About our contributors: Norman Gibbs Chichele Professor of the History
of War, at Oxford, since 1953. Attached in an advisory capacity to the International Council of the Institute for Strategic Studies.
Charles Hargrove
Paris correspondent of The Times. Franco- phile, with Normandy retreat, who supports the Common Market despite his Peterhouse, Cambridge, education.
Molly Mortimer
Born on the Isles of Scilly, the last descen. dant of a long line of Mortimers on the islands. Graduate of the London School of Economics, in International Law, and spends most of the time, when not working for the Royal Commonwealth Society, writing all the Commonwealth articles for the Encyclo- paedia Britannica. Belongs to the Society for Psychical Research, and used to write pam- phlets for the Fabian Society.
Tibor Szamuely
Born in Moscow .itt 1925. Educated at MOscow University; 'and various Russian prison camps. Head of the Dept. of Modern History at the University of Budapest, and Vice-Chancellor there in the late fifties. Has lived in England tor six years, and now lectures in Politics at Reading University. Writes for several newspapers, and is now working on a book called The Russian Tradition which he hopes will be published next year.
Michael Ivens
Has published two books of poetry and a book on industrial communications. Until recently, Director of the Educational and Industrial Research Foundation, and now a director of Standard Telephones and Cables. Co-editor of Twentieth Century.
John Vaizey
One time Fellow of Worcester College. Oxford, and now Professor of Economics at Brunel University. Married to a freelance American art critic. Has two books coming out with Weidenfeld shortly—Capitalism and Social Democracy—and says he 'was dismissed from the Public Schools Com- mission for being too honest.' Not otherwise unsuccessful.
Sally Vincent
A policeman's daughter who left school at sixteen and went to work on the local paper. Wrote her way up via the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express, on which she was a staff writer, to writing regularly for Nova and the SPECTATOR and each week composing an amusing cookery column for the Evenine Standard. Has made a number of television documentaries on human problems. lin- married, more from preference than lack of opportunity.
Kenneth Wiggs Educated at the London School of Econ- omics. Wqrked at the British Iron and Steel Federation before the last war, and the Ministry of Economic Warfare during it Then in the Economic Division of the Allied Commission for Austria. A member of re• search groups concerned with the economic development of foreign, countries,
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