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WORLD'S END-Upton Sinclair-Viking...
...literary, the novels of Upton Sinclair (The Jungle, King Coal, Oil!, Boston, etc.) are not literature. To historians, they are not history. To propagandists, they are not propaganda. But to millions of plain people, they are all three of those things. Of living U. S. writers he has been far & away the most widely trans ated - into at least 47 languages in 39 countries. In Middle Europe, in Russia, in China, in India his name (sometimes confused with Sinclair Lewis) is known to people who never heard of Ernest Heming way, never will hear of Branch Cabell. This...
...says in a note to the reader, "that I, as a novelist, have for years been running away from them." The better to see them, perhaps; for the setting of World's End is not contemporary : it is a novel about Europe and America between 1913 and 1919. Upton Sinclair lived in Europe before World War I; he knew some of the peace conferees of 1919 and some of the journalists, particularly Lincoln Steffens, who watched their struggles. Through his new novel readers may recover much of the atmosphere, some of the meaning of those days...
...Robbie turns up in sudden glamor from time to time, goes swimming with his son, instructs him in the munitions game, warns him again & again that the coming war will be "for profit." Father and son have tea with the Munitions King, Zaharoff, who oddly begins to talk like Upton Sinclair: "Suppose some nation should decide that its real enemies are the makers of munitions? Suppose that instead of dropping bombs upon battleships and fortresses, they should take to dropping them upon de luxe hotels...
...Said Upton Close (Josef Washington Hall), author & lecturer on the Orient: "One good isolationist Senator is worth more to Japan than a whole division of soldiers...