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...with a small and relatively unknown segment of international relations become an exciting personal drama for the reader. Richard Ullman's Intervention and the War, a history of Anglo-Soviet relations from November 1917 to November 1918, is such a drama--one whose characters include British diplomats, Japanese generals, Czech troops and Bolshevik leaders. Its setting stretches from London to Tokyo, from Archangel to Baku...
...downfall may be a recent series, of embarrassments of Czechoslovak espionage activities overseas, for which Barak-as secret police boss-was responsible. These include the defection of Prague's military attache in Washington, a spy scandal in West Germany, and the arrests last year of four Czech agents in Switzerland and Israel...
Equally skillful in sorting the wheat from the chaff is O. (for Oscar) Henry Brandon, 45, of the London Sunday Times. Urbane, Czech-born Henry Brandon, a naturalized Briton, ranges with catholic and insatiable curiosity over the entire U.S., detailing everything from traffic jams to supermarkets. "Europe has become more and more Americanized," he says, "so Europeans are greatly interested in how the U.S. copes with such things." Best known for his probing interviews, he has lugged his tape recorder into sessions with Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Reinhold Niebuhr, Wernher von Braun, a spate of politicians from Nixon to Kennedy...
...when Britain's doubles players dropped all but two games to Norman Brookes and Gerald Patterson of a combined Australia-New Zealand team. "A pathetic display," snapped the Sydney Morning Herald, and Milan's II Giorno agreed: "They played like trained seals." Italy's coach, Czech Jaroslav Drobny, was so disgusted by his team's showing ("They treated the Davis Cup like a garden party") that he planned to resign...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare with puppets: an intricate trick executed with taste and charm by Jiri Trnka, a Czech with an imagination quite as wild as Will...