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Panacea For Peace

World Revolution in ,the Cause of Peace. By Lionel Curtis. (Basil Blackwell 7s. 6d.) AMERICAN leaders in 1787—so runs Mr. Curtis's argument—solved North America's fuffdamental......

A Wayward Favourite

Great ViWers. By Hester W. Chapman. (Seeker and Warburg. 18s.) ONCE again a distinguished writer of fiction enters the frequently trodden paths of seventeenth-century historical......

Russia Ten Years Ago

The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia Vol. II. 1936-41. By Max Beloff. (Oxford University Press. 21s.) IN completing the second, and much longer, volume of this book, Mr. Beloff......