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...Chatty Cassandra...
...Cassandra, but an increasingly chatty one, Prophet Wells fills 431 pages with his latest, most garrulous forecast...
ESSAYS IN PERSUASION-John Maynard Keynes-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).* When England in 1925 returned to the international gold standard only a few economists, generally conceded to be crazy, bewailed the fact. Most famous of these few was Cassandra Keynes, as he calls himself, as his opponents love to call him. Writing with such style and pith that even runners may read and understand, he has here collected "the croakings of twelve years." Most of his earnest persuasions, that persuaded few people at the time, have turned out to be dismal prophecies. Specimen (1921): "The unwillingness of American investors...
...Cassandra-Prophecy...
...soldier has rushed into print, but not often on the side of the angels. Major Karl-Axel Bratt, Swedish staff officer and member of the committee considering Sweden's national defense policy, has written a book about the next war, but against it, not for it. Like many another Cassandra, Major Bratt thinks that unless Something Is Done the next war will be upon us before we know...