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7-Llaton 10-Crawled 12-Chessman (pl) 13-A land measure
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14-A sca-dück 16-The first woman 18-tron oxide 20-Wheeled vehicle 21-Covers 22-Juvenile game
24-To close
26-Assemble
20-A tille 27-Alfred (short) 29-Part of a finger
21-Wager
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HORIZONTAL (Cont)
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VERTICAL 1-Pronoun 2-Trust 3-Burn 4-Bite of Royal Botanical Gardeni, London 5-Unbleached
6-A plume B-Nour (poetic)
8-Abbr. of "Answer, If you please" (Fr.) 11-Twitching of muscles
12-Dy
VERTICAL (Cont.) 13-A plateau in
East France
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17-Departed
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Southern India
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THE CHINA MAIL,
THE WORLD. OF BOOKS
EXILED TROTSKY-
"THE PRINCE
JOURNALISTS"
HIS NEW BOOK
is demanded of them. In particular when the destruction of a meñber" of the Opposition is in question. The Russin of the fature can have no leaders educated on this ayatom. Those unhappy wretches who by word or deed have had the mlsfor- "The Prince of Journalists," a tune to criticise the Stalin regime compliment paid to Trotsky by no find themselves in exactly the same less a critic than Mr. Bernard Shaw, position as political prisoners of is quoted by himself in his new the old regime, men and women of book (produced in secret, and there- intellect and breeding penned to
in gether with the lowest types of | by enusing much concern Russia), "The Real Situation in criminal, with no word, no gift, and Russia," published by the Avalun no sign from the outside world Verlag, Dresden. In a book of until their fate and destination is three hundred pages, containing sealed. nothing that is absolutely new, no actual facts that the best observers
The Next War
"
SEELY SUSSEX ·
COUNTY. IN HISTORY AND SPORT
Sussex in the Past. By Viscoun- tesa Wolealey. (Mediet Society. 15:.) 1
'Already in "Some of the Smaller Manor-flouses of Sussex," Lady Wolseley has sent large number! of Sussex lovers on a voyage of rediscovery of the county which she knows more thoroughly and depicts more entertainingly than almost any of her contemporaries. In her new volume, which is enriched by eight admirable water-colours and an informative chapter on Prehis- toric and Roman Sussex, by Garnet Wolseley, she confines herself to the Steyning district, to the valley of the Adur and the Chanctonbury area. the Soviet State-takes Her power is twofold. She makes Яce the present benuty of place. That this war is unavoid us able, he adduces from the following old houses and churches, and her excellently-developed historic sense; conclusions:~
enables her to unfold with a very exceptional skill precisely what took place in them through the akes. Historians have a knack of being verbose and stult. Lady Wolseley is invarinbly entertain- ing, and almost too brief.. She never allows her genuine personal- ity to be weighed down by her scholarship.
For, all these evils Trotsky has in Russin to-day have not already practical suggestions. Striking at told the world when they had re- the root of the matter in reforms crossed the frontier and could speak at home he points to the necessity and write without being censored, of their being carried out before Trotsky's powers of description and the next world war-Imperialism persuasion are auch that Soviet Russia is revealed in her weaknees as no other writer has succeeded in revealing her, states the "Obser- ver's" Berlin correspondent.
Smuggled Into Germany and printed partly from the manuscript defending his position when forced into opposition in 1927, the book is Trotsky's own Apologia. He has been accused of deviating from the tenets laid down by Leniu and founding a new party based on Trotskyism." He repudiates the "insult with energy. "Against opportunism! Against a split! For the unity of the Lenin party!" This is the cry with which he onds his recapitulation of past, history in the party and the exposition of a state of affairs which he declares leading rapidly to ruin."
is
The Rise of Kulacks Trotsky sees the origin of the present system's collapse in the growth of a new middle-class party, growing out of those Kulacks, or prosperous peasant proprietors, of whom Lenin said that they and they alone, in the history of revolutions, had restored the power of Czars, ¡Priests,
Capitalists. He and writes:-
in
versus
"1. The efforts which Capital- ism has made during the past few years to regain power, the success obtained, and the consequent necessity for now markets. This applies to all great Powers.
2. The bourgeoisie of Im- perialist countries has convinced itaclf of the growth of economic, power in the Soviet Union, but sees that the present system of a proletarian dictatorship based on the monopoly of foreign trade will never secure a free market for the capitalists in Russia..
8. The imperialist, bourgeoisie speculates on intergal difficulties in the Soviet Union.
THE NATURAL WORLD
Sport and Nature in Sussex
Downs.
F. By "Frederick Wood. (Duckworth. .6s.) | With the modesty of the born sportsman Mr. Frederick Wood, "4. The collapse of the general who whips in to the Brighton strike in England, and that of the Beagles, disclaims any pretensions "As I am a good Chinese revolution which follow-to be a writer. ed, has filled imperialists with hope that it is possible to crush the Soviet Union."
England is the enemy. Trotsky reftises to believe that it is Eng- land's desire to open up trade with Russia. "Imperialist England other plans." PAINEFULL PEREGRINATIONS
has
His idea of a good day is à.good run; 'not a succession of bad
deal better runner than writer. I must ask forgiveness for lack of style in the recording," saya this ingenuous young 50-year-old ath- lete, In point of fact he knows his Sussex and describes it as engag Ingly as Lady Wolseley, but what a different Sussex it is. Mr. Wood Is. concerned with ratting, porch- "Twenty-five million small pea-
rabbiting, beagling, hunting, coursing, the habits of wild birds, sunt proprietors form the nucleus
and Lee appearance of wild flowers. of the new capitalistie, movement One of the latest additions to the
tells us things that most of us Russin. The Kulick class, brarter is that well-known volume which is recruited from this mass, of William Lithgow's "Rare Advenly did not know before, how animals shelter in wild weather, is repeating the process of a tures and Painefull Peregrina and how hares resist the attacks primitive, accumulation of capital, [tions." The old adventurer, who of stents, and in addition to his and 516wly undermining the So-was first published in 1632, and is knowledge of animal life he betrays cialist position." The ultimate not wholly reliable, describes his deep-sympathy with them. He fate of this endeavour is depen- forced exile and wanderings in is particularly angry with hunts- dent upon the relative growth of Europe and the "Near East. Permen who chep a hare or fox for State organisation and private haps the most interesting chapters the sake of sending up the season's enterprises. The slaw develop are those in which he tells of his gcore. ment of our Industries is enorm-adventures in Spain, when, taken ously strengthening the formation for a spy, he fell into the clutches of cinas distinctions among the of the Holy Office, was racked and otherwise tortured in most work peasants, and this is where the
manlike and painstaking manner, political danger lies."
and finally escaped, to write his In the towns the workers are memoirs, only by the merest seething under the surface. "Never change. It is a good little book, call attention to yourself. If you but should not be taken too literal- want to keep the bit of daily broadly, for its here was something of aquisite a corner of England as the you've got, don't talk too much." This, says Trotsky, is leading to the formation of a dissatisfied prole- tariat outside the trade unions and organisations, which, composed of thousands of officials, are becoming more and more a bourgeois body. In factories and works the "works enuncillors"-that body of delegates drawn from among the men them selves which has been taken over with so much success by German Industrial life-are being summon- ed less and less. Men are
kills; the best part of hunting to him is not the man or the horse or the fox, but the hound. In a word he is alive to overy manifestation of beauty in the natural world, and his whole, book is a paean of thanksgiving for being permitted to be alive and out of doors in so ex-
rogue. Edited by B. J. Lawrence. South Down country"Daily Tele-
SIXPENCE A DANCE-
[Spolled, by William C. Borth,
Hutchinson].
The hectic life of a professional dancer, whose sleek golden hair his lady employers a wish to ruffle, is described in a story full of slushy sentiment by William C. Borth, who, we are told, is himself an amateur prize-winner in the danc- afraid Ing world.
to complain in case they lose their
jobs,
"Blind Obedience"
The average flapper may think Tony Stirling "lovely," but the average, man will see no cause to revise his opinion of the jazz business. Even the author The League of Communist Youth, who does his best, cannot convince which is the association of those the render that Tony, hiring him who will one day, be called upon to self out at 6d' a dance to elderly follow in the footsteps of the men ladies who wish to "protect" him, who have made present-day Russia, is doing a man's job in the world. are being aystematically deprived Still, it is a phase of life unknown of all power of critical, or even into most of us, and therefore of some dividual, thought. Elind obedience interest.
graph"
A LITTLE TOO EASY
The Crime In the Crypt, by Caro- lyn Wells Lippincotts (Phil- adelphia) J
The only trouble with the mys tery story by Carolyn Wells, which begins with a dead body found in a sarcophagus in the crypt of a cathedral, is that the reader will be able a little too easily to point, early in the story, to the solution which Mr. Fleming Stone found right at the end of the book, Other- wise, there is plenty of action, and the book hus touches of the humour for which this American It is a very writer is famous, readable story in a pleasant, light| style.
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