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Several bowls of cherries Geoffrey Wheatcroft TELLING LIVES: FROM W.B YEATS TO BRUCE CHATWIN edited by Alistair Horne Macmillan, £20, pp. 390 E ven after the Vatican pruned the......

Rumbling The Mysterious East

John Colvin INTELLIGENCE AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN by Richard J. Aldrich CUP, £22.95, pp. 524 A t Shanghai in the Thirties, the repre- sentative of the Secret Intelligence......