14 JANUARY 1944, page 18

Modern Italy

IT has become a commonplace to hear English people refer to the fact that a generation has grown up in Italy which cannot remember the time before Fascism-; it is equally true,......

George Adam Smith

Tins record of the long and varied life of_ Sir George Adam Smi may well receive a welcome both from his old students in Glasg and Aberdeen, now scattered around the Seven Seas,......

" Iii Fares The Land "

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