Nora Beloff

Young, attractive, and comparatively wellto-do, Galina Orionova defected from Moscow last year, leaving behind a job in a prestigious government institute and welcoming an unpredictable future. In telling why she did so, she reveals much about the workings of Soviet society and the chicaneries of Soviet bureaucracy.

The man who confers with President Nixon more often and more intensively than any other in Washington is a Harvard Professor who is said to admire Metternich but in fact finds in the thinking of Otto von Bismarck the guidelines to America’s role in the world today.