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...Laski- Viking ($2.50). OMNIPOTENT GOVERNMENT, THE RISE OF THE TOTAL STATE AND TOTAL WAR - Ludwig von Mises - Yale ($3.75). In their most recent books, Harold Laski and Ludwig von Mises write about the same world crisis. But a Zulu savage, should he be miraculously endowed with the ability to comprehend fairly complicated English, would hardly recognize it as the same. To Laski, the British socialist, the breakdown has been caused by a century of unbridled economic individualism and the cure is the traditional Marxist specific: let government take over the means of production. To Mises, the Austrian free-trade economist...
...caught with the pre-invasion tension which gripped the rest of the world. Some of them were even talking about the price of lettuce and the tulips in Birdcage Walk. As at so many other critical periods in World War II, the British did not seem to comprehend the mighty portents of the hour. Or did they? It was too puzzling for Teutonic minds to solve...
...many young officers, said Annapolisman Baldwin, are "yes men." Too many lack initiative. Too many, on the other hand, "exercise the prerogatives of rank without recognizing its responsibilities." They have become "puffed up with importance and false pride; too few of them comprehend the one absolutely indispensable requirement of leadership, care of their...
...successive days the birds had come, scattering destruction around his coral fortress. But these were new birds, smaller, wheeling towards him in greater swarms, coming down on him in screaming dives. Before the Emperor's little man burrowed frantically into his coconut and concrete pillbox he would comprehend that the enemy was moving into his Marshall Islands domain for the kill...
...most up-to-date picture of Germany from within. It is the picture of a war machine that is being run without provision for maintenance. It is coughing and bucking, and a couple of broken pistons are gouging into the cylinder block. Basic reason: the Nazi inability to comprehend the fallacies of their own "total" war doctrine...