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...sheer fierceness and talent this latest novel by Robert Neumann (Mammon, The Queen's Doctor, Zaharoff) has few competitors in recent fiction. Like Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Richard Wright's Native Son, it was written with passion called forth by human wrong. But in Neumann's case that wrong is more complex, less local, more profound: it is the story of the Jews of Europe, of whom Vienna-born Neumann is one. By the Waters of Babylon is perhaps his masterpiece, perhaps theirs...
...Yaleman sleek and capable as a panther, 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...
...worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia. Drafted by Wilson as director of the Emergency Fleet Corp. in 1917, in two years Schwab put a U. S. Merchant Marine on the seas. After the war he went back to making and spending millions: he hobnobbed with Sir Basil Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere and the King of Sweden at Monte Carlo, built an $8,000,000 chateau on Riverside Drive, bought a 1,000-acre estate at Loretto, Pa., his birthplace. In the depth of Depression he never lost his faith in big business. Said he: "I am an optimist...
Suppose a body-builder like Bernarr Macfadden took a tip from a professional strikebreaker like Bergoff, and then prospered like nobody's business until he turned into a potentate like the late, generally unlamented Sir Basil Zaharoff. On such an alarming supposition John Stuart Martin bases General Manpower, his first novel...
...Owen Rohde's first husband, turned up in Manhattan, gaily prattled to newshawks about her madcap life. Highlights: 1) a prison term for the shooting of a French doctor's wife; 2) a romance with the late mysterious octogenarian Munitions Maker Sir Basil ("Arms and the Men") Zaharoff; 3) a trip to British Honduras to call on an unknown man who had written her a letter. Explained Lady Owen: "I was very eccentric...