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...been a bad war strategist. Prime Minister Churchill responded to this criticism last week by remaining Defense Minister also. If he had been a bad strategist, his critics could only place their hopes in his newly appointed advisers. Even the most captious critics could agree with a Sketch editorial which said: "The Prime Minister, if he has not exactly bowed to the storm, has at least inclined his head in recognition of its existence...
...reach the General Staff, which it would not. It was "as if you dashed glassfuls of water into a forest fire." And yet "it's no one's fault. . . . Everybody struggles as hard as he can to make war look like war." Their business was "to sketch the face of a war that has no face" and, all but certainly...
...paper shortage have yet touched the Harvard Advocate, and the December issue, despite its grimmer gray exterior, presents the old material in the old way with only a touch less than its usual technical excellence. Marvin Barertt's lead story, "Home Life," is a particularly skillful sketch of a degenerate family, and its distilled essence of moral and physical decay, engenedered, by apparently objective description of voluptuous decadence, savors strongly of the works of William Faulkner. Unfortunately, however, the author has little of Faulkner's control or understanding of the literary dynamite with which he is playing, and the result...
Also included in the book: a brief biographical sketch of Lincoln by Editor Lorant; important documents (among them the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation) in Lincoln's handwriting; the photographic record of the assassination...
Total Espionage is 1) an analysis of Nazi methods, organization, successes; 2) a sketch of the piteous failure of the Allies in the same field; 3) a heartening if somewhat thin prognosis based on the awakening of the Western Hemisphere to danger and to action. By its very nature such a book can be neither complete nor wholly reliable. But it is the fullest treatment of an absorbing and important subject so far in World...