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The fact that more than two million copies of the Oxford, pamphlets have been sold since the series started in July,1939, shows, among other things, that brevity is the soul of propa.. ganda. The matter of these
January 18, 1941.
BOOKS
Dunkirk. It is the first volumo: in. what is promised as a serial history, to be issued periodically. The author is the military critic of the "Spectator.". He pre- faces his narrative with a sur-
"Oxford Pamphlets on World vey of the political as well as the
Torpedoes Used at Taranto
pamphlets is uniformly. com. Affairs, Numbers 36, 37, and military circumstances that pre- pressed within thirty-two pages. 38." The Gestapo, by O. C. ceded and led to the war. All None more interesting has Ciles: War and Treaties, by the theatres, including Finland, yet appeared than Mr Clarke's Arnold D. McNair; and Britain's and all arms, naval, military, frank account of the blockade, Blockade, by R. W. B. Clarke. and air, are included. Written Fleet Air
so closely upon events, It gives Taranto was made with torpo- brought up to date to meet the-(Oxford.. 3d. each.)
2 dramatic, well-proportioned docs, and its success illustrates new situation created by: Ger- many's virtual control of the
(Hamish
It is now known that the Arm's attack at
"They Wanted War." By and clear narrative of the seat-how effective thoso weapons
Tolischus. whole continent. Coffee, ten, Otto D.
tered and at times chaotic cam- are, against even the heaviest paigns.
ships, when skilfully and reso- and cocon are Incking, fats are Hamilton, 10s. 6d. net.)
lutely handled. Some bombs deficient, but Germany is not
"Why England Slept" is the may have been dropped, too, but going to starve; for Europe is "Twanty Yours' Armistico— : 91 per cent. self-sufficient in and After: British Foreign Policy work of it last-year student of the use of protective nets by the Harvard University, whose dual enemy, mentioned in the last food. But other commoditica Since 1918." By Sir Charles purpose is to analyse the defects communique, shows that it is essential to the war and the con- Potric. (Eyre and Spottiswoodo. of democratic institutions in torpedoes that he fears most. gested railways are shown in 7s. 6d. not.).
the face of military challenge, and to warn America not to be The dropping of torpedoes Churchill's prognosis that from "The War for World Power." caught napping in her turn-from aircraft has often been the summer of 1941 the Axis By Strategicus. (Faber and "asleep at the switch," as he illustrated in published photo- Powers will feel their weak- Faber. 10s. 6d. not.)
puts it. It is a cogently argued graphs, which show that the plea, well-balanced and in-acroplane comes down to lea
this little book to justify ̈Mr
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nesses, and by 1942 will feel
them so much that the British "Why England Slopt." By formed. offensive may bo decisively John F. Kennedy. (Hutchinson. launched. The financial factor, 31. 6d. not.)
however, is curiously, not ex-
amined.
Mr Giles excellently com-
than mast height for the drop -much closer even than for
"Diary of a Public School-dive-bombing. The attackers mastor.' By S. P.
B. Mais. had thus to brave both a protce- (Lutterworth Pross. 3s. 6d. tive balloon barrage and short- not.)
range A.A. guns, and the fact Mr Mais, who taught in publicis evidence of the high standard that they only lost two aircraft
presses the appalling facts actual war; and even contrives about Himmler's machinery, and to add something interesting to Professor McNair faces, the what was already known about schools in the days before there dilemma produced by the need the dual character (private and was broadcasting to be done, of skill achieved.
The "four shapes" seen un- of good faith in keeping treaties, public) and "hypnotic" perfor has had another try at it since
the war broke out, and these are der water in the inner harbour and the parallel need of revising mance of Adolf Hitler.
his impressions. He is surpris are presumably the two cruisers them in the light of changed Sir Charles Petrie contributes ed to find how little has changed and two auxiliaries reported circumstances. Ile makes some to these forbidding problems either in the nature of boys-carlier. practical suggestions.
some hard home-truths about the same incorrigibly untidy.
Mr Tolischus was awarded Britain's shortcomings during forgetful, banc-lazy rascals”- The second communique also the Pulitzer Prize in May last two historic decades, und 9 or in the teacher's art. No illustrates the high value of the for his war-time despatches sober plea for adequate vision progress appears to have been aircraft carrier to the Fleet. from Berlin to the "New York in the opportunities to come, made in imparting zest to the Though the range of the enemy's Times." He was also expelled Britain, he says, can neither process of learning, nor in some bombers would seem to be in- the reforms of easier application. sufficient to cover the whole from Germany: a not surprising "dissociate herself from fate for one who so drastically mainland of Europe" nor "do- Mr Mais hints a doubt of Mediterranean, that is not true of his exposed the inhuman suppres- minate it by force, for the Do whether the public school system eiticiently handled and undisturbed reconnaissance aircraft. If they are sion of every trace of personal minions would not support such will survive the war, but, if it they should be able to report every berty in a country whose project." Sir Charles is at does, he is strongly in favour of movement of Admiral Cunningham's Government aimed only at any rate constructive and is well a re-arrangement of the calen-Fleet to the Italian Command, fashioning by foul means "the worth reading, for the problem dar, closing all schools between of the fighter's provided for most formidabic, ruthless, deler is hard enough, and intelligence Christmas and Easter, when Fleet's protection by the carriers, mined, and ambitious instrument to-day is unfashionable.
colds and epidemics are ram-has become an exceedingly dangerous
Thanks,
however, to the high standard
the
of power the world has seen.” Strategicus is concerned ex- pant, and making up the work-thing for an Italian reconnaissance Much of this material is fumi- clusively with military opera- ing time out of the rest of the aircraft to venture within sight of it. liar. Mr Tolischus adds some tions. He writes the story of year. His style of authorship The carriers do a good deal to neu-
uralise the geographical advantages interesting evidence about the the war from the invasion of is, as usual, interesting and from the point of view of air recon- German war machine during the Poland to the evacuation from shamelessly personal.
naissance that the enemy possesses.
Husbands
BY KEMP STARRETT
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TO NICH
ALTO HUSBANDS ARE WHAT SIT BEHIND A NEWSPAPER ALL EVENING, AND WHEN SPOKEN TO SAY "HUH? SOMETIMES THEY
DONT HEAR A THING.
"AND THEY ARE WHUT NEVER NOTICE THAT YOU ARE, TIRED UNTIL YOU PRACTICALLY COLLAPSE IN THEIR FACE AND THEN GET SO WORRIED AND ATTENTIVE, YOU WISH "THEY'D GO SOME PLACE AND SHUT UP.
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ANYTHING.
AROUND HERE
THEY ALSO ARE WHAT YELL LIKE BLAZES WHEN THEY LEAVE THE LIO OFF THEIR TOBACCO JAR AND THINK YOU ARE GETTING TOO DARA). CARELESS.
A HUSBAND IS A MALE BIPED OF THE INUMAN RACE WHOSE FEET HURT SOMETHING
PIERCE... UNTIL WITRODUCED TO A YOUNG
AND VIVACIOUS BLONDE.
HUSBANDS ARE VILAT COME DOWN TO BREAKA". FAST ON SUNDAY LOOKING. LIKE A LAST YEARZAS BIRDS NEST AND EXPECTING, TO BE WELCOMED WITH ENTHUSIASA...
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USELESS IT 15.