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as a British Minister is to Parliament. Even under Ar a

personally honest presidents such as Truman (IN and Eisenhower there were scandals: Mr. Bolles 1104 discusses them in a gritty prose crammed with „Olin, figures and unfamiliar names likely to deter all , figu but the most determined students of the Ameri-. , can political scene. The Operators, by Frank Gibney (Gollancz, 21s.), suggests that not only th Sherman Adamses and the Goldlines are corrupt but all those humbler Americans who fiddle their expense accounts, diddle the tax collector and tell

fibs in advertisements. No more elegantly written 'lid than the Bolles book, it conies a little nearer e

home and occasionally achieves a sort of read- fr%ent 'ability.