24 MAY 1946, Page 4

From hundreds of editors, writers and officials everywhere the appearance

of a new issue of the International Who's Who (Allen and Unwin, 3os.) every spring must evoke a sigh of relief and satisfaction. For where else can the essential particulars about foreign magnates, not least the correct spelling of their names, be discovered?

The 950 pages cover.an astonishingly wide field, and include some information to which we can no longer claim to be strictly entitled. For example: "In a few cases, the most notorious of which is Adolf Hitler, biographical notices of persons reported to be dead have not yet been deleted because some doubt still remained as to whether their deaths 'could safely be presumed." Goebbels, oddly enough, is omitted, and Goering absent no doubt on other grounds. * * *