1933

Great news on the publishing front! Duke University Press has announced the publication of Pete Hart's book, Two Nato Allies at theThreshold of War: Cyprus, AFirsthand Account of Crisis Management,1965-68. The book describes the inside diplomacy practiced when Pete was ambassador to Turkey and intense efforts were made to hold in check the Cypriots and Turks who were at each other's throat. This publication is a fitting climax to Pete's distinguished diplomatic career, which included ambassadorships to Saudi Arabia and Turkey and the post of Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asia. Incidentally, when Pete was in the last post, he and your correspondent, then a member of the "Foreign Affairs Committee, would from time to time (without bloodshed) confront one another from opposite sides of the committee table. Pete and Jane (a skilled diplomat and intelligence operative in her own right) spent a relaxing summer at Squam Lake (On Golden Pond) and, after greeting a new granddaughter in California, have come back to Washington to tout Pete's book.

More on the literary front. The catalog of the Georgetown University Library Special Collections contains an item about the collection of letters and memorabilia, there on deposit, which was developed by our Class Poet, Kimball Flaccus. The items were gathered in connection with the biography of Edgar Lee Masters which Kimball was writing and include research files and letters from noted contemporary authors who knew Masters. Alice Flaccus, Kimball's widow (who has just moved to Apt. G 166, White Horse Village, Gradyville Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073), recently confirmed that the biography was never put in final form, but that the rough manuscript is in Baker Library.

Nineteen thirty-three continues to surprise with its septuagenarian vigor. Bill Alden, 77 and retired from his professorship at the University of Virginia, has just comleted two reviews of revised texts of the works of Marcel Proust for the Times Literary Supplement (London). Considering the complexity of Proust's manuscripts (which he detailed for us), this current work of Bill's is a tribute to his dedication, his stamina, and his expertise. Bill and his wife, Marty, live in Charlottesville, but spend their summers in beautiful Goshen, in your correspondent's former Connecticut Congressional district.

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