DESERTER'S' ODYSSEY
Dane, Allan
Deserters' Odyssey Reviewed Jfty ALLAN DAME MY LIFE IN THE RED ARMY. By Fred Virski. Macmillan Company, . Neto York; IMS. 260 pagel $3.50. ^ > v \jr~> ERST* HAND REPORTS OF RUSSIA at war such as...
...Like Will Durant, in his "Ceasar and Christ," Schweitzer accepts Christianity as a spiritual doctrine...
...By Seymour E. Harris...
...In war-time as in peace-time, Soviet life demands ample graft, logrolling, bribery...
...Liberal's Influence Reviewed by RUDOLPH L. WEISSMANN SAVING AMERICAN" CAPITALISM...
...After this thorough search, Albert Schweitzer comes to the following conclusions: "The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the'Klngdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and who died to give His work its final consecration, never had any existence...
...Nevertheless, It a monumental work...
...based on the attitude that "the Germans can't be any worse"—and then the new, determined resolution to fight, due in large measure to first-hand acquaintance with Nazi atrocities...
...ThERE IS NO RECORD of the existence of Jesus Christ...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf...
...O. H Taylor shrewdly points out that American business never accepted the nineteenth century liberal creed of business in England and sought and won much active, governmental help...
...f. Fred Virski was a young Polish student when the war broke out Finding himself in the Soviet sphere, he was drafted into the Red Army, saw action on the southern front in, IHlJwas wounded, and ^deserted" the Polish army of Gen...
...The Gospels place his life in.the reign of Emperor Tiberius, Herod, and Pontius Pilate...
...A serious fault is now being overcome...
...both consumers' goods and those needed by busnkss, made inevitable a period of excess demand, he takes the Democratic Party to task for cutting taxes in 1945 and the Republican Party for its fiscal policies in 1947-8...
...Recognizing that the accumulation of liquid assets during the war and early postwar period coupled with the non-availability of certain types of...
...One gets away with the realizaton that the Russian people too, strive for the self same things which we ourselves hold dear...
...Out of Virski's description, the average Russian emerges as a responsive, friendly, generous person...
...The ^ditor discusses the inflation problem with his usual vigor...
...Bowles recognizes the part of profits, even generous profits, in a business economy, but warns against not passing on a part of the increase in labor output resulting from reinvestment of profits in the form of increased wages...
...Epistles...
...Allah Dane has written for Public Opinion Quarterly...
...August Claessens is Secretary of the Social Democratic Federation...
...Naturally for a young soldier but perhaps misleading for the American reader are the many references to drunkenness and promiscuity...
...The gratifying aspect of it is the fact that they have not atrophied human warmness and spontaneity...
...Not until later do some references appear, in Josephus and others...
...He proposes an expansion of the functions of the President's Council of Economic Advisers so that by altering taxes and social security payments they could increase or decrease the total flow of purchasing power as the economy moves toward inflation or deflation...
...There is no mention extant of such events in Judea around that time...
...This fact can neither be shaken nor confirmed, by any historical discovery...
...Hence "a regulatory philosophy which puts major emphasis on a system of negative restraints inevitably generates friction between regulations and regulated...
...operation of the NKVD against "traitors"—including the aunt of his Russian companion, hanged on a flimsy charge...
...The council would function only through legislative authority and sharply defined standards...
...The book is hard reading...
...The'challenge is that of devising the means and inventing the techniques to use government creatively, as the food stamp plan of the thirties developed by the Department of Agriculture, This emergency,expedient for sustaining purchasing power—it may be used again—had the support of farmers, processors and dist-ibutors, and of course, those on relief whose diet was improved...
...On the whole, the book will stimulate liberals and should irritate conservatives sufficiently to produce an equally challenging collection...
...a political commissar quizzing the author at length about a postcard he received from abroad...
...The officer listening avidly to the Poles' description of life abroad...
...And so, this is one of the subjects which does not lend itself to rationalism and everyone must make his own conclusions in conformity with his emotions...
...Essentially, he argues, if we are unprepared to accept enough government, we will end up with too much...
...Virski describes the "efficient...
...a sergeant, a nurse, a peasant, a student helping Virski "desert" to the Polish forces— they are genuine Russians, allies of democracy...
...Reviewed by AUGUST CLAESSENS THE QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS: A Critical Study of Its Progrest From Reimarius to Wrede...
...Did Jesus Exist...
...5.00...
...3.00...
...Schweitzer writes: "Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from Him and flows through our time also...
...Sikbrskl then being formed on Huisian---foil- In these two years he managed to get a fine understanding and feeling for Soviet reality—something many a hyper-objective American "scholar" has failed to achieve...
...The "new" liberals, in their scorn of and reaction against the dominant neo - classical economics, are again seriously studying the processes of business and strengthening their creed by an understanding of the business economy...
...413 pages...
...373 pages...
...Among the latter, there are striking descriptions of the complex attitude of the Russian population toward the war: both intense patriotism and defeatism, especially among Ukrainians tod Cossacks but also among Great Russians, during the first months of the "war...
...All in all, the book is replete with details of army life—some typical for army life in any country, others specifically conditioned by the Soviet environment...
...The originals are lost and the copies are variously dated about 70 A. D. tp 150 A. D. It is out of the Gospels that Schweitzer cqmes to his "historical" conclusions...
...He points out that the typical regulatory agency in this country such as the Interstate Commerce Commission, has not been concerned with such issues as maximizing production or employment, but to stamp out specific abuses...
...Durant remarks that if the Gospels are fiction, .then they are a miracle greater than any allegedly performed by Jesus...
...a kind woman just released from jail after six years of suffering...
...Inefficiency and chaos characterized those first months of the war...
...That is why, beneath the smoke of war and the tension of conflict, beyond the personal fate of the author, there is an intrinsic leitmotif of optimism...
...He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism,'and cleihed by modern theology in an historical garb...
...At THE MEETING OF the American Economic Association in Cleveland last December, Professor Harris facetiously referred to the- ''Harris«iBook of the Month Club...
...they are accepted by the population as necessary means of survival...
...Business, by opposing moderate controls and reforms has invited the adoption of socialism especially in Europe...
...In quick succession there have appeared his book on the Marshall Plan, a volume which he edited, Foreign Economic Policy for the United States and the present book...
...Small Business" and "Venture Capital...
...Another is promised later this year ' on Economic Planning of which the prolific Professor Harris is also the editor...
...The abiding and eternal in Jesus Is absolutely independent of historical knowledge...
...It is Up little things that make up the picture of life—a stationmaster warning him to put his shoes under his head when he goes to sleep, so they won't be stolen...
...an army officer proudly displaying his loot from Finland...
...There were many historians and writers living at that time among the Roman and Greek literati and fairly good records were kept'by the Roman authorities...
...Schweitzer laboriously reviews the lives of Jesus written by hundreds of theologians, romanticists, rationalists, sceptics and believers/The German school, the most numerous and diligent in this research, includes by far the greatest scholars, although Schweitzer also examines the works of the French, Dutch, English and other scholars...
...a Polish Communist who fled to Russia before the war recounting his arrests and "repressions" in the USSR...
...Virski got to like the Russian people as much as he got to dislike the regime, and he never engages in the simplest fallacy of identifying the two...
...While a number of" authors deal briefly with taxes the lack i...
...Rudolph L. Weinman-is the author oi several books on economic*— emong Jhem "The New Wall St...
...the stranger on the train hoping for a .freer postwar life...
...By Albert Schweitzer...
...This is true despite the fact that Virski'writes no political treatise and that he was preoccupied largely with problems of personal adjustment^^ survival...
...He admits that the current American liberalism does not as yet have an adequately clear and coherent vision, analysis and program...
...It Is the solid foundation of Christianity...
...And these aie suspect of being interpolations by Christian scribes and copyists...
...Merle Fainsod's "Government and Business in a Mixed Economy," is a thoughtful, but brief essay...
...One of the most interesting papers is that of Governor Chester Bowles...
...BUT BRUTALITY THERE WAS on the Soviet side, too...
...Perhaps he was in earnest...
...v \jr~> ERST* HAND REPORTS OF RUSSIA at war such as MrVVfirski's are both §H entertaining and highly instructive: they are not the rosy products of hasty r- tourists on the "vodka circuit" but honest narratives of life among the "masses...
...In view of the obvious importance of business leadership, a chapter by a leading business executive on how business intends to meet its responsibilities would have added greatly to the book's value and would have provided an realistic touch—also a similar chapter by a labor leader...
...Journal of Higher Education, etc...
...a separate chapter covering a broad overhauling of the tax structure is a serious gap...
...The only solid basis for information about Jesus is in the Gospels and the Acta and...
Vol. 32 • May 1949 • No. 21
