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...second speaker on the program is Ralph Barton Perry '29, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, whose book, "Shall Not Perish From The Berth," brands isolation as "short-sighted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mumford, Pierce, and Perry to Speak Before Defense League | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

Chairman of American Defense, Harvard Group, Perry wrote in "Shall Not Perish From the Earth," "Isolationism is both short-sighted and unfaithful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perry and Mumford Are to Speak For Defense League | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

...Theodore N. Kaufman's book, Germany Must Perish!, contributed nothing to U. S. letters but it was newsworthy. TIME definitely pronounced his plan "grisly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

Germany Must Perish! proved to be a brief (104-page) enshrinement of a single sensational idea. Since Germans are the perennial disturbers of the world's peace, says the book, they must be dealt with like any homicidal criminals. But it is unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them. "The army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. Taking 20,000 surgeons as an arbitrary number and on the assumption that each will perform a minimum of 25 operations daily, it would take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Modest Proposal | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...Widely traveled, he is especially fond of the Sahara Desert, where, he says, "you look at the horizon all day long and feel that you are staring at eternity." In Biskra he frequented the Algerian salon of Winston Churchill's cousin, Sculptress Clare Sheridan (Arab Interlude). Germany Must Perish! is his first book. "Strictly a one-man job" (he claims he has no organization, no help, no backers), it was worked on for four months. Then he founded the Argyle Press to publish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Modest Proposal | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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