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Shudders will go up a lot of spines because of James Burnham's new book (The Struggle for the World-John Day; $3) published just five days after President Truman's historic message to Congress (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Burnham's purpose is neither to create nor allay shudders, but to stiffen the national spine...
...argument has been made before, sometimes with more tact, sometimes with more violence-never with such a compelling combination of chilling logic and prophetic fire. Everybody will want to disbelieve it. "Fascist warmongering" will "be among the gentler terms applied to it. Only one defense of Burnham's book can be made: it is-appallingly-true...
...Last, Long Chance. If a policy of vacillation is followed, Burnham believes that the Communists will be able to pick their own time for war between Russia and the U.S., and that Russia would win such a war even though the U.S. had superiority in atomic weapons. In the absence of a strong U.S. political policy to win world leadership, even a preventive war now by the U.S. against Russia would not end the threat of Communist world domination. But-just possibly-the U.S. might achieve a political policy strong enough to break the Communist drive, and thus avoid...
...Money. With Torrio, he pushed south and west across Chicago and into the saloons, gambling joints and dance halls of suburban Burnham, Stickney and Cicero. He built his own army. By 1924 he commanded 700 men, was making $100,000 a week and lusting for more. But Dion O'Banion, a murderous Irishman with a sweet smile and a passion for flowers, stood...
Frederic M. Burnham...