magazine suggested last week. "This government is sharply told that the internal reforms which it plans are not its private affair, but also concern its allies. It is advised to curb the local press, and a manifesto by a group of writers and scientists is described as intolerable. Anxiety is expressed over the ease with which Russian tourists cross the frontier, which — a Note suggests — would be better guarded by U.S. troops....

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