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When the curtain rises on the post-war world the scene may be something like this: 6,000,000 German soldiers fleeing in disorder; 5,000,000 foreign workers and prisoners of war abandoning Germany; 2,000,000 Hungarian, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Spanish soldiers pouring home from the Eastern front; 3,000,000 Poles straggling back to their wasted territory; 50,000,000 Soviet citizens surging back into western Russia...
Such is Author Michael Straight's conception of the post-war scene. His Make This the Last War attempts to provide a plan-of-life not only for these desperate multitudes but for people the world over. Son of the late Willard Straight (founder of The New Republic, of which Author Straight is an editor) and brother of R.A.F. Acting Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight, Author Straight took a triple-first degree in economics at Cambridge University, worked in the State Department as economist of the European Division. Now 26, he is awaiting induction as an aviation cadet...
...beknighted Nobel Peace Prizewinner Sir Norman Angell. At 68 Sir Norman has written 32 books, sat in the British Parliament, worked five years in the U.S. as a ranch hand. The British Empire's most noted apologist in America, Sir Norman's latest views on the post-war world have caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to select Let the People Know as its February choice along with Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary...
...ills fails because of its faulty diagnosis and its naive medication. Wars arise from basic instabilities in men's attempts to satisfy their wants, psychological as well as material. Merely setting up a new super-state, or putting sharp teeth in a thoroughly dead corpse, are hopeless. The "post-war world," if it is to get anywhere, must attack specific problems on a broad scale. Details of organization, beyond the initial agreement to attack the seats of infection, will take care of themselves...
After the Armistice he returned to the U.S., wrote Hitchy-Koo, 1919, then doubled back to Europe. There he married fashionable, Louisville-bred Linda Lee Thomas, and with the help of a $1,000,000 (coal mines, timberland) bequest from a grandfather, plunged into post-war international society at its gaudiest. The Porters' Paris ménage had a room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns...