12 JUNE 1964, page 27

Stockpot

ALTHOUGH this is Mr. Malamud's second collec- tion of short stories, there is a makeshift look about it. Perhaps this is because he has had to include work that goes back as far......

On To Damascus

Armageddon 1918. By Cyril Falls. (Wcidenfeld and Nicolson, 27s. 6d.) Armageddon 1918, in the `Gicat Battles of History' series, is the story of the final campaign in Palestine......

The Economy

The Rootes Deal By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Ir is always a shock to a socialist to be re- minded that capitalism is an international system— that there is nothing to prevent a......