THE GREAT GLOBE ITSELF (310 pp.)William C. BullitttScrlbner ($2.75).
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
The Tempest
To William C. Bullitt, ex-Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. (1933-36), these lines of William Shakespeare's might well describe what happens when the Soviet Union has enough atomic bombs, and blows Western democracy to hell. Bullitt, who ended the war a major in the French Army, was struck by a car when walking along an icy road beside the Rhine in January 1945, has since...