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A Communist Withdraws

WHEN this book appeared in the United States more than a year ago, it was hailed by American critics as a document of first-class importance. Here was an intimate view of.......

Der Tolle Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka—His Life and Work. By Edith Hoffmann. (Faber and Faber. 25s.) Miss EDITH HOFFMANN has written the best study of a living painter that has appeared for many......

Science With Politics

THIS collection of essays takes its title from the inclusion of the text of a broadcast talk which Professor Haldane was to have made in 1934 as part of a series of talks on the......