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CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY - W. Somerset Maugham - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Melodrama within melodrama, made credible by Maugham's professional slickness, Christmas Holiday describes the shattering Paris holiday of a safe-&-sane young Englishman. Shatterers are a strip-tease pick up, who tells him about her marriage to a man who murdered for sport; a boyhood friend who is grooming himself to head the OGPU of a future Communist England...
...Remarkable is the case of "D," a 77-year-old college professor, who, when he opened his eyes in the morning, was often assailed by a violent hurricane of fantastic, guilty and obscene thoughts. Although he would try with all his might, D would be unable to get a sane thought in edgewise." Sometimes within half an hour, often within a day, his brainstorms would abate, leaving him depressed but self controlled. Strangely enough, he had no convulsive movements, would lie passively in bed while racked by his thoughts. These brainstorms, believes Dr. Brickner, are convulsions of ideas, similar...
...German invasion of Poland had waged an overpowering Blitzkrieg against the Presidential hopes of all other Democrats and of many Republicans. Temporarily in the background was John Nance Garner, who believes with "The Boss" that the sane course is a return to international...
While the Gallup and other polls continued to show a majority cross-section of the U. S. for repeal, Congressional mail ranged 10-to-1 to 1,000-to-1 against. Even discounting half that mail as inspired by such professional rainmakers as Father Coughlin, there were enough sane, sincere letters in the downpour to give shivers to Congressmen, notoriously the most mail-pervious group...
...would have found it more profitable if less pat. Souvarine's Stalin, published first in French several years ago, the work of a onetime member of the Executive of the Communist International, is practically unique among latter-day Bolshevist or ex-Bolshevist writings in carrying authority for the sane Western mind. With the knowledge of an insider and the detachment of a historian, Souvarine shows how Stalin succeeded to Lenin's power, how Socialism miscarried in his hands, and why the Soviet-German non-aggression pact (TIME, Aug. 28) was no surprise...