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Moments Of Crisis

D. C. WATT The Middle East in Revolution Humphrey Trevelyan (Macmillan 65s) Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, Lord Trevelyan as he now is, was the British ambassador in Cairo at the time......

Innocent Abroad

JEAN FRANCO Selected Poems Pablo Neruda edited by Nathaniel Tarn (Cape 55s) 'To be born in a house made of trees freshly felled from the forest is not the same as being born in......

Little And Late

JOEL HURSTFIELD Queen Elizabeth and the Revolt of the Netherlands Charles Wilson (Macmillan 50s) Some years ago, in a conversation with Pieter Geyl, the Dutch historian, I told......