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Lost Cause

MAX BELOFF The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott 1911- 1928 edited by Trevor Wilson (Collins 70s) The period covered by these diaries was probably the last in which the editors......

Fits And Starts

NIGEL NICOLSON The Youngest Son Ivor Montagu (Lawrence and Wishart 63s) It takes some courage to end the first vol- ume of your autobiography at the age of twenty-three. The......