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...Maurier's Rebecca, one of the three best-selling novels of 1939, was an exceedingly well-told problem story of the troubles of being a second wife; it was tailor-made for the land of high divorce rates. Frenchman's Creek, just as well-told, is even nearer that bull's-eye where best-sellers are scored: the heart of the U.S. housewife...
...once press for more Indian war effort and less talk about Indian independence, the Raj was soon disillusioned. As an experienced power politician, as well as a high-minded political philosopher, Pandit Nehru probably realized that Britain might promise almost anything if the Axis came just a little nearer India's riches. Said he: "I am not prepared perpetually to remain under British subjection out of sheer fear of Japanese or German aggression...
...Buck. Pearl Buck has a perception of human life and a prose style which combine most of the vices of the Lang, Leaf & Myers translation of The Iliad with some of the virtues of the Old Testament, Tolstoy, and the early Gertrude Stein. Her five senses are nearer the page than those of most authors. At her best she has a remarkable talent for telling a thing so that it seems not to be told about but actually to happen. Yet her narrative is never quite heroic and her superbly ordered peasant simplicities keep sieving-off into the remote beauties...
Superficially, this made it appear as if a great galvanization of India's already promising war effort might be coming nearer. The Congress, with some 3,600,000 dues-paying members, is the most potent political body among India's 240,000,000 Hindus. The Moslem League, strongest party among India's 80,000,000 Moslems, came out for full support to Britain a year ago. But the Congress has long insisted on some British guarantee of increased self-government for India as a condition of all-out war effort. This week, a group of Indian moderate...
This was a showdown. The U.S. and Japan were nearer war than at any moment of their history. In a speech that was like a cry of pain and rage-and also of disappointment-Japanese Tojo called on his people to purge Asia of British and American exploitation...