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A Page of Features Americana Books and Writers Chatter The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN Orator. Si„to, * WIUI*» I- iOriA fnsterners in general. Like any son of the Middle Border I S**y...
...The gold mine still furnishes pay *t And I mean dirt...
...Must we ever, New Leader, sit at your feature's tables with cottoned ear and guarded eye...
...He scurvied sheet aaanfiy for abetter as they engaged a sroefcIsad ef Germans...
...By Go* htno Salve mm* and Gevrgt U «m Duett...
...It too is factual, but its conclusions are matters of opinion, rather than" of truth...
...But one should be logical with himself and apply it to the principal actors of the tragedy...
...The Negro Labor Comaustee (Fran* Craeswatth...
...yet "Pertinax" never entertains the slightest dosbt...
...Tne athletes were no heroes to him...
...August ClSessens is pecnnaTrftit to write such a study A life-long teacher of workers and popular exponent of the principles of de^WOpfle socialism, Claessens knows and understands th* average main and woman irr America...
...aa* aa airplane—after all, there asm the RAF He crossed neutral Yugoslavia on a passport in which be appeared as a nmrsbant oa business...
...But there bene great lack...
...the great Italian philnsnnbgr . aad atotorian...
...The history of the profascist policy of the latter powers has been set down with alarming accuracy.» That the Vatican is bound by virtue of its own doctrine, to oppose democracy...
...against tie Germans before \ they SHcraad in conquering the whole country Tba political eoaclastoa Is that the fear of a eetoMttoa against fascism b) and will . be resptassabi* for irreparable daearacsisa and a great tow of life...
...suggested by the authors woakf be a gooa approach ,t» tjp> pfalixatton ot Tba^dsjav from want" for the Italtoa people, wfUymt indulgina to, ratfbr by oppastog...
...The volume on Petain furnishes supplementary deceptions...
...He write* as if these three men had been able to art independently ef the environment and eircumIt is only in the course of the second volume, entitled "Petam...
...this time wHh toe Ansaldo shipbuilder* The trail of sensannls *, left behind m eaoi mem...
...He called once again fa* a second front, and said that the CP., the Russian psoptat tbe embattled people of Europe, the United Nations . . . "spit apt* The Haw Leader...
...J iti.x Three intermingled sections can be distinguished in this book: an historical outline of iiitqaarhaagl political appease men: with respect to Fascism, a program for the Italian democratic republic of tomorrow...
...Last, but scarcely feast, ffcevn Waaf MMM DelAce...
...IN writing the 700 pages of these two voLimea devoted to the French disaster, the author's ambition wanted to rise above journalism, his usual trade, and to work at the level of the historical essay...
...Schuichi Kusaka has been » member of the faculty of Smith College...
...I can think of a title or two of later vintage...
...whe was with the first party making contact bettosda the British Sth and the American Sth armies...
...The conditions Which existed in Italy Jooth before and during fascism, and the acta and declarations of the United States ana British Governments as well as those of the Vatican, have no secrets from them, nrven paapto familiar with the reseat march of the events in the Western World, will find mush new material to this beak...
...and guesswork about future eyenta...
...Ashed...
...thm woaid have nniuadiately resulted ia their fighting the <Semana But tba Pops had warned agatost perrssttotog a meetu t.oii, and the British and Amaricaa 4»varna»*nto discsuragad it preferring to Vssnaassaa'' aba Henae of Savoy...
...The Pef for Pegler _iAX LERNER'S FM column about Westbrook Pegler shed some Tv light and...
...Before the British and American leidiers lies a hard road to their figbf...
...The historical oailine is the most important part of the book, and not only as it concenrs Italy...
...On the enotrary, he goes to infinite pains to obscure aad confuse really simple questions...
...The reality seems much worm than then eapanatiena...
...The historical section of tins book is Coll of then* painful revelations...
...time the inevitable Helene de Portes...
...V pRCB^SSQItS Salvemini and La Plana are historians of high repute, and politicians * with strong democratic and antifascist convictions...
...It is first and foremost based on truthtruth which is confirmed by scholarly interpreted documents...
...What one naturmBy expected was a picture of Franee between the two wars, more or less in outline, with indications of the evolutionary tendencies which led to events of 1940...
...Shaw Panes Again:—You may not have seen that exclusive inter• view with George Bernard Shaw whtoh one Lesnton oernsspondent managed to get recently Asked tbe form ef aaisa|aj meM Be wrmM like, he replied: "Government bp peopto ef caavfuHy tested capacity for the job...
...The Mf&Ury Defeat of France, limetie...
...He found that readers ate up his copy, and the men who wete slendered didn't object A manager of **dison Square Garden whom he maligned said .to him = TManxs »* the ad, only I wish yon would spell my nameright Thei trie* •»*de money, and his favorite saying was, ,«Thdy .pay off the •utter, don't they...
...Is it necessary to go oa and name others...
...atoatte M -ssoliai was mourn far him____ •¦ • • * Literati A Co.:—Benedetto Croce...
...A Western, yes...
...It is a sad truth...
...taeir guessing went serene tne oonaot surrender end were pessimistic aheut sta BasoRn toaaf ar aa tba 1 tsdsan people were concerned...
...For ten years Jack Belden Tune correspondent has been falls¦ tog the wars...
...I'd like to tsU you about Jim McClary, the last authentic bad man...
...The result would again be the same...
...Lusaka left Japan when he was four year, old, has been educated in the best insUta ttans of this country-coming to Smith from the P^^Lnat t»te for Advanced Study...
...Perhaps well get one of our writer* to go into it 0»e thing piques me...
...The friend whom I am quoting knew Pegler from the start of *M New York career...
...Two volume...
...Tbe wont is that "Pertinax" continuously refers to hie personal diary for tbe exact words of generals and ministers...
...He has travelled in every nook and corner of our country and baa probed into all its dark and shady spots Dynamic and blessed with, a salty sane* of huasor Gus loves people, and people hree him...
...But k must have been strar.ee to pat down tba Haisnmad...
...According to his account, misfortune has willed that all the perversions center in Paris and all of perfections in Moscow...
...But «f all this "Pertinax" says no word...
...N* ene can gainsay this theory...
...who was until recently my Chief of tbe Fascist uenernl Staff...
...They -peak in the interest pi* and for the honor4 of both' countries...
...two new Itaann cratoers...
...boo* and pick up the morning paper—to read in the fcisigga Mil i apsipoencr some of the most excitmg personal sdveature *ao*to* ia the history of journalism...
...By LEON DENNEN THERE has long been a orymg need :a the Jfnited State* far a peputor study of toe mots and causes of racial hatred...
...But that in no* aH...
...He did*, t '^WW W>ts and ball games the way the other sports-writers *>d...
...It seems that the conservative circles in this country ana *a*a« pars ted" by this book...
...W* na*fi pafif potttieians as well as panel doctors...
...Like any son of the Middle Border I S**y yelling at him that I am not his proper mark...
...Rut the staid old New England ^wnof Northampton is being reused against Mm, by^erican La*onwares, trade unionist and « ™!LJJS °W Springfield Republican *«4& remarks with New England «««nt: "Tolerance wiR dono harm...
...When Mussolini fall, the anti-fascists ia Italy tried to revolt...
...Pertinax, failing in with the present custom, transfer* to General de Gaulle a part of his measureless confidence in Stalin...
...Of course, the author, with even a minimum of historical method, should have begun with this, hat he would obviously have had to throw his first volume into the waste-basket...
...What emerges from these two velum**—compact, stuffed full of odds and ends, confused, painful to read—is the notion that if Gamelin was a sort of "Pertinax" of the army, "Pertinax" ia a sort of Dahtdier of journalism Our author attributes great importance to tiny psychological complications of his Foemoyncrt...
...After World War I, the General toft tba Army, to work for the PrelVi company the gtont rubber wiiiilgMsfi l-jaf bach to the War Mintotry...
...Pertinax" assembles a considerable amount of gossip about his ^heroes...
...Si*gl* copiee 25 cento...
...Sloan and Peon...
...ware found to ha aumisMbJ tern than shell-proof steel, all hell broke loose: but all was BefifispT up...
...Or let us take three others, General Nogues...
...Seymour Korman was caught with an sdvaiae American party for ten hours on a hill constantly raked by ham enemy fire...
...Bat another "Pertinax" might easily write another mhisai dealing with those who are here •bartered and spared...
...According to Max the leading anti-laborite to a thoughthas, unlearned wight who inherited a set of half-baked WOtooba fr»m his boyhood environment and lacks the brains to rnvfe* went...
...It is too painful...
...After hesitating for a month and a half, the King and Marahait atodaglto accepted the terms ef 'uncoadJtioaal surrender " Meanwhile the Germans bad oeeapied 'm< great part of Italy, and then the Hnglish and American Governments incited the Italian people to fight toe Carmaas...
...I must eanfess I do not read what Mr...
...Nevertheless, ia his two voluntas he has net given a chapter, not even an entire page, to deGaulle and his talents...
...There are mountains, magnificent and seeming efsriasting—and which we but glimpse aa we race...
...He started With the fight ¦Whagers...
...discovered a formula that, was a goldmine...
...to tbe eaaay tieas, wkjto faSya ateprass moat rania% from 13 to 17" SemerrtAsy...
...In their movie versions they make fortunes for their facile authors.' Here is something worth awssiigating...
...Does anyone have answer...
...It is aewever, well to emphasise that the reform...
...But it is the truth contained ia it which exasperates ahem...
...Deserts, with hazes as fair as any of earth's and with distances that ware files that gnawed at one's very heart—and which we nam but taste aa we go oa spinning wheels...
...2.75...
...They were just a lot racketeers, and the boxers were •rab stumblebums...
...Daladier, Reynaud"—and one is certainly astonished to come upon matter dMtferg with General Gamelin, a man who .was sever one of the leader* of the French Republic but simply a commander of the army...
...They used to sit round bars and chew the f»t when the present big shot wa* a humble reporter of sports"is man.put it to me like this: "Away back in those day* Ffgte...
...Ho sketches the portraits of three personalities who never rose to the great events and whose names are associated with the disaster...
...Anything would be baSfi**- tiMR our present lot of Anybodies chosen by Everybody...
...Pertinax's Gossip About France By PAUL TEXTOR THE GBAVE-DIGGERS (Let Fottoyeurt...
...to his booklet ^RacW Prejudice...
...Religion this or that, yes...
...No doubt he hie opinion all argument is superfluous...
...is their purpose to establish a true democratic regime in Europe...
...And ensf pea** be -on w this wayT HeWevet, preeeaVtrt* of sack an attempt are pSatory expoondrt fcv Professor* Sarremtni and La Plana...
...i tm Tke Look magazine apread for Wendell WifJk...
...showing id what extent the U. S. A. State Department and fit* British Foreign Office followed a policy -of "appeasement," even after the beginning of the war...
...f Term WHAT TO DO WITH* ITALY...
...Psychology «wren when it bears as to the pater rim of the abstract Ecepa&ies, of course—and Sociology teamed with industrial manure «aat Poetics, naturally, even to the ab«*ruse'lElliot...
...that "Christian democracy" ia a far cry from the meaning of democracy in thiseountry...
...Editions de la Motion Francaite, 61fi Fifth A<*»nue, Sew York City...
...The people are much inferior to the horses, there is a lot of riding hither and yon, but the men and women who are rescued hardly seem worth the effort...
...He bad bees prevtouuty arrested by th» Germans . . Rtadr* D%y nt wfll e*aa haa* aartous omanattthm en its hands with the U. 1 arrraai of Magnate* Digest" . . Michel Mok, express agent, ia gotog to w ashtngtoa as special correspondent tor the New York Post And ^amfascr-Cltftoa Fadbjaan i. hmvtog The lUw FariVr - agaaiae- . New all-art pebcy of Saa^iwp Remaa of 1 it n ***»», tenftfarty pure boekiab, is paying dividend*: circubxtton i. «Fto...
...Their feebleness, their hesitations,' their contradictions, their inability to make their acts square with their words, their failure to translate their intentions m terms of life—all this proves that they lacked th* importance Which was accorded them ia placing them at the heart of a pretended "historical essay...
...Now it is too tote...
...But I must not flunk of all this...
...One still awaits a study of Franc* measuring up to ta« toaparteaes of tba theme...
...In his mind the.ma* or the method that *tkes the most money is right...
...that the author gets around, rather incidentally, to giving us some remarks' about the state of France after the other World War, about the movement of its population, the development ef its techniques, its productive capacity, 'toe classes of its society, the political parties and the currents of public opinion, etc.—and all of this in an extremely disorderly way...
...Mere are dramas of which we have left only the empty scenes...
...CamiQe Chautemps and Paul-Bopcour...
...an# raafil»to|ittii solution » • * THE guesswork ia the least fortunate aacttoa 1 of the book...
...desirable species...
...second, the -rights of labor," etc...
...However, it must be safd that these opinion* are neither conservative nor radical...
...This book, it is to be hoped, wifl serve as a bell to awaken and clarify the minds of the American people while there ia still time—if jt...
...by this that he has net studied or examined alt the available theoretical data on raciaf prejudice but aa a teasher of workers—an ^^afttf" tf ybu plaaae ,.he baa written this study...
...Rut they have achieved literary recognition...
...For example, a paasaga from the Briti$h Case by Lord Lloyd with an introduction by Laid Halifax (then bead of the Foreign Office) in December, 1939 (note the date) reads: The Italian gemus has developed, m the characteristic Fascist institutions, a highly authoritarian regime which.-however, threatens neither religion nor economic freedom nor the security of the other European nations...
...There are the novels of Man Sandoz, Old Jules and Slogum House...
...But in a society properly balanced, with men and things rated at their true worth, would there "b« any question' about tbe mistreat of a minister ha connection with the problems of the life and death of the nation...
...Detective tales, now called "mysteries," are bw-brow enoagh...
...This explains why, to his great regret, Stalin was driven to proclaim that "Fascism is a matter of taste," that France and England are responsible for the war, etc...
...Compm Race Problem < ..-f- . . t| ACE prejudice cuts straight athwart our national life...
...Albert Sarraut and Joseph Caillaux...
...They will be better dead...
...Shells tore- holes in the men aR around Mm,' ami others in desperation sacrificed themselves out m the open in order to get »t the snipers...
...And now he has fW^g .*• same method works in a column which cover...
...The first volume is entitled "The, Last Leaders of the Third Republic: Gametia...
...This would mean that the Italians must fight and die w.fer the cause ef the United Nations oaky to be considered defeated enemies inter- Can this be tba tostke that tba United lHttoaa have prepared for the warti...
...Whan their exasperation cools, tha> may bane a batter understanding than heretofore of "what to do with Italy"—and the rest of Europe...
...Itis hot limited to California's Associated Farmers or to any poor *>ite trash of the South...
...it V,primarily an attempt "to popularise certa.mformation for alert but, baas fMganjwfio are up ia arms against the e*B « r^Mta*** 4 It is as a coattribation to thfi un^aerat-^dfhg and awareness that August CUessetts' booklet is important asm should be rend widely ' Inside and Out By MATTHEW LOW sn?aW«U3i rivrmimmitvnl •__THm iraek Thnnfbinrli of AiMraCaUu# w/tttf r looking into John P Marquand's best-aeOer, Se «U*7|lS, and nodded knowingly over the add portrait of Walter Xe s nambe...
...Pertinax" does not even undertake to refute reasons given by the Marshal in his address of June, 1P40, to explain the defeat...
...and something of the sunbeams of oar West find- place e. We know again the tastes of peace and rest...
...Not for your features' tables the wines to bear m eo any care-free skiffs over any whispery and peaceful lakes pbtre rest were the air we would breathe...
...Their fear is based above all on the AngloAmerican confidence in the monarchy of Savoy and' in the Vatican...
...be dnSr't take the sea route—rnfestod by British submarines...
...pERTINAX" carefully shields some of his personal friends aad skillfully tempers his accounts of two ar three persons ia accordance with what he conceive* to be the requirements of his own situation...
...T do not consider either the Wcrbpsffman as he exists today or his parasites, the ladies and apasp^pjant...
...The baftot sbntvssed the bssm in Ida to*, seal Jack Bebfifp will be oat of the war tor sti aseatha...
...Mow such tales—full of action, but without any human insight -eeem to he beloved of millions...
...Thm to nuetosalnety true today when we are in the midst of the greatest war known to modern humanity—a war which will create new social patterr.s...
...wn* Ca isjMiiu retiring for a few months . . . The tuft aebaf '"benor'' is hjdJcsou...
...CewntorRevolution...
...In no other writer have we found description so in kinship with action, with description so subordinated to action...
...Tba Italians are now fighting, but it will inevitably be a bloody defeat lee...
...aad then back to the ec^poretinns...
...Uf'i Sfcoof Up the Town CAGPrfnVnW sitting hare at 7 East Fifteenth Street—with just -ne jlsmmi green segment of Union Square showing through a aft in red-brick buildings—and reading all that...
...By Peittnax...
...Must we never, never, there, meet something of story-telling at its best ? Must we—well remembering the stress 'tad strain that are now America's and which must grow yet heavier snd darker—feel that the well-known publisher was to liter in choosing Westerns for the millions of hearts that were under th* greatest strain they had ever known...
...When the pistes far the Trent**'' naw •Tstosta...
...The authors wrote it befons the fail of Munsohni and the surrender of Mary It hi not their fanH that they did not ffiaaeapt tba way these eneato acenred or their caasanansnces...
...This is far from owing the work of an historian worthy of the name, or even a mere serious journalist...
...Their loyalty to the United States, as' American citizens, and their love for Italy axe beyond question...
...adjustments, and maladjustments and wtti radica.ry revise our concepts, prejudices and behavior...
...to oar West when that West's every echo found some answering in hearts all across, our prairie lands and all about our new and aspiring cities...
...1*3©—these are-some of the facts, definitely established by th» book...
...Worse than that he does net even ga to the trouble of verifying at th* Public library such essential details as the names of people, the orthography of th* ueaaes, ate.—which ia a sfngular way of attempting to rise frutu journalism to history The two eolamae contain an enormous namber of errors of fact which it would be easy cite for a French pahtieaaton but the detailed which wouM ae ok only fatigue tbe i team a of an Aiasri— ni nap apse...
...1 think of men t knew out there, of horses—yes—even of a woman or two...
...new ever...
...According to "Pertinax" Stalin has always stood ready to respond favorably and without reservation to any move by a French minister...
...Even steering cleat of such men as Flandin, Bonnet, de Monxie, Bergery and aH of the other a priori tiapecta, one could make the same demonstration...
...Suppose for a moment that three other personalities of equal rank or caliber had been chosen in then: places, for example, General Georges...
...Hibner has raised...
...He is against Japan and has been approved by the FBI...
...What...
...Rand School Press, ? East itfft Street, fVew rVrft City...
...It is not enough for the Italian people to achiev efreedom and establish democratic institutions necessary to support freedom...
...ebalrman) it an effective, progressive organisation supported wbnrly bytoe Rberal-labnr mrviisnS Tae lettow-toaestora hava nam set op a *!fegro Labor Victory Cemarrrtoe" to order to eaaat ir on the possible auanantorstandmi . . . In three long columns ef the Daily Worker this week, fsMat Amter accused The New Leader editors of "fascist racist tfatWE** being "Insidiously un-American...
...The general reeartof the catnpaign half the world around smiled, and said: "Yon rtieg* get aroaad eVtraordinariry well*" . . • * • ¦TV Wrealm Set:—When Stalin recentbjr eaded co-ad*acation in * Soviet schools, progressive edocators gripMy noted aPnXber liberal setback...
...made one suggestion which may be very close to the truth...
...From Vsaisa raeentti' casa* the pnusu*tf» that Itnitoas be considered "defeated ene mtos" and ant allied fighters...
...Alexander Werth, Moscow sorrespeadent, esme through with an "explanation.'' We are new residing if for the fitvef tea, and we've yet ta find the bead Or nail, abma-2*-*: "ft i» a scientific fact that girl* and boys do aa* db**l#<Bj| tpA same ages at the same rate...
...ateaaT u* an • sueae fear, sad m bast Is % dtu* about M yards away, tot ham have at wttb a toabIMWnrad rifie...
...With not g preachment anywhere, Robertson's stories carry integrity—as sorely as do the works of an Emerson or a Hugo, Robertson brings enough of the night to make the day stand forth fair indeed...
...fit consider will constitute happy lWing for the worktoaunsmtvV Sfmw cracked: "It is not what 1 consider but what he lysnpfess that rou have to ascertain...
...But do we go but a little way with our author the cares and exactitudes that were upon our brows and nibbling at our hearts yesterday are swept Cy...
...QMs* most rapbf pashaf M pbybteal and mestal growth is...
...The whole process would have gone forward in the same way...
...And if you suppose that gossip has the interest which "Pertinaa" amigns to it, the problem of France still remains to be explained: how France ever came to accept as leaders individuals so inadequate to their tasks, and why the French Parliament gave them its confidence and clothed them with full powers...
...Famous last words—a Cosamantot tpokeamsa at a rosea* London meeting: "Workers would have more eonfideaee to us if we did not take the attitude that we asa always ngrbx...
...at,0°8' Witics and international affairs...
...And then there was Jack Peterson on a white horse that would make all the circus horses, all the trick show-horses—in fact all Eastern horses—look like rather awkward cows...
...T> antjlsea show that they would even maintain T* this writer it seems that Professors Salveavai and i*v Btona do- not JweQ aufepmOy on the rnoannric decentralization and the development of municipalities and co-operatives...
...The other day, however, I got l*Mn an old newspaper man an interpretation which may serve to esgment it...
...Furthermore, he is very badly informed on the period since the armistice...
...Masking the little Italian road on the to vaaton roaae...
...If copiem $2.00...
...About other protagonists the gossip-mongers could vary their picture, but .the march of events—that is, the march of tanks and planes—would siatoto the same...
...And DeLuce replied: "Not quite so tetajb fb getttog eat of Burma with yon...
...John Steinbeck, the only one of America's major lasaties writers to follow the ghybal action (John Dos Passe* is reporting people on the home front, Ernest Hemingway hasn't ulu»saaj to the fronts since Spain and the first year of the war), turned ur on the isle of Capri—the only newspaper man with the AngloAmerican task force to take tbe little Hastes isfaad, feavgf'ta song and story...
...The magnificent fight of Britain and the United States is unfortunately accompanied by prditjtesl prejudices and confused ideas aa to what Fascism really is...
...Maaajuaad baa soma may effective passages oa this new Aaaerioaa heia-eiaohfaj abtah bibs ssmptontod the older hlalstrtoi of the Banker and she Deator...
...Me was is China to Illf shea it pg started...
...He found that readers Jeved tt...
...And, of course, we are called tmon to endure for the nth...
...After the engagement waa over, Rehtos want i pea...
...Ike Italian system is founded en two rocks: first, the separation of Church had State and the supremacy of the Church in matters not only of faith but of morals...
...01 pbfes...
...Specialist in gossip, be is new driven to collect his tidbits at third or fourth hand, twisted out of shape by their numerous transmissions...
...as be hittasff states, neither for tke expert «or for the moron...
...Fortunately for Cleeasens he is not too burdened by acienuac-' baggage I do not mear...
...is feet the opening shot in a tremendous preyaaands campatoa, &? r*f*r* ia the htotery of V. R paRttos baa a pnbricligaregato* ^ -v-werful an advance builo-up' The entire apparatus of nmdara...
...j The part of the book dealing with the program for an Italian democratic republic is naturatty of a different nature from the historical section...
...be went round tearing people down...
...C«nrade WetsonTelemeatary...
...The gossip material is abundant...
...Over a period of more than three' decade* he has tonrraat intimately of the things that trouble the American worker...
...When Cevnilero had to get to the fighting front in Greene fci 1*41...
...This- is want ha aataiiipts to do...
...TK General Died at Dawn:—The suicide was reported tbe OtM* day of Marshal Ure Cavaflero...
...them...
...Apparently he was iniabas to bear the dishonor of the shameful treachery of his fbfberbjrat" . . . Wag, whom the gods, would make corrupt, they *lwa^flfa|fe aeaVrfgbtoeaa...
...CavaBero was perhaps Italy's greatest rsawtjrnery—« Stock sain ageM fat the Army, and a big-bosfneas asjtoft m tba aUackabarto...
...has been liberated" by the British landtag at Sorrento on tbe south side of tbe Ray of Naples...
...Hibner refers to as "Westerns...
...As a matter of fact, the general views of France expressed by "Pertinax" tend to show that the country was moving toward an inevitable catastrophe and that, under the circumstances, the three mediocre personalities whom he selects as his themes could not have played a decisive role...
...this place and that where, it must be, we have lately camped for sday...
...DROFESSORS SALVKMINI and LA PIANA * share the fear that after the war, Fascism may continue in Italy under a different name...
...Pertinax" nowhere throws light on the fluctuations and contradictions of Vkhy policies...
...The same irresponsibility and mediocrity have character mad tbe llisaaswaliii artistes hp "Pertinax" in the N. Y. Fbato...
...th* celebrated foreign cot respondent who had been tosade eetfywhesa, and called everybody who was anybody by his first name (including the Shah of Persia...
...Italy, Tragedy and Hope By LIONIELD VENTURI Well-known Art Historian, tormerry at the IJmvarsit...
...By Angus* Cfeeseen...
...A great bare indeed...
...soive the ¦wjaojffe industrial and srrarian problems, and determine the relations between Church and State in Italy...
...Defense of The New Leader and of all the literary journals is * little difficult, but an explanation, at least, is in order...
...and—there is no woman of London's who lives so warm in one's heart as does any one of several to be found hi Robertson...
...Mention of these books gives the clue to the problem which Mr...
...Alexander received DeLuce and renmrked: ""Tbwt ajab eaite a trip...
...Many of my friends, when you use the word, can conjure up nothing aire recent than the tales of Mark Twain and Bret Harte...
...i^n Die very while when London «aa being bombed till every ?Z "^in^toJ^^^'^!bert...
...that, in crushing democracy, the Vastoaahopes to take advantage of the •'parallel action" promised by President Roosevelt to Pius XII in • his letter of December ti...
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...Must we always wear our aim-andsarpose coat...
...trrtrte htm, we are reprinting your novel for reading in the edlars.' Prank C. Robertson—published, now, through a fifth of t century, in America, in England and in translations—takes us ia Kmedoin /*r a floras CCoflias, Sons * Co., London, 7s ftp...
...Re got out of the Orient after the fall of Rama, and told the whale story to "Retreat wRh Pulnell . . . Last week Beaton went eat with aa Aaaericaa aaranaaaiaaare parti...
...Nevertheless, it is essential to the welfare of Franca that the sophistries of the "national revolution" be not allowed to gain standing for lack of a reply...
...A Timely Booklet RACE PREJUDICE...
...I p to Harlem agato the Cesaaaisn are arybng to pail a fast* one...
...ThTrat™ „ this western wildman's charge ae^ tim*^* a^sosSn jgbjof the continent you shall learn from hi/own woro8 -With the world's largest library near at hai^sell-known authcr-lecturer has said, Tor rest-reading lrLa ¦nt we who hare—and gladly—browned from ^ 3few LeaeW Igstare pages would not know, front ft, that there fa extant aay gKh type of reading...
...a*ew**fi*muoosly ldunaei i and bm mm bis puttie to btea il us...
...They must accomplish a series of reforms to ckeek unempteyment...
...never raises any question, psychological or of any other sort, about—Stalin...
...and went to the length of coming to an understanding with Hitler, knifing Poland in the back, attacking Finland and wiping out the little Baltic countries...
...e f« rV•stern Women RBANK it was who spoke of Jack London as 'our greatest story-teller.' Now, we can say this of Robertson, there are characters whom we feel we have known in a not-long-age time...
...In the conventional Western there is a lack «f Human substance...
...If they can do it, why must th* Westerns fail...
...He de toured arwdhd German tanks coming down the same rand, went through a Mfw town and met a fallen ? 9. flyer who had been bid from fin* m*n occupying Nazis by Italians, and finally met General Harold Alexander...
...File, and forget) . . . "** **** Whet aba Draft officials took a vote oa the Joe GMflfi ease, oaiy one ballot was cast in hit behalf Tbe rest vptpg' to draft him immediately—although bat almost fg aad a leader ef a legitimate trade aatoa (afitoit, a f>a*nsn||||, waa an high princlpta has been v^mtessT l^thtiS^f-1 traveasr saad-sliagerc for years...
...If he cannot cure hsj fits he ean as least diagnose his case...
Vol. 26 • September 1943 • No. 39
