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...DRAGON WAKES-Edgar Ansel Mowrer-Morrow...
Edgar Ansel Mowrer is former head of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...
...Chinese since the "remarriage" of the Kuomintang and the Communists, their unexpected bravery when properly led in battle, the success of the Communist-inspired, guerrilla tactics. They particularly make the point that Japan cannot hold more than the cities and lines of communication. She has occupied China, declares Mowrer, "about as effectively as a few swimmers can be said to 'occupy' a swimming pool...
...Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer's Germany Puts the Clock Back...
With the French Chamber not due to reconvene until November, Premier Edouard Daladier last week announced that he would call an extraordinary session at "a fairly early date." If the pugnacious Premier does so, then, as Chicago Daily News's Edgar Ansel Mowrer cabled last week: "Everything seems to be set for one of the finest political battles France has witnessed, even in these eventful years. . . . By denouncing the 40-hour law (TIME, Aug. 29), without asking any so-called equivalent sacrifices from French capitalists, Premier Daladier smashes the Popular Front or what was left...