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Common Sense has published a remarkable document - five letters exchanged between Mohandas K. Gandhi (then a political prisoner in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona) and India's Viceroy, Viscount Wavell. In his foreword Newsman Louis Fischer, who made the letters public, claimed that Gandhi's recent conciliatory proposal to Wavell for Indian independence (TIME, Aug. 28) was a "sequel" to this correspondence. That might or might not be true. But as historic and human documents, the letters were unique. Each of the correspondents was an arch-type-Gandhi of the saintly man turned political crusader...
Says Harvard's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, William Ernest Hocking (Contemporary Science and the Idea of God) in his foreword: "May this majestic poem find its way into the familiar literary friendship of many readers, and contribute to the sense of spiritual kinship with the most gifted people of Asia, akin to us both in blood and language...
...collecting of U.S. folklore, saw the Project disbanded before he could publish much of his material. For five years Botkin continued to collect and edit the folklore included in this whopping, hodgepodge anthology, to which folk-loving Carl Sand burg (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) has written the folksy foreword...
...Book. Of her novel ex-Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who is himself an author (Mission to Moscow), says in a foreword: "The Rainbow [is] typical of modern, wartime Russia. First [it] is the work of a woman. Second, it is the work . . . of a Pole. Third, it is the work of a writer who has taken an active part in the political as well as literary affairs...
Also devoted to the plight of Europe's children is They Shall Inherit the Earth, by Czech Novelist and Playwright Otto Zoff (John Day; $3). It is written from the relief workers' point of view, with an enthusiastic foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; its greatest lack is the statistics that would give substance to its disconnected case histories and its well-intentioned but sketchy stories of distress among the 100,000,000 children of the Axis-occupied countries. Most shocking question it raises: When Europe's uprooted children grow up, what will they do to a world...