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A Call To America

Prelude to Victory. By James B. Reston. tHeinemann. 78. 6d.) MR. RESTON'S title can be taken to describe an unsatisfactory period before a satisfactory denouement or it can be......

A Life And Its Lessons

BOOKS OF THE DAY Short Journey. By E. L. Woodward. Faber and Faber. nos. 6d.) IN a sense this is an autobiography, written " in the middle of the journey of life " (at the age......