18 JANUARY 1992, page 29

German To The Issue

John Biffen AGAINST A FEDERAL EUROPE by William Cash Duckworth, £7.99, pp.138 T he creation of the European Community in the late 1950s was intended to provide a Franco-German......

Watching Society Scampering Past

Henry Porter THE MANSIONS OF LIMBO by Dominick Dunne Bantam, £14.99, pp. 268 W hen journalists write about high society for American magazines they feel it necessary to imply......