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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lenin during the Civil War, but Lenin and Trotsky together were too smart for him. In Author Souvarine's sober account of these years following the revolution, the predicament of Lenin stands out painfully: plunged by his own victory into a chaos which compelled him to backtrack step by step on the Socialist program, sick, knowing his closest henchmen to be politically imprudent, like Trotsky, or unscrupulous, like Stalin. After his death it took Stalin just two years to make himself impregnable...
EUROPE ON THE EVE-Frederick L. Schuman-Knopf ($3.50). A night-must-fall account of Europe's power politics in the tragic era, 1933-39, by a thoroughgoing scholar whose hatred for Naziism (with which, he claims, British Tories made a prearranged deal at Munich) leads to wishful-thinking...
BETRAYAL IN CENTRAL EUROPE-G. E. R. Gedye-Harper ($3.50). Fluent, heated, colorful account of Austria from 1925 through Anschluss, with a bitter windup on Czecho-Slovakia, by the much-expelled foreign correspondent of the New York Times...
Where the War makes news in such general fields as music, science, education, it will be reported in TIME'S general departments. For example, this week for war songs see p. 68, for the evolution of poison gases see p. 51, for an account of the evacuation of London school children...
...Warsaw last week Associated Press Correspondent Lloyd Lehbras got one of those scoops that every reporter dreams of. While he was telephoning the A. P. man in Budapest, German planes appeared over Warsaw, and Correspondent Lehbras dictated an exciting eye-witness account of the raid, which the A. P. promptly relayed to the U. S. Excerpts...