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...world with Hugh Herndon Jr. in 1931, offered his services to the Canadian Government in Ottawa. In Sofia, where his father, George H. Earle, onetime Pennsylvania Governor, is Minister to Bulgaria, Son George H. IV, 23, decided to return to the U. S. to join the air force. "To awaken America to her own desperate situation before it's too late," mustachioed Sculptor Stuart Benson, 63, onetime ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France, planned to tour the U. S., show films of the war zones. In Hollywood, Ecdysiast Faith Bacon announced plans to go to England...
...Santiago, Chileans thronged to join a newly formed "sixth column," organized to "awaken our democracy from the fatal sleep of misplaced confidence...
...forbid that they should awaken to see the crack-up in the moral fibre of their fellow citizens-the "not-our-war" people, the "what-can-we-do-anyway" people, the "scurry-to-cover" people! Yes, "anything short of war," and if that "anything" brings war, then let us show that cowardice is not the predominant trait of our nation...
...from our elders. We have faith that they are willing and able to take up, with us this unpopular cause and fight for it until we win. College professors are not sheep. Many, too many, have taken the easy road of silence, but we are sure that when they awaken to the urgency of the issue before us, their leadership will again count as heavily as it has in the past...
Since then no first-class U. S. work in this field had appeared to vie with H. G. Wells's Anticipations or The Sleeper Awakes. But this week one did. The First to Awaken is Granville Hicks's first considerable work of fiction. It would seem to indicate that when Writer Hicks resigned from the Communist Party last autumn he began to live again. Nicely, almost winningly written, in a sort of First Reader style, and full of sunny, skillful little pen drawings by Collaborator Richard Bennett, the book should fascinate those readers who would just as soon...