John O'Sullivan in the Chicago Sun-Times - U.S. discovering that not everyone loves a winner:
In the early halcyon days of the United Nations, politicians used to make frequent and respectful references to a mysterious place called "the bar of world opinion." Peter Simple, the London Daily Telegraph's resident satirist, used to depict it as a cheap dive on the Lower East Side of New York where every sort of crook and lowlife gathered to carouse, fight and plot his next caper.O'Sullivan also tackles the recent survey results from the "Pew Global Attitudes Project" and observes that for some curious reason the pollsters skipped India in their frenzied world opinion sampling.
Many years later I visited the UN and discovered that Simple's description was not wholly false--though he had omitted the crucial detail that the crooks and lowlifes all had diplomatic immunity.
