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...celebrate their first 125 years of publishing Harper & Bros, this week reissued these two neatly bound and boxed volumes by an Englishwoman, whose name, once known to all U.S. literates, has been all but forgotten. Harriet Martineau visited the U.S. only 20 years after the bitter War of 1812, first published in 1838 this account of what she saw. But few books could be more timely. Reason: few Britons have ever seen the U.S. so clearly or reported what they saw with such understanding and fairness. But Harriet Martineau's book is important in another way. It looks, through...
...star by John Van Druten, who wrote "Old Acquaintace" and who is a master of the art of gently delineating the foibles of women. To recount the plot would be like dissecting a cobweb. It is enough to say that it concerns a rich and charming but unmarried Englishwoman who is sent to America in 1909 to find herself a husband. The resulting play is frankly nothing but a pleasant comedy of manners. It makes no pretensions to anything but amusement, and it goes about it in a pleasant, slow-paced, and literate manner that is a pleasant change from...
...Confirmation came immediately from a Miss Phyllis Harrop, first British woman to escape. An anti-vice crusader attached to the Foreign Office, she told reporters in Chungking last week: "My houseboy was killed-bayoneted in the stomach. My [woman servant] was raped by three or four Japanese soldiers. . . . An Englishwoman I knew was first slashed in the face with a soldier's belt, then raped...
...circle began in the '20s. Maxim Litvinoff, who had married a plump, middle-class Englishwoman, set out to end the isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia. He delighted and confounded Englishmen with his bluntness, his cunning, his tenacity. At the Disarmament Conference in 1927 he surprised everyone by demanding, of all things, disarmament. "Propaganda," the delegates muttered. "It is propaganda," agreed Litvinoff. "Propaganda for peace." His pet idea was security for Russia through nonaggression. He gave and got promises to and from most of Russia's neighbors not to aggress...
Leslie Charles Bowyer Lin, whose father is a Chinese surgeon in Singapore, whose mother is an Englishwoman, whose small daughter (like himself) is a British subject, whose present wife is a U.S. citizen, last week awaited Senate action on a special bill the House had just passed to make him and daughter U.S. citizens. Would-be Citizen Lin is better known as Leslie Charteris, bemonocled creator of Simon Templar, "The Saint." ∙∙ In Minneapolis 37-year-old Theodor Broch, ex-Mayor of Narvik, applied for U.S. citizenship. Under Nazi sentence of death he escaped from Norway in June...