Books: Man of War

THE GREAT GLOBE ITSELF (310 pp.)—William C. Bullittt—Scrlbner ($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...

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