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Unprincipled Art

The Art and Practice of Diplomacy. By Sir Charles Webster. (Chatto, 30s.) WHY does most diplomatic history seem so dull? .Diplomacy today, after all, touches us nearly, and it......

Ends Of The Earth

MICHAEL KENNEY'S A Spanish Tapestry (Cohen and West, 25s.) is a first-rate account of life at the present day in two widely separated parishes in Castile—one on the high sierra,......