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Pointing out that "even dictators are not immortal," Miss Brittain said that the longer war was delayed, the smaller would be the chance of its coming at all. The success of European statesmen in preventing crises more serious than any that led to the World War from leading to another is the most hopeful element in the present situation...
...Miss Brittain, whose latest book is "Honorable Estate," was a nurse during the war, and has since been actively associated with peace groups. Describing herself as only an observer and "no expert on international law," she traced in her lecture the decline of the anti-war reaction after the war and the rise of the new militarism which came on the heels of the Wall Street crash of 1929. Nothing the new military enthusiasm of the German people, she termed Hitler a "complete religious fanatic" and called his rise to power the most important event since...
From the coal mine town of Bradford, Ala., last week came a unique tale of lynching. According to Special Officer F. L. Brittain of the Alabama By-Products Corp., which runs Bradford's mines, a mob of "several thousand Negroes" gathered outside a beer parlor called the "Bloody Bucket," accused two white men of assaulting a Negro woman in a wood near the "Bloody Bucket," threatened to lynch them...
...best-selling autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain tried to "describe and assess the fate of a young generation ignorantly and involuntarily caught" in the chaos of the War and post-War years. Last week this earnest British writer offered a novel with a theme no less ambitious but a good deal less sharply defined: the relation of the feminist movement, the War and changing social standards to "the private destinies of individuals." The result is another of those curious hybrid volumes that have recently become numerous in English writing-a long (601 pages), formless book, half-tract and half...
...being disgraced for his homosexuality before he was killed in action, fell in love with a cheerful, courageous Harvard graduate who was serving with the British troops. Readers accustomed to scathing portraits of U. S. citizens in British and European fiction are likely to be taken aback by Vera Brittain's eloquent, recurring, heartfelt tributes to U. S. generosity, youth, bravery, virility, as well as by the strange slang she attributes to her U. S. characters. Ruth gives herself to her U. S. lover, is heart broken after his death in the Argonne that she did not bear...