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...themselves. Among the most readable postwar books: Make This the Last War (Michael Straight, $3); Let the People Know (Norman Angell, $2.50); U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (Walter Lippmann, $1.50); Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (Harold J. Laski, $3.50); Between Tears and Laughter (Lin Yutang...
...much to the Orient has been misrepresented, parodied and neglected by the part of the West that most needed his teachings. Occidental understanding of Confucius, difficult to come by in any edition, gains in the Modern Library's reprint, as a handsome gift book, of Dr. Lin Yutang's selection of Confucian sayings (The Wisdom of Confucius...
...Yutang wrote this book after Frank lin Roosevelt had metaphorically slapped the face of China asking for war aid. The President told Congress in his annual mes sage last January: "Even today we are flying as much Lend-Lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma Road." Says Lin Yutang: "I knew the exact ton nage being flown in, which no official has dared to make public. ..." For nights Dr. Lin lay awake "thinking, thinking, thinking of how to break the solid wall of the Washington blockade of supplies for China." This book is a small but potent charge...
...Convictions. No one likes to be slapped and Lin Yutang has lost considerable composure, as the title of his book indicates. The series of slaps fixed two convictions firmly in his mind...
...Yutang appraised himself in Manhattan: "I think I am about as moral a man as anybody and that if God loves me only half as much as my own mother, He will not send me to Hell. That I know. If I don't go to Heaven, the earth is doomed...