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Books Of The Day

The Czechoslovak People A History or the Czechs and Slovaks. By R. W. Seton-Watson. (Hutchinson. iss.) THE constant theme of Czech historians, if not of Czech history, is the......

Spain's Italian Dictator

THERE is an old Spanish proverb " Let death come to me from Spain," and certainly that country has often proved the grave of political adventurers. Cardinal Alberoni, a......