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IMPERIAL-CAESAR, by Rex Warner (393 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $5), recalls the fact that, perhaps because he campaigned on their island in 55-54 B.C., British writers have been markedly fond of Julius Caesar. From Shakespeare to Shaw, they have drawn a quasi-Churchil-lian portrait of the Roman dictator-arrogant and domineering on occasion, but indomitable in adversity, magnanimous in victory, farsighted in policy. British Author Rex Warner, an old hand at translating Caesar, has set out to fictionize him. In doing so, he carries fondness a step farther and tries to quash the lingering suspicion that Caesar...
...Played host to such distinguished foreign visitors as Madame Chiang Kaishek. Winston Churchil. Liberia's President Edwin Barclay and President-elect W.V.S. Tubman...
...door of No. 10 Downing Street swung open for Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. Around a large table in the Cabinet Room he sat with Prime Minister Winston Churchil, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, others. For an hour he talked of his Washington visit, his five cordial meetings with President Roosevelt. The conference ended in an air of optimism, subdued but real. The men at this meeting really believed that the Polish-Russian feud might soon be ended...
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