Volume 39, Number 21 · December 17, 1992
Present After the Creation
By George W. Ball
Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953–71
by Douglas Brinkley
Yale University Press, 429 pp., $30.00
When French civil servants retire, they are often awarded major jobs in government-owned banks and industrial companies, but they almost never return to public life. Retiring political leaders in Britain may remain in the House of Commons as members of the loyal opposition or be given a seat in the House of Lords. Although a few may find work in the City or in British industry, they rarely move back to important jobs in government.
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