EXPERT REPORT ON WAR AND PEACE
Villard, Oswald Garrison
Expert Report On War And Peace BEYOND ALL FRONTS, by Max Jordan. The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, Wis. $3. Reviewed by Oswald Garrison Villard MAX JORDAN is a remarkable man who obtained...
...From then on he was one of the most outstanding German journalists until 1931, when he became the'continental European broadcaster of the National Broadcasting Company...
...Then the jingoes and sabre-rattlers who hate peace constitutionally will have no chance to emerge, but truly democratic forces will gain ground and take root...
...Jordan is hopeful that when the war is over the upsurge of the oppressed will be tremendous and that the world will have its eyes opened when the full appalling truth is revealed of what has been going on inside the Axis states...
...Jordan has not only written remarkable history which will be strengthened as the years pass, but has really pointed the way to lasting peace in the spirit of true Christianity...
...There is no one living, therefore, who had better opportunities for knowing exactly what happened in Germany from the day of Hitler's appearance upon the scene, or a better background...
...As such he proved that he was a remarkable reporter, equipped with French, English, and Italian in addition to his mother tongue, and having a "nose for news" that alone distinguished him...
...Jordan's book would certainly be on the best seller list...
...Reviewed by Oswald Garrison Villard MAX JORDAN is a remarkable man who obtained his Ph.D...
...As an historical document and as a correct representation of what actually took place, set forth with an obvious desire to be just to all concerned yet determinedly anti-Hitler from cover to cover, it ought to be certainly on the shelf of every library in this country if only because he authoritatively puts an end to many of the falsehoods now going around the nation...
...Jordan, and Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein whom he cites, that there is but "one way of dealing with the German problem—to give German democracy a chance to develop...
...Jordan's demand that we "must learn the lesson of these 30 years and wipe the slate clean after this war...
...No one who reads this volume with an open mind can stand for the folly of Vansittartism, or fail to agree with Dr...
...It is, for example, far superior to William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary, and if there were competent reviewers on all our metropolitan newspapers, Dr...
...He had then been organizing democratic action groups to uphold the ill-fated German republic and, being unable to carry out his plan to become a university teacher, had joined the staff of the Berliner Tageblatt, intellectually one of the 2 or 3 foremost German dailies...
...Once more we will have an opportunity to show whether, in the words of Horace Walpole, we 'know at once how to conquer and to pardon.' " * * * UNFORTUNATELY, few in the present temper of the American and British people with their bitter desire for pure revenge without consideration of the ultimate fact that there can be no prosperous or contented Europe unless there is a prosperous and contented and free Germany, will agree with Dr...
...He was already an American citizen when his 10 years of service in •Berlin for the NBC came to an end, and he joined the staff of the home office in New York...
...in Jena during the last war, and was always an ardent democrat and a believer in republican governments, as I discovered when I met him in Berlin after the restoration of peace...
...We must learn again that human hearts speak the same language everywhere, under the blue skies of Tuscany and on the banks of the Rhine no less than on the mountain ridges of Norway or Greece and in the valleys of Tennessee...
...As a radio recorder he transmitted to this country all the vital news of the fatal events which led so directly to World War II until he came to this country after we entered the war...
...As in the case of the Vienna peace of 1815, a beaten foe who is not penalized and humiliated will ultimately be redeemed as a friend...
...It was to be expected that he would produce a memorable book and he has done so...
...Jordan sees it, is this: "If Germany's democratic and peace-minded elements are given a real chance this time, they will make popular government as workable as it can be in any other part of the world...
...It seems to me that Dr...
...But Dr...
...The only answer, as Dr...
...Of the many that I have read dealing with this tragic period there is none that has impressed me more favorably, because of its calm detachment, its refusal to call names, and the depth of its vision...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 17
