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Twice A Year'?, succeeding issues have been rich in unpublished, forgotten or unavailable documents like these. Its latest issue includes a prophetic piece written by Heine in 1834 ("There will be played a drama in Germany compared to which the French revolution will seem but an innocent idyll"); a Civil Liberties review of the year 1939 commending 23 actions, condemning 25;. a 38-page analysis of Mussolini's foreign policy by Gaetano Salvemini ranking as the calmest, hence deadliest deflation of post-war diplomacy yet in print.
By tone, price ($2), format and program, Twice A Year seems limited to an upper-crust liberal audience, and its quota of contemporary creative work is a bit less "free" than its documentary content. Yet in everything it prints it conveys a sense of the seriousness of writing which few U. S. journals attempt to match and which is pretty well indicated by Editor
Norman's touchstone for documentary contributions: "Someone who talks about the thing must be someone who would do the thing."