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...PEACE BUT A SWORD-Vincent Sheean-Doubleday, Doran...
...sound reporter keeps his private opinions out of his copy. James Vincent Sheean was once such a reporter. In Personal History he chronicled the stages by which he went on to become a crack foreign correspondent, began to take sides violently, learned that he was "no longer a newspaper man." But Ex-Reporter Sheean made an even better living by writing slick-paper magazine stories, historical novels with up-to-date political implications, touring the U. S. lecture circuit. Last year he turned to personalized history again. Not Peace but a Sword, his firsthand account of that disastrous twelvemonth...
...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...
...Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby, Carl Van Doren, Vincent Sheean. But many of the delegates (German, Italian, Spanish) could claim no country...