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Why Spy?

TIBOR SZAMUELY Our Own People Elisabeth K. Poretsky touP 42s) The Red Orchestra Gilles Perrault (Barker 55s) Few Soviet spy stories have happy end- ings. '1 here are only two......

Ages Of Man

JEAN FRANCO Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Pablo Neruda translated by W. S. Merwin (Cape 18s cloth, 8s paper) Neruda's Twenty Love Poems were pub- lished in 1924 when......