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Penguin Books

Published by the Penguin Group

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Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, USA

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Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England

First published by John Murray 1952

Printed in Penguin Books 1981

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Copyright 1952 by Sir Arthur Grimble

All rights reserved

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading

Set in Filmset Plantin

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be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated

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