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Nehru" John Day. But the ordi-
nary reader will probably get a
much better idea of what is hap
pening in India from a book like
India Afire" John Day) by
young American couple, Glare and
Harris Wofford. jr.
Background on the explosive
situation in the Middle East,
where British influence is under
heavy nationalist pressure. is pro-
vided by a number of new books.
The British point of view is ex-
pressed in Wells of Power" MAC
millan). study of the oil fields
of Southwestern Asia, by Sir Olaf
Caroe. The Near East and the
Great Powers" Harvard. a SYM
postum. has a particularly good
section on Arab politics. John Roy
CarlsonS Cairo to Damascus"
Knopf) is billed as an expose Of
political intrigue in the Arab
world. The United States and
Turkey and Iran" Harvard, by
Lewis v. Thomas and Richard N.
Frye. gives a balanced picture Of
those two countries. Eleanor Bis
bees The New Turks" (Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania Press) is the
story of the radical TRANSFORMED
ton of the decadent Ottoman en-
pire into stable. modern re-
public.
None the less interesting for
its lack of concern for present
troubles is Caravan (Holt) by
Prof. Carleton S. Coon. noted
anthropologist's long view Of the
people and cultures of the Mid
die East
The most widely read of num-
ber of books on Israel was DIR.
James G.. McDonald's MY Mission
in Israel" (Simon & Schuster), a
sympathetic report by the first
American Ambassador to the new
Jewish state.
Endless Outpouring
Of Books on Russia
Of the writing of books on Rus
sia there appears to be no end.
One of the best of this years crop
is Cracks in the Kremlin Wall"
(Viking), by Edward Crankshaw.
a calmly reasoned and very read
able study which, without mini
miZing the Communist threat.
points out that the Russians, like
the rest of us. have problems. and
the Politburo also makes mistakes.
One book on Russia which sold
we'll in Washington was Total
Empire" tBruce), a study of the
sources of Soviet power by Father
Walsh of Georgetown School of
Foreign Service.
In addition to photographed
works such as Elinor Lipper's
eleven Years in Soviet Prison
Camps" (Regnery), there were re-
search studies like 'Russia's
Soviet Economy" prentice HALL.
by Harry Schwartz, and The OPP
irrational Code of the Politburo"
(McGraw-HilD by Nathan Leites.
Books on Western Europe have
been comparatively few this year.
No full account of the North At
lantic Treaty Organization has
yet appeared. Tito of Yugoslavia
has been the subject of two stud
les, Tito and Goliath" (Macmil-
LAM by Hamilton Fish Armstrong.
who can take him or leave him.
and Balkan Caesar" (Scribner)
by Leigh White, who doesn't like
him at all Franco has been more
fortunate in his publicity. "The
United States and Spain" (Sheed
and Ward) by Carlton J. H, Hayes.
former American Ambassador to
Madrid, is a strong plea for recog-
milton of the Franco government.
In the late fall Winston
Churchill contributed the fifth
volume of his monumental history
of World War II as he saw it.
Closing the Ring" (Houghton.
Miffiin) carries his story to the
eve of the Normandy invasion. A
somewhat different view, that Of
an American commander at the
corps and army level is given in
Gen Omar Bradley's "A Soldiers
Story" HolD, perhaps the best