Parlons Franchement by Georges MarchaisReview by: Fritz SternForeign Affairs, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Jul., 1978), p. 890Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20040024 .

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890 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

PARLONS FRANCHEMENT. By Georges Marchais. Paris: Grasset, 1978, 224

pp. Fr. 25.

"Speaking frankly" ?for campaign purposes. The Communists, the true

guardians of the national patrimony, are depicted as the would-be builders of a democratic society, while Mitterrand's Socialists deserted the Common Program and purpose. After the electoral defeat of the Left, there is likely to be more frank talk, with or without the present Communist assertion to having a sole claim to virtue and consistency.

UNE R?PUBLIQUE PR?SIDENTIELLE? INSTITUTIONS ET VIE POLI TIQUE DE LA FRANCE ACTUELLE. By L?o Hamon. Paris: Bordas, 1977, 2 vols.

A French academic and long-time political activist presents his views on the

political institutions and their actual functioning. Designed for French students, useful for foreigners as well.

THE DIARIES OF A CABINET MINISTER. By Richard Crossman. VOL. II: LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL AND LEADER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1966-1968. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977, 851

pp. $18.95. VOL. Ill: SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES 1968-1970. London: Hamish Hamilton/Jonathan Cape, 1977, 1039 pp. ?12.50.

Rightly acclaimed as the richest because most candid source for the inner

workings of the British Government, the Diaries (Vol. I noted in Foreign Affairs, January 1977) are full of details ? about people, squabbles, issues, the travails and pleasures of official life. These often revealing, sometimes tedious remarks are interspersed with general reflections, as, for example, his comment on the occasion of the Cabinet's failure in 1967 to discuss the Vietnam conflict in all its

complexity: "Now I realize how rarely great issues are discussed in Cabinet as issues of principle and how one moves normally through a series of ad hoc

decisions on narrow issues which don't seem to raise the great moral principles."

WILLIAM BEVERIDGE: A BIOGRAPHY. By Jos? Harris. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1977, 488 pp. $22.00. A major work, based on private papers, on a representative figure of

twentieth-century British history. Lord Beveridge is seen as "perhaps . . . the last of the great line of 'all-round' social reformers. . . . Like them he was

imperious, compassionate, quick-tempered and neurotic, with an almost infinite

capacity for selfless and single-minded devotion to a cause."

SCOTLAND AND NATIONALISM: SCOTTISH SOCIETY AND POLITICS, 1707-1977. By Christopher Harvie. London: Allen & Unwin, 1977, 318 pp.

$16.50 (Paper $8.75). Essentially a series of intelligent and perceptive essays on different aspects of

the Anglo-Scottish Union, based on the premise that only an understanding of the past can clarify the present when "the main question . . . [is] how to prevent a total disintegration of the relationship between the two peoples." The author, a young Scottish historian, argues for a radical reordering of society.

CREATIVE CONFLICT: THE POLITICS OF WELSH DEVOLUTION. Bv John Osmond. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, 305 pp. $10.95.

The case for a measure of Welsh autonomy, set in the context of economic realities and the relevant traditions of political thought, particularly past discussions of the problems of community.

GREECE AND THE BRITISH CONNECTION, 1935-1941. By John S. Kolio

poulos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978, 315 pp. $24.00. A fine study of the relations between two friendly powers: their common and

divergent interests, political and military, in the years when British power in the

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