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Last spring Thomas Lamont and William Rose Benet filled the pages of The Saturday Review of Literature trying to define a capitalist. Last month, as an off shoot of that quarrel, Mr. Lamont contributed What a Capitalist Reads, a list of 14 books he had read during the summer, following his doctor's order to "take things more easily." The most topical, with Mr. Lamont's critical observations...
...Abram Hewitt's 80, Edward Hewitt's 77-the picture unfolds of a day of unchecked productivity, where wealth was the reward of ingenuity, and the common good was the result of wealth, when patents, like decorations for heroism, were signed by the President, and the capitalist who backed a new mechanical device to better the lot of mankind (and make a private fortune) was the equal of a general, a commissar, a duke, or a mechanic...
...announcements, Viacheslav Molotov did not see correspondents. He and Joseph Stalin had much to ponder; for one thing, if the agreements meant all that they seemed to mean, nationalist Russia had agreed to go international again, in full accord with capitalist powers...
...each member of this band, Russia is an island lashed by angry capitalist waves. Each distrusts the outer world. Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...
Stalin, with lingering suspicions of the capitalist democracies and a bitter knowledge of the horror that war has brought to Russian soil, distrusts the U.S.-British policy of heavy bombing, believing that it is aimed at saving lives rather than crushing the enemy. Victory in his eyes calls for an immediate, all-out second front, regardless of casualties...