Shorter notices
The Beginning of the End Angelo Quattrocchi and Tom Nairn (Panther 6s). Revolution 1968 Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville (Pen- guin 6s). The Student Revolt: The Activists Speak presented by Herve Bourges (C.ape 30s). `When the finger points at the moon, the IDIOT looks at the finger.' Chinese proverb by cour- tesy of Messrs Quattrocchi and Nairn, who dedicate themselves to seeing 'the golden moon in the events of May.' Tough luck on Seale and McConville, who stick resolutely to fingers but nevertheless succeed in writing the best account so far of the May 'revolution.' Tougher still on the fingers themselves, Cohn- Bendit and his friends, who, blandly goaded on by Messrs Bourges and Sartre, point fiercely in all directions but seem hazy as to the golden moon's exact location. Mr Nairn and Signor Quattrocchi do their best to help out, but only succeed in provoking a situation not far short of total eclipse.
Three Years Hard Labour William Davis (Deutsch 30s). A nearly (but not quite) dis- illusioned Labour voter drags his bruised heart through everything that went wrong for the Labour administration up to last year's de- valuation. Interesting as a chronicle of self- deception by the English pseudo-intelligentsia, but scarcely as history_ The author solemnly in- forms us on page 23 that it was Harold Wilson who persuaded Stafford Cripps to devalue in 1949. He might try this in Punch if ever he ..runs short of jokes.
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