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Confidential Doorman

George of the Ritz. By George Criticos, as told to George Viner. (Heinemann, 21s.) WHEN George Criticos, a Cretan waiter formed! of Shepheard's and the Therapia Palace Hotel ,......

Band Of Hope

WHAT sort of an organisation is the United Nations? A relic of the Second World War coali- tion, or the basis of a future Parliament of Man? A band of Big Brothers imposing......

Old Soldier

Wellingtonian Studies: Essays on the first Duke of Wellington. Edited by Michael Howard. (Wellington College, 7s.) THIS country is terrified of its generals becoming its......