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Talking Big

Thanatos. By Maurice Richardson and Philip Joynbee. (Gollancz, 21s.) The Leavers. By Michael Allen. (Cassell, 13s. 6d.) Thanatos, subtitled 'A Modern Symposium,' makes one......

Two Steps Backward

Communism and the French Left. By C. A. Micaud. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 42s.) FOR a quarter of a century the best bulwark of the French right has been the strength of the......