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...Cloak & Dagger Missions. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy's Was There, while dry and cautious, belonged on the shelf of must reading for the history-minded. So did Admiral Frederick Sherman's Combat Command, General Mark Clark's spirited Calculated Risk, and General Bob Eichelberger's straightforward story of the Eighth Army in the Pacific, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. Several of the personal-adventure books made excellent reading. Best of the lot was British Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's Escape to Adventure, a lusty, well-written narrative of daring and luck in carrying out cloak...
...modern industrial state, no matter how tyrannically secretive, can altogether hide its industrial plant and its military establishment from outside view. In recent years, the West has learned a great deal about Russia, not necessarily through cloak & dagger methods, but through patient, painstaking analysis of mountains of Soviet publications, official reports, government directives and statistics. These are often distorted, but they are not completely fantastic; they usually contain enough facts to enable Russia's own managers to go on managing their economy. Independent scholars as well as U.S. Government economists and intelligence analysts have laboriously constructed a picture...
...latter got into the Russian embassy at Pyongyang might make a good cloak & dagger story. As for the copies of our U.S. edition, they might have been mailed direct from the U.S. or been part of the bulk subscription order we deliver each week to the Russian embassy in Washington. (In the Soviet Union, 13 copies of our Atlantic edition go to newspapers, libraries, government bureaus and officials...
...Cloak & dagger romance and bustles-and-bows nostalgia both have their merits-and faithful droves of customers. It is a lucky author who can straddle the two fields without coming a cropper. In Author Thomas Bertram Costain's case, a firm hand with historical fiction (The Black Rose, The Moneyman) has been no guarantee of success with the gentler, slower-moving Gay Nineties period piece...
Most U.S. citizens still look on Latin America as a backward land of revolutions, strong men and cloak & dagger conspirators. In the July Foreign Affairs, a State Department planner who signs himself "Y,"* argues thoughtfully that surface appearances are misleading; beneath their often tempestuous politics, the Latin American nations are going forward toward orderly, democratic government. Writes...