Word: sheean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patiently revising his excellent and informative "Inside Europe" to fit changing political scene. And his "Inside Asia" does as much for that continent as his first book did for the scene of the current catastrophe. Which is saying a great deal. . . ."Not Peace But a Sword" is Vincent Sheean's latest book, a history of Europe from March, 1938 to March 1939, It would be interesting to see what changes the book would undergo if Mr. Sheean were to rewrite it now that he has forsworn Soviet Russia once and for all. Nevertheless, a fine book...
Born. To (James) Vincent Sheean, 39, war correspondent, peripatetic journalist, novelist, best-selling autobiographer (Personal History, Not Peace but a Sword), and Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 24: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ibs. 10z. Name: Ellen Gertrude...
Veterans. Of the free-lance journalists who had written most passionately of war and the power politics back of it, not one had seen action on any front last week. Ernest Hemingway was at his ranch in Montana, working on a new book. Vincent Sheean was in Manhattan, awaiting the birth of a child to his English wife. Pierre van Paassen, onetime Toronto Star correspondent in Spain, author of the bestseller, Days of Our Years, was on board the U. S. liner Manhattan, bound for New York...
...Reporter Sheean begins with a bus ride through London which set him musing on England's insularity. "In such a state," he concludes, "what preoccupations can there be other than the desire to make money, and more money, and to keep it . . . with no thought for the world that crowds steadily in upon this would-be tight little island." He was in Spain when Franco drove to the Mediterranean in April 1938, when Barcelona fell. He visited Austria during the savage Jew-baiting that followed the Anschluss, attended the Evian Conference and pours scorn on it: "To the best...
...Sheean spent September in Czechoslovakia waiting for the war which never came. Instead came "the series of blunders by which the democratic powers surrendered the domination of Europe to Fascism . . . and condemned Europe and the world to a certainty, as I believe, of general...