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...these two points he has compressed into 243 pages an inclusive study of war propaganda, a rapid but convincing survey of innovations in warfare finance, an exposition of the fallacies underlying the idea that the defeated force can be made to pay the cost of War. While he discounts lurid stories of wholesale destruction, Professor Knight leans to the theory that the next war, like the last, is likely to be a war of positions, fought with deadlocked mass armies, and consequently more costly in terms of human life than the last. With no concrete solution to offer, he nevertheless...
Last week three more feminine autobiographies were published. The silliest of the new crop was a muddled concoction called And I'd Do If Again, written with a lurid, Sunday-supplement archness, by a daughter of the wealthy and picturesque Crocker family of San Francisco, detailing her travels in the Far East, her love affairs with a Japanese baron, a Chinese tyrant, a Borneo chieftain and a four-yard boa constrictor named Kaa. Aimee Crocker first became aware of the lure of the Orient when, at the age of 10, she demanded that her mother buy her an elaborate...
TIME TO KILL-Rearden Conner- Knopf ($2.50). Character study of a pathological killer, written with lurid evocations of the bloody details, by the author of Shake Hands with the Devil...
Most painstaking bit of lurid reporting of the week was Toronto Star Correspondent Pierre van Paassen's reconstruction in Barcelona of how the Citadel of Huesca was captured from the Whites...
...last week U. S. preparations for the XIth Olympic Games in Berlin this month had included international discourtesy, financial trouble, interminable bureaucratic bickering (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.). Last week they were enlarged to include a lurid and unnecessary scandal which made front pages on two continents...