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GREAT CONTEMPORARIES — Winston S. Churchill—Putnam ($4).

Winston Churchill's Great Contemporaries is a collection of 21 essays, product of eight years of scattered writings, on various figures of importance in recent European political history, by England's irrepressible bad boy of politics. He is soundest in his estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian...

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