25 MAY 1956, Page 34

Three Years Ago

munity and particularly with French intern Calvocoressi again had the collaboration THE year 1953 is the last in the.series to covered by Mr. Peter Calvocoressi in bi5 volumes of the Survey of International AL,0(1'0 1953 (Oxford University Press for ROI' Institute of International Affairs, 48s.). Ivir' Calvocoressi was chiefly concerned with the Stalin, with the dilemma presented to the West politics, and finally with the complex of Pr°I). lems in the Near and Middle East. Mr' impact on the outer, world of the death, t by the proposed European Defence COltiai , Dr. F. C. Jones for the section on the East, which covers the Korean ArmIstic!' though he deals himself with South-East 03 and particularly with the crucial develoPmelit5 in that year in Indo-China. Marshal Bulganin's recent declaration on Soviet policy towards Latin America gives a topical interest to the section on that region by Mr. George Peale' This is the first volume to deal with Plifi America since that for 1947-48. off

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