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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History has many curious and circuitous passages-many winding stairways which return upon themselves-but none more curious than the turn of time which brings the Great Charter of the English to stand across this gallery from the two great charters of American freedom...
...those who know how to read, this English collection of documents is really a unique and positive proof of England's unquestioned will to war. . . . That the goal of [British Foreign Secretary Viscount] Halifax and his helper, the British Warsaw Ambassador [Sir Howard] Kennard, consisted of keeping the Poles from entering into serious negotiations with Germans is fully and completely confirmed by the English Blue Book. It appears scarcely believable, but it is nevertheless true...
Died. Princess Louise, 91, Duchess of Argyll, great-aunt of King George VI, daughter of Queen Victoria, known as the "Royal Rebel" for her interest in art and for marrying a mere Marquis, later raised to Dukedom (first English Princess in 350 years to marry outside royalty); after long illness; in London...
Tibor Koeves (pronounced Kovesh), a Hungarian journalist who writes in English, has been traveling most of the past 15 years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art, a religion. Blurred at times by a little too much literary charm, as a textbook it is suggestive rather than definitive. These faults aside, it is one of the more perceptive and engaging of "travel books...
...WIND OF BLAME - Georgette Heyer-Crime Club ($2). No one cares much when bibulous, cantankerous Wallis Carter is shot on the English estate owned by his rich ex-chorus-girl wife. Though ingenious, Inspector Hemingway's sleuthing is secondary to the bright antics of Author Heyer's genteel screwballs...