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Upper-class Nations

Topical Comment. By Roy Harrod. (Macmillan, Beyond the Welfare State. By Gunnar Myrdal. (Duckworth, 21s.) THESE two books might be read together for the appealing contrast they......

Lucid Disillusion

Introduction to the Philosophy of History. By Raymond Aron. Translated by George Irwin. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 36s.) M. ARON'S book has had a place prepared for it in recent......