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...EUROPA IN LIMBO-Robert Briffault- Scribner...
Robert Stephen Briffault has had a more than respectable reputation among anthropologists ever since he wrote The Mothers (1927). When he was 59, he published his first novel, Europa (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935). So many more readers were titillated by its scandalous scenes of pre-War continental society than were bored by its ponderous length that the book soared into the best-selling class. Last week a sizable audience was waiting with shocking hopefulness for the sequel, Europa In Limbo. But purple passages in the latest Briffault were thin and few. An earnest, disillusioned, clumsily Voltairian novel, its lean streaks...
Taking up the fortunes of Julian Bern, cosmopolitan young English intellectual, where Europa dropped them. Author Briffault discovers his hero holidaying in Belgium with Zena, his current mistress. War has been declared, and the German invasion quickly comes too close for comfort. Julian and Zena escape to England, hoping to live there quietly as spectators of a world gone mad. They soon find both England and their chosen role impossible. Zena goes back to her native Russia; Julian despairingly enlists. Thereafter the narrative is governed less by probability than by convenience: coincidences pop up as required, scenes shift and actors...
...week after the fire officials chugged down New York Bay to meet the Europa, bringing sad-eyed Dr. Hugo Eckener to help the investigation. Saying little, the world's No. 1 airship expert poked about the twisted girders of his greatest zeppelin, talked to survivors, watched the newsreels for the first time, took an active part in the inquiry...
...Marxists," France and Russia, were tackled next. Germany's ambition is to see a solid Fascist wedge driven between the two, to dominate central Europe as she did before the War-with this difference. Before the War, Germany was the central figure of Mittel-Europa, scheming for a pan-Germany from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf. Then Italy was a wavering German satellite. Now she is the virtual Boss of central Europe and pan-Germany must wait upon Italy's permission even to penetrate the Danube basin economically. To sell their new solidarity to Britain and France...