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The Great Schism

THE SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 1939-1946. THE RE- ALIGNMENT OF EUROPE. Edited by A. Toynbee and V. M. Taynbee. (O.U.P., 60s.) THE war-time volumes of the Chatham House......

Norman Douglas

'MANY of us would do well,' says Norman Douglas in Siren Land, 'to "mediterraneanise" ourselves for a season, to quicken those ethnic roots from which has sprung so much of what......