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Note Of Despair

TIBOR SZAMIJELY Message from Moscow An Observer (Cape 32s) The anonymous author of Message from Moscow describes himself as a non- communist Western student who has spent the......

Books Slaughter And Derring-do

J. H. PLUMB Two well-known novelists, indeed two best sellers, have been attracted to the most dramatic period of European history when, between 1450 and 1550, the maritime......

Tory Achates

ROBERT BLAKE Atemoirs of a Conservative: 1. C. C. David- ,on's Memoirs and Papers 1910-37 Robert Rhodes James (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 84s) Lord Davidson was the intimate friend......