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...BOOM (307 pp.) - George Monde/- Random House...
...third and last stage. There is specific provision for inspection and control to prevent cheating, but to minimize Russia's fear of "spies" in the guise of inspectors, the plan introduces the new concept of zonal inspection, or sampling (TIME, March 23), to check treaty compliance on a random basis. Successive stages of the plan would be supervised by a U.N. disarmament organization (ultimately responsible to the Security Council). Eventually a U.N. "peace force" would wield all military power in the world except for minor law-enforcement units that each nation needs to maintain internal order...
...Mauriac. "Yet never gratuitous. But how to exhaust the gifts of reality?" Mauriac, who explains that he prefers literal exactitude to literature because he has "purified [his writing] of the last traces of fiction," certainly displays more than virtuosity. But how far can any author go with just a random thought-recorder? For no man needs to be told that the gifts of reality are confusing. He looks to novelists to give these gifts shape and meaning-and that Mauriac refuses...
GEORGE (437 pp.)-Emlyn Williams-Random House...
PLOESTI (407 pp.)-James Dugan & Carroll Stewart - Random House...