The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
A Page of Features Americana Books and Writers Chatter The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN fSmn and Senators HERE is an answer to our wandering senators—and from the best possible source. It was...
...McALLISTER COLEMAN...
...HENRY JAMBS...
...A man more courageous than ethica aad of undeniable ability...
...Tyl Ealamapiegel...
...Pantheon...
...it appeared ?are days before in The New Leader's dispatch...
...This letter is from one of them, the Reverend Karl M. Chworosky, pastor of a Unitarian church in Brooklyn: ,, "That piece of yours, The Mantle of Debs, in The New Leader '••f October 23, brought back some memories that you may care t$s share with me...
...th* atreae-tk af Caaal elan...
...Parallel to the frustrations of the Austrian psychoanalyist's family in their attempt to get through the barbed wire of U. S. immigration technicalities, occur the sexual frustrations of their American benefactress, Vera Stamford...
...There would, perhaps, have been no real occasion to review this book had not publishers Simor...
...Two books devoted to the dream life with the dream girl should be enough for Smith...
...A* Tke Daily News' John O'Donnell would suggest, it's probably pale New Deal propaganda, written by Archie MacLeiah, and keu^peo out by the OWI...
...ar* ate Pearly eUeappeiatri* at Sferra*' rtiler* ta a* the Sen, nt leader af a rebec* Italy, biersa hat lie.a farced) la piai a matt c sett eat faat* da* to act aacaar trace nib the monarchy aad Bade*;!!.- . ¦ . T*n.f* fr...
...I had seen Debs only a few days before his death...
...Oae af tb...
...They never see the heel beneath the lipstick...
...The attitudinizing was unusually enlightened and mature, but it was nevertheless precious, rather in the O'Hara-Hemingway manner, but with other values...
...And more of {he same.V The plot development is contrapuntal...
...We can see that the British are not lying back and counting on Uncle Sam's doing it We can see that they are working hard, that they're fire-watching, air-raid-watching, doing a thousand and one nasty jobs which Americans know little of...
...3.00...
...I wouldn't '.ead any strike—but sometimes the only way for a union to get a decent break is to us the threat of a strike...
...Except for a satirical side-swipe, now and then, at our sentimental idolaters of Stalin, he manages to recount the bloody tales of Stalinist purges with the same composure, the same historical detachment, that he speaks of equivalent blood-lettings under Ivan the Terrible or Peter the Great If he errs at all, it is certainly in the direction of giving the devil his due and a little extra...
...utnitt with aftaraaaa shopper, at* bread Haa* ipread est far blacks, weald here b**a a aanp.ee »• ¦ •ateat far th* little Kiac If the aati-Benarchitt lame, at eat af the pahlic uaiper had b**a correct...
...Ma U aaaecedceablr Italy* *autaadiaf paHtieiaa at th* element.And from Don Hollenbeck, PM and NBC correspondent in Naples, comes: -. . . There ie the failar* *f a really atrpas Italia, la.dtp te caerc* with the barkiac af atest ef the accpl...
...Miss Hobson is not one to provide them...
...Incidents emerge from a Turkish bath of stale emotions...
...Had Miss Hobson not insidiously introduced a Viennese psychoanalyst who knew Freud, the biology of sexual impotence, and several expressions not customarily found in women's home magazines, this would have been a novel in the finest pulp tradition...
...The reply of the Co" pressman is not recorded...
...prar...
...Robeson, for us, came through mainly aa The Voice He had moments of noble grandeur, but, really, be was u*f jg -one song in one key all evening...
...Th* crew* bad tapir eppertaaitv ta thaw diaaiaasar...
...The current contingents of "revolutionists" grouped around the pro-Soviet standards outside Russia certainly are a deluded lot if they think themselves champions of rebellion...
...r*ptiea *ec*ra*e Victor lauaaal ia this iipautl hotbed if repabi.ean aa-itauaa tfcrwwa e*asjd*r*bl* desbi •a tB* ataaasBaaas af Cant Sfersa aad ethers . . . that tk* Kiac waa thsrearhlr *i»<-r.*:it** ..d despised satoae th* mass *f Italtaa* that ¦•at w*at a* far aa ta predict that Victar Em.n.r waaM a*T*r ear* sh*w his face ia Naples...
...But you could have seen it coming, after 200 pages of exposure to her maudlin affirmations and his hysterical devotion to a radio network...
...Ner J-—Kia* TkW uhI III vMM Naalea thU afterne*a...
...The Shock of Recognition...
...There was a big «rowd, and the bell tolled again when the hearse- took the remains •1 our great leader to his final resting-place...
...The Spanish Labyrinth...
...And oh, yes .a story— One of Othello's last ruses is a severe la<iilsjis«|f ef eaa af his enemies, "a circa atria ad dog...
...f ' ui is truth...
...a * Diddle Me Another:—One little exchange in Washington last week wasn't reported by the press so anxious to smear the Labor Movement, and the UAWs Tom De Lorenzo in particular . . . De Lorenzo had remarked that he didn't approve of the nostrike pledge...
...f hie car...
...I have room here for only one letter...
...EDMUND WILSON...
...Simon and Schuster...
...Some of them may not relish reminder, such as this • from Chamberlin's book, that romantic revolutionism is a thing of the past: "The typical leading Communist of 1943 is a co-director of the largest management enterprise in the world, the Soviet Union Inc., the administration of industry and agriculture, trade and communications over one sixth of the land surface of the globe...
...Note the grand but superfluous attempt at symbolism: deserted women, unwanted children, refugees—all of them trespassers upon some prfvate ambition...
...It was for us after all a last, grea night...
...The striking fact is that his influence is strong in every section of the population,among all sorts of people...
...CHARLES DE COSTER...
...We realize that the British are living with a foreign army of considerable size in their midst an army which lives under its own rules and unto itself and which is almost like a country within their country...
...By William Henry Chamberlin...
...epea Flat, wa* ailiily acclaim...
...And though this army is an ally, yet it is a reality, too...
...410 pages...
...Miss Hobson has gone to the trouble of obtaining a good many statistics on immigration quotas between the Anschluss and the declaration of war...
...aaa *T*he Kremlin Set:—The party-liners won a big victory «Kw -* York last week, with the election to the Council ef GlWfaTs Benjamin Davis...
...They could have seen that we—the Americana and the British—are cooperating better than anyone dreamed we could...
...red th< city Atent th* Via «•»» waar* th* aaaaaaaaU* waa halt** br the asaal aua-aftcrnaaa traftc jssj...
...a familiar phraee made more familiar by Winston Churchill, is carefully and industriously taken apart in these pages...
...His letter is dated October 11: •'I don't believe that Senator Chandler and his associates really awe over here to Britain or went to Africa or India or Australia or anywhere else with their eyes open...
...And now many little sticks like that newer see the light of print, but are tost in the city room...
...S. —Kiac Vector Kapanmal ***** ta a aaUea tiaatm twdar aa Us Scat ri.lt...
...Modern Library...
...did a.t cap* at lap at...
...Henry Holt...
...To men of in tenser fMjgy and more volatile tempers, indeed, he can be on occasion exasperatingiy fair-mindad...
...rereletien...
...Works," 3 volume...
...A novel by Laura Hobson...
...The Repobiic...
...tmmtMtm the trow a* a" Via* Beata a rvasla* oalteaM...
...Eat vial applaaa* aad rriel af -vr, ?| R, fell.wed th* prepree...
...When I gave my answer that no regular member of our church but a great humanitarian and saint, one of America's most distinguished citizens had died, there was consternation...
...And his sincerity is beyond question...
...The complexities of friendship, marriage, betrayals, subconscious drives, and Sigmund Freud, are all reduced to the same level in a relentless sweep of cliches...
...Wi wiseaea little fat* Hrhttat Vic **r aaaaaaa Ma pas pis...
...Those boys who come back with flak holes all over their planes or see 20 millimeter shell holes in their ships, put there by the jerries, realize this...
...This dept...
...THOUGH Chamberlin doea not make much of the point it is worth emphasizing that the popular assumption that Stalin wishes to "Bolshevize" Europe is a vulgarization of the truth...
...and some great performances (Paul Robe&o- J«*v Ferrer...
...You see what we mean...
...You see, before coming east in 1933 I was for -Wore than eleven years minister of the College Church in Elmhurst, Illinois, that little suburb west of Chicago where, in the Lmdlahr Sanitarium, Eugene Debs spent his last days...
...How American boys—to cite one small item—are now wearing RAP socks (Lend-Lease, I suppose...
...1 I think we can promise Bob a good many readers for his next letter...
...Chamberlin's concluding words are these: "It is not for us to dictate Russia's institutions any more than we should tolerate a Russian attempt to impose its form of government on us...
...Could it be that daughter is a "hosts- " lo mother's everlasting loyalty...
...It alae featured an "exclusive" expose of Phil La Follette's tie-up with the Mac* Arthur boom—which appeared in this column two weeks before...
...Not that the problem of exiles from Europe is in itself unmovmg...
...far he lads the *a«re political cat at salty Heed aa eawsaat hits, aad althaeas ha Kay be g.rblai .era* ap please aad cheats (rapt erewae la parte ef tke city, there la little deabt tkat the usual ataae• phere ia aafrleadlr ThU eerreaaaadaat kapneii te ha la Ceaat Sferas't keaaa when the Kins- draee bp thi...
...We realize something which, apparently, Senator Chandler has forgotten—the enemy we are fighting is on the other side of the Channel, not on this side...
...Is appaaraac* today *¦ the Via So aaa...
...The Fruits of Fascism...
...Well, I'll leave it to you to knsgine the rest...
...The Trespassers never suffers from obscurantism...
...They'd have seen a thousand and one things in life which spell cooperation...
...Last week, ia an taier view...
...They'd have known a little of the relief an American flier feels when he sees the welcome British coast looming up out of the mist, after a harrowing session flying over the continent...
...But they'd have seen, also, how in the everyday features of daily life we're working together...
...He has lived with the British, gown with them, suffered what they suffer...
...Mea and Coal...
...New Directions...
...with abasia *f "Viva B Bat" aa Bis party to...
...We sometimes wonder how we would act back home if the tables were reversed...
...The Kremlin has u.« to come across...
...Anyway, I at once telephoned my sexton and bade him toll and ring the bell...
...They'd see American soldiers and British airmen eating together at Red Cross Aero Clubs and Army mess halls...
...Hat aa* leer •r catcall was heard...
...But hew many times we've found a little 1H inch item in an obscure news column that illuminated a whole problem and event where the big-Mack headlined stories amis dull and conventional...
...Young trade union men who never saw him testify that he inspired their ideals...
...roared the Congressman, "that yon would barcain with the President ef the United States, our Commander-in-Chief...
...Miss Hobson has a flair for tear-jerking of the commercialized variety...
...HERBERT L. MATTHEWS...
...He seemed to us more effect.v< last summer in Princeton than here in N. Y. where he aimpi) runs riot...
...He aad Maaaplini .re alike: death ta the*.!» New her* Sid I hasp praise ar teyaity Tills*] Victar Eaiaaael's rlsit to Nasi** at thi...
...She conceives of suffering only in the crudest and most conventional categories, and translates it into still cruder terms...
...Then, too, we can see that, unlike Senator Chandler's tales, the British have really suffered in this war—suffered a thousand times more than we ever did...
...the pity of it all . . . the pity of it all, dear rwadpr . eaa^1' Forgive Us Our 'Trespassers' fy ISA K4PP THE TRESPASSERS...
...It makes a desperate play for a more literate public...
...Viking...
...ImU*i Mdi« thaa aver ia la* rear Mat ef a hie...
...Sentimentality runs rampant as Vera, a good woman but unfortunate, writhes in the sadistic grasp of an unpleasant fellow who believes that "women live by love and men by work...
...Aad N.ple* ia th* ataat ataaarehi...
...The futility of applying Western logic and Western yardsticks to Russian developments is one of the lessons, however, that cannot be readily learned from books...
...Its population has suffered too deeply'and been shaken up too thoroughly...
...Conservatives and radicals who are fighting the perpetual Battle of the Russian Revolution on the basis of Russian ideals and conditions of 1917-1921, even of 1929-1933," Chamberlin remarks "are wasting a good deal of information and in many cases are probably firing in the wrong direction...
...Randolph Bourne...
...and the phenomenon of the Foreign Correspondent., are samething that never cease to amaze us...
...Or they'd see how British and American soldiers and airmen work together in the control towers, the radio rooms, the offices of American airdromes in Britain...
...He points out and supports his initial observation that "both the absolutism of the autocracy" of the Tsars and "the absolutism of the revolutionary regime" in Russia "are alien to the Western mind, with its tradition of tolerance...
...Major convulsions, they have cause to fear, might not be kept within their own frontiers and could overflow into the Russian empire...
...IN a labored version of the well-worked tragedies of migration from invaded European territory, Laura Hobson has written a palling story of pain and retribution...
...Manhattan) and Peter Cacchione (gsjonsjy* and feliew-traveler Michael Quili (Bronx...
...Inside and Out By MATTHEW LOW A Mating...
...He rose high under the rule of the iror heel and finally was translated into the oligarch class...
...Crawls war* partiralarly daeaeBatratlr* at Arelhn...
...To which this reviewer—now that religion has been made respectable by decree of the Politburo —ventures to say Amen...
...cantankerous to the last, iJMaatti1 a tittle as usual...
...52.00...
...It is something few countries have experienced...
...He rlr*re *.t*atat>*a*ly thraash th* atrwats in aa *p«a atilitary ear...
...The general impression was that ease was a great play (Shakespeare), a great production \Margarat Webster...
...especially when they happen to know that he is not quite as blase about horrors or untouched by gross injustice as he pretends...
...But the sermon was preached...
...The "revolutions" he has in store for his smaller neighbors, and for larger countries if events permit, are the kind brought on the point of bayonets...
...Without being too autobiographical, I can remember Robert Paul Smith as lie was then—a member of a small cult which made it a point to speak in private language about a private art...
...Thanks for bringing these memories back to me...
...The limitations of his personal code obscure the sensitivity of Smith's observation and destroy his sense of discipline...
...Well, the two dispatches which appeared last week in the Timet and Herald Tribune from the same city and on the name event ought to end The Great Illusion About Foreign Correspondents...
...One bright reviewer quoted the gen from p 12 i Tke Invasion of Germany—"It is my firm conviction that lore* inactive waiting will certainly accomplish nothing " Be then a ei on to analyze a half-dozen errors...
...LOUIS FILLER...
...waa a aacrairtaa af .r.tieaa a* hit aarty p.eted thraaih irimtiil t.wa...
...He has la a seas* caata hate the .«»«.» eaatp...
...But for that very reason the book should be a wholesome corrective, coming as it does in a period of unbridled admiration for everything Soviet, including its least admirable features...
...Hundreds of clergymen recognized this fact and gave testimony of it...
...ick, who simply 'couldn't understand' how I could dare to have '» Christian bell' tolled for the death of a man who was 'a Socialist, »traitor to his country and a jailbird.' I let my 'boss' have his say then announced that not only would I the following Sunday Preach a memorial sermon to Debs but that on the following day, when his body would be taken to Terre Haute, Indiana, for burial, < I would again have the bell tolled...
...atanr tbuer •tract* what* I talked ta pee pie a h. saw hi at...
...But more than anyone else in our time he embodied the deepest meaning of Christianity...
...and Schuster lavished an unusually expensive advertising campaign on it...
...His deep-dyed villainy is ovexwha^mlrhg and tfijjbnically brilliant, but from the point of view of chaxecter Bh mechanical and beyond all belief...
...On the question of the leadership of Count Carlo Sforaa Matthews writes: "It it caatmeei kriewlcelr* that Stars* cab bacaatc P'.wi.r If be waate the peat...
...MERLE CURTI...
...He wants to come as close as he can to dominate the continent which is quite another matter...
...Whcaeear the bit pray Plat alawed •wwa it waa »*« it, ¦ recalled by a cheariaf ¦ ¦ • - . . . KING VISITS NAPI.BO FINOS PVJBUC COOL dCOUNTESS RUbTI By Berber* L. Marth.we Special to the Timet NAPLES...
...Gene was the soul of honesty, and he never pretended to be a churchman...
...Pasrl Robeaon act forth his liberal sialhasals...
...aiaa was...
...By Robert Paul Smith...
...Amazing —The institution of the daily newspaper...
...itaL.it...
...aapr.piti.a...
...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE...
...Smith is one of the few young writers who still believe that putting words together is a craft, not an exercise in coincidence...
...Bareoart, Brace...
...Last Sunday, PAf PJiaaMd an "exclusive" story about the CIO convention...
...The moral, no less clear and no more original, is that sin and selfishness don't pay...
...IN "The Journey," Robert Paul Smith has written another earnest novel—too promising to be dismissed as "promising," yet disappointing because it might have been so much more...
...It presents a onevolume education on that country—past, present and even future—in the inimitably restrained, thumb-twiddling style that is peculiarly the author's...
...Motivations are simple, standardized, tritely formulated...
...Chamberlin is, above all things else, fair-minded...
...If gradations are to be made, one ought to mention that there are occasional effective scenes in the story of the Austrian VederJes, who are a rather likeable family...
...At Heaven's Gate...
...I shall never forget my several meetings with the Grand Old Man of American Socialism...
...Curt Eiesc' new book d> tuzu them out like an assembly-line) received the proper ,rui drubbing...
...If they don't watch out, Essandess may yet be mistaken for Street and Smith...
...ef r arret week a haa bee...
...To give her her due...
...All these things we American soldiers can see...
...crave* aarraaaaaa ta* BaL applaadia*- and ihearia...
...What was once a group ef international revolutionary enthaaiaato haa become a narkmjl ruling class...
...the Congressman charged in, "that you would take men out of our factories in times like these T" "No, I didn't say that...
...Tb* all at • trip acrass th* reaatry...
...You mean to say...
...the end-produet is a spicy broth of vulgarity...
...Hey, how about excluding us in...
...e * * Exclwdc Us la:—These days, everything in our papers ia marked "exclusive" except the date-line...
...A Private Code By PAUL CASTE LA St THE JOURNEY...
...We may hope that, perhaps by means and processes we cannot now foresee, there will emerge, out of the present ordeal of humanity, in which the Russian people have played a heroic part, a Free Russia, an integral and inseparable part of a Free World...
...It is virtually a library on Russia in 307 well written pages, every one of which bears unmistakably the imprint of a keen and honest mind...
...For we see the U. S. flag flying over numberless airfields here in Britain, we see the Red Cross dubs in all the cities, which, like the airfields themselves, are all parts of what amounts to a state within a state...
...Maya la .1 llllplp...
...But any subject predominantly in the news demands compensations in 'freshness and organization...
...aaa A Night With Othello:—Our last official act as your "Inside * Out" investigator into the civilian state of the wetuo *>*> to see Othello the other night at The New Leader theater party . Not very much to report...
...CROCKETT JOHNSON "Barnaby...
...It ia madriaabl* to raaat atrenxlr aa Ceaat Carle Sfersa...
...Harpers...
...The Growth ef American Thought...
...It was written by Bob Alexander, a frequent contributor to The New Leader and a member of one of our bomber squadrons in England...
...That's putting it a little on the heavy side...
...MI've been going to London as usual...
...the news of his passing reached me on a Friday or Saturday...
...By detailed examination of Russia's historical heritage, racial and geographical conditioning and other generic factors, Chamberlin gets a lot closer to the riddle wrapped in mystery within the enigma...
...hat the Newpohtant...
...He remembered me from the days of my Journalistic connections with The Milwaukee Leader, when for one >*ar I served as music and drama critic of this daily of the party, whose editor was the redoubtable Victor Berger...
...1907) referring to the 1990s— "James Farley, a nc4arioBs strike breaker of the period...
...I've .seen, among others, toe head of the Fabian International Bureau and Louis Levy of the French Socialist Party...
...J. P. didn't wait for aa answer, and maybe he had a good reason...
...Smith's attempts to carry the standards of this cult into adult life, his inability to discard it, his use of private language, are what have run "The Journey," as well as the earlier, "So It Doesn't Whistle" into the ground...
...Recommended CHARLES A. BEARD...
...There wa...
...It is something which Senator Chandler and his companions ought to learn...
...American Council on Public Affairs...
...The Spoils of Peynton...
...snapped De Lorenzo, "doesn't Congress...
...At past the per pie ia th* .tracts, aa far aa this writer ceaM detaraila* ware '¦.different abaet tb* Klae la their naanh...
...But most of all, even those of us who feel we've gotten a bad deal over here, those who dislike—or even hate—the British, all realize that whether we like it or not, we miMt get along with our British allies...
...But we may hope that some day, in their own time and m their own fashion, the Russian people will realize the ideals of their rebel thinkers who loved liberty, of the humanistic radical and liberal intelligentsia of the generations before the Revolution...
...Ferrer ft Riaehart...
...at waeaS ta*y •*••<- aa aaa aid...
...Mscmillan...
...fterasew asaid ¦ allca stars...
...Th* .arpri.iap waraith af the r...
...Motoer has, hee> " > uto arrange for a Moscow-to-Mexico visa...
...which eea feaaelea' m»w nfiWtui wkt haa* erwetcttd ¦e weeta aa* aa r ¦ te cam* Tk* little Dae...
...Thinking of Debs THE spirit of Eugene Victor Debs is very much alive in the world...
...They'd have talked with some of the thousands of doughboys who've been entertained in British homes, who've received cakes and tea, served by eager and friendly British women as soon as they got off the boat...
...Merino Cajty ithe new abode of Constancia De La Mora, whose In furt e Splendour gave an account of her (Stoiihoid) activitiat ii $a<i;: She has a daughter in the Soviet Union...
...I print them ante by side as exhibit A for the history ef jenrnstmm italt-8 hmc aacEivns ovation on tovm or irranrrs at una Br Hobi rr Birert Special to the Herald Tribune NAPLaS...
...Ferrer as Iago came thnaqajh maeaer as The Leer...
...Harpers...
...Among the voices of protest and anger was that of the President of the Church, a prominent leader of the Republican Party in that baili...
...The spontaneous variety that sprung from mass revolts is no more to the taste of the Kremlin rulers than of any other established governments...
...GERALD BRENAN...
...Henry Holt and Company...
...He'd know a little of how the American pilot feels when he sees the welcome red, white and blue markings on the wings of the accompanying Spitfires...
...Or this "A Communist Party that is taking on more and more the functions and psychology of a combination Rotary dub and Tiatiimal Association of Manufacturers, under Soviet conditions, is not likely to be a tocchbeaxar" of international ^evolution...
...And how many times have the dispatches from abroad been quoted as if they mare the Tory Gospels themselves—when they were the alltoo-fallible reports of superficial journalists...
...You mean to say...
...Those of us who "sweat out" the planes and sometimes see them never come back, realize this...
...Whst's the matter...
...But he has not been able to rise out of a certain posiness and pretension which all of us sported in our college years...
...But why go on...
...I shall never forget Eugene Debs, a man of the people and a great Socialist" Unwrapping the Russian Riddle By tUmm LYONS THE RUSSIAN ENIGMA...
...ROBERT PEKK WARREN...
...During the past two weeks thoughts about him have been pouring in from near and far places...
...Th** ma.< save him the trouble of turning to page two and f." . . . a a a AVat of the Past:—Not that it means anything, but here for your pieasure is a footnote from Jack London's Twc 7ron a...
...And in personal habits and style of living he has been becoming more and more similar to the members of the well-to-do owning and managing class in other lands...
...Seribnera...
...The Russian Enigma...
...This is what gives his writing its high quality...
...As the author underlirjes in his final chapters, a war of the present proportions cannot leave Russia unaffected...
...Compared with her own, the New York Times account of the Austrian invasion was a nfodel of artistry, resraint and good taste...
...As a general rule, the contemporary Communist would know much less about political and economic theory than his predecessor of twenty-five years ago, but much more about turbines, blast-furnaces and new engine models...
...j 'About a year before Debs' death we had built .a beautiful new ehurch in Elmhurst, and among its appurtenances was a fine bell which regularly boomed out for all church activities and a special function of which was to toll and ring whenever a member of the ehorch had died...
...He leaves her at the strategic moment when she is about to deliver his child...
...When he asked for whom, I said: 'For Eugene Debs who has just died at the Landlahr Sanitarium.' The man hesitated and replied: 'But he isn't a member of the church, and besides, aint he a red?' To which my answer was: 'He is one of the greatest members of the Church Universal and a better American than you or I could ever hope to be.' The bell was rung, and immediately telePhone calls poured in inquiring what church-member had died...
...It is unfortunately also always invested with a pall of mystic yearnings, and in this too, "The Journey" suffers equally with the earlier work...
...Or to cite another example, how American Post Exchanges are selling British candy and cookies...
...For if they had, the evidence would have been there for them to grasp...
...Nor is this all...
...held ap.a all pelitical circles...
...I'm to have a real interview with him next time I'm in town, and I hope to see Aneurin Bevin—so I ought to have tales to tell...
...Chamberlin's book is a very masterpiece of condensation...
...One reason why Stalin made every effort to stay out of war was that he appreciated the dangers and the problems that such an experience would create for his system of personal rule and one-party dictatorship...
...aa ¦tpapklea Wba tkat anhappr Httl...
...The portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man genre is always interesting...
...Except for this information, it was a pleasure to close the book...
...And these things make us a little more tolerant of the British than Senator Chandler appears to be...
...aad remarked: "No Negro would dare be aaU-Semitic in front af rac " ~* Ah...
...VTadstg...
...We pay a little less attention to evidences of what he thinks is lack of cooperation than he does...
...If it is, his next will be something to make the critics shout with Joy...
...WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN, dintfciguished among other things for his waakly w column of comment in The New Leader, has written the kind of book that Bernard Shaw would have called The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Russia...
...People always look at faces so blindly...
...De Lorenzo answered...
...2.75...
...The reader wall had the nit ridiculous falsification of historical truth on page one...
...tic dtp ia Hair, ar it waa...
...He deserves to be Ikdened to...
Vol. 26 • November 1943 • No. 46
