12 JANUARY 1974, page 22

Around The World

Kay Dick Sir Horace Rumbold: Porkait of a Diplomat Martin Gilbert (Heinemann £8.00) Horace Monta g ue Rumbold, ninth Baronet (1869-1941), the subject of Martin Gilbert's......

Our Favourite German

Patrick Cosgrave Rommel Charles Douglas-Home (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £2.95) Rommel, Field Marshal Auchinleck wrote, was neither a magician nor a bogeyman. In the same message......