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Books

A Clean, Well-Lighted Mind BY ALAN BR LEN G EORGE BERNARD SHAW must have been the last British intellectual above pigmy height to believe in common sense. He was confident that......

Famous Victory

A BATTLE, says the dictionary, is a 'combat, esp. between large organised forces.' The Battle of Britain was a good deal more than that. The main protagonists--RAF Fighter......

Connections

New Poems 1961: A PEN Anthology. Edited by William Plomer, Hilary Corke and Anthony Thwaite. (Hutchinson, 18s.) The Railings : Poems. By Alan Brownjohn. (Digby Press, 12s. 6d.)......