Titoist Mirage

The Big Thaw, by C. L. Sulzberger. 275 pp. New York: Harper & Brothers. $4.00

In spite of the ponderous blurbs with which the publishers have loaded its jacket, this is actually—except for a soundoff in the final chapter—a modest book. It collects a number of articles, previously published in the New York Times, in which Mr. Sulzberger reports on his recent trips to Russia and the East European captive nations. As day-by-day journalism they are competent and pleasant.