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Montgolfians

BALLOONS. With an introduction by C. H. Gibbs-Smith. (The Ariel Press, London, 25s.) LONG ago there used to be a kind of milk chocolate—I expect many readers remember it—it was......

The Navigator

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, MARINER. By Samuel Eliot Morison. (Faber, 2Is.) PROFESSOR MORISON, the distinguished Harvard historian, has already written a full-length Life of Columbus,......

Pax Americana

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD AFFAIRS 1954. By Richard P. Stebbins. (Harper and Brothers, 48s.) UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY 1945-1955. By William Reitzel, Morton A. Kaplan and......