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...Prophet H. G. Wells, 79, who foresaw the atom bomb 31 years ago, predicted the imminent end of mankind. In his latest book, Mind at the End of its Tether, written last year and serialized in British and U.S. newspapers last week, he wrote: "Homo sapiens, as he has been pleased to call himself is, in his present form, played out. The stars in their courses have turned against man and he has to give place to some other animal, better adapted to the fate that closes in. This new animal may be of an entirely alien strain...
...book, however, is the first effective treatment of the Marxian view of world history yet published. Dr. Sweezy is a convinced Marxist--the reader cannot escape that fact--but his thought is refreshingly free of the usual overtones of a commentator dangling at the end of Browder's tether. This volume is the work of a pure Marxian Socialist, not of a self-contradicting member of any "radical" party...
...allies and sharpened Moscow's cry for a second front. The warning from the Don was this: It was the Red Army, not the German Army, which had suffered the most in the winter campaign. The Red Army was by no means at the end of its fighting tether, but it was coming nearer to the end every...
...French Somaliland was near the end of its tether. Last week Vichy, pleading for U.S. food for Djibouti, tried desperately to enlist U.S. sympathy for the victims of the brutal British. The British had their own tale of brutality. Djibouti's Vichyfrench authorities, they said, were driving natives out of the colony and into the encircling British lines at guns' point, shooting them if they tried to return...
Benito Mussolini was on the run last week, but he had not quite reached the end of his diplomatic tether, although disasters less terrible than the Libyan rout have toppled regimes in every century. With bases in the Balearic Islands, in Spain and in Spanish Morocco he might still retrieve his position in the Mediterranean; with Ceuta in Morocco he might even make Gibraltar untenable and cut one of Britain's supply lines...