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BETHEL MERRIDAY - Sinclair Lewis -Doubleday, Doran...
...Sinclair Lewis has never lost his ability to bat it out, but Sinclair Lewis' ability to think it through has been woefully intermittent. This intermittence is the kindest explanation of Novelist Lewis' great gallery of flops. Two years ago the last of these, The Prodigal Parents, took a beating even from reviewers who recognized Lewis as still the most important novelist in the U. S. It was a wayward, shallow, cantankerous mummery in which Lewis exalted the wisdom of a motor dealer at the expense of his stupidly pinko kids...
Bethel Merriday is a distinctly better book, and its comparative goodness may be instructive to historians of Sinclair Lewis' career. With a talent that has more hop on the ball than nine or ten ordinary writers, Lewis wrote his memorable novels not when he had a "good idea" but when parts of the U. S. social scene stirred him to sardonic, passionate-and first-hand-study. Arrowsmith is a classic example, and it is with Arrowsmith that Bethel Merriday may be fairly compared...
Conservative Back-Bencher Captain Victor Cazalet snorted that the Government, by mollycoddling the Arabs, risked giving the world an impression that Britain is "prepared to make terms with the enemy." Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair argued that the League of Nations should have been consulted, accused the Government of "presuming to be the judge of its own case...
...Agency has friends in high places. Labor Leader Clement R. Attlee and Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair objected on the ground that Britain had no right to put into effect its last year's White Paper zonings in Palestine without first obtaining the consent of the League of Nations, under which the country is held as a mandate. Mr. Attlee forced the Government to agree on a general debate this week, and introduced a motion of censure which will amount to the first vote of confidence in the Government to be held since the war's start. Even...