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...potatoes, must be taken with a little salt. Readers will be considerably baffled to know how this U. S. investigator, who speaks only English and German, managed to evoke such dangerous confidences from the most illiterate classes in Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia through interpreters. Author Spivak is a shade too ready to forecast the collapse of tyrannies, to overestimate the potency of the rebellious spirit. His book is valuable as a document of a kind that rarely emerges from the censored murk of dictatorship...
...like to thank you warmly for your fair, intelligent symposium of the Hearst books [TIME, April 27]. Do I think that because it seemed to me that you gave me a shade the better of it? Perhaps. At any rate, I'm deeply grateful...
...names are a byword and a hissing, they are revered by radicals the world over. Marx, the Holy Ghost of the Soviet Trinity, author of Capital and the Communist Manifesto, is now a familiar spook even to men-in-the-street, but few newspaper readers have ever encountered the shade of Engels. Until Gustav Mayer's German life of Engels was last week translated into English, there was no biography of him available to U. S. readers...
...queer team to work so long and well together. Their beginnings had little in common. Marx was a poor German Jew; Engels was the promising son and heir of well-to-do textile manufacturers. His family were deeply pained when he became an adolescent pinko; as his political shade deepened to red their annoyance turned to alarm. And from their point of view, the strangest thing about Friedrich was that he was a good business man. He made such a suc cess of the English mill at Manchester that he was eventually made a partner, in spite of his regrettable...
...shade of a murdered Indian returns to lift tables, answer questions by raps. Ben Sexton, a mean skeptic, tries to hold the spirit down by wrestling the table. He gets laid out good & proper...