Word: durrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good book for such a short visit in a country that presents so many aspects and such varied problems. Harry Franck is--as always--immediately disarming as he informs you in the preface "But," you cry, "only thirty days!" Yes, but that seems as long as the erudite Dr. Durrant or the intrepid Carveth Wells or the portly Alexander Woollcott spent there--yet they each got a book out of it." Perhaps, Mr. Franck himself best sums up the value of this book's contribution to knowledge about the Soviet when he adds "You couldn't get the whole truth...
...When a U.S. cinema company was stranded for a while on Mandoan territory Mandoans got their first exciting taste of civilization. Old-timers wanted no more of it. but a few progressives, led by smart San Talal, began to dream of modernizing Mandoa. Meantime in London careful young Maurice Durrant, partner in Prince's Tours, Ltd., was carving his career. He heard of Mandoa as a virgin territory for his firm, a "sphere of influence" that might be developed for England. And his ne'er-do-well brother Bill was beginning to prove a hampering embarrassment. Killing...