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MONDAY,

FEBRUARY 21,

1038.

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Gangster WORLD

ENDS AND MEANS

By Aldous Huxley (Chatto and Windus, Ee. Od.)

A

LDOUS HUXLEY is known to the world as the man who once wrote a book describing the sort of bravo now world that we must at all costs avoid.

Now he has written a book in which he describes the sort of world that all sensible people are hoping one day to build.

But the trouble about him is that he does not really understand the sort of obstacles that lie in the way of build- Ing it. He wants to build his world without once lifting a hand in anger against anyone. "Non-violenca" la his favourite phrase.

Dare We?

Now make no bones about it: thero is a vast deal of truth in Mr. Fluxley's case. He is able to point out (what some of us are still a little labio to forgat) that war, when it breaks out nowadays, is a frightful and disgusting

thing.

Isn't it

Daro wo let it break out? belter to make any sacrifice in order to maintain peace? Oughin't we, asks Mr. Hurley, to train ourselves to bear the Arat hall: of bulleta without re- sistance.so that the war-makera will soon become ashamed of themselves and slop their tricks?

Non-violenco can, of course, be used- by an attacked people if there is a wenk spot in the aggressor's armour. For instance, when Gandhi used non- violent methods, No know that the weak spot in the armour of British Imperialism was the decency of British public opinion at home.

So far, so good. But Mr. Huxley's pacifism can never be a universal remedy because there are some aggres- sors who have no weak spot of decency. The men who did not inch fram bombing Guernica will not stay their hand when they are ordered to bomb Mr. Huxley.

Here's the Danger

In fact, they will rejoice over him. Ho la precisely the sort of adversary they want. This book, Ends and Means,

urbanely charmingly and written though it 19, outlines a foreign policy and also a home polley which, it scema, te me, would play straight into the hands of the gangster politicians. If I were the Mikado of Japan, I should post a copy of it to every It I wero Mussolini or Chinese.

filler, I should post it to every English- nan, Frenchman and Ruslan,

And, what is more. I should place it In the library of every one of my

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—or H@Y+M*A*NK*A*P÷L*Ä«N, as he afros himself in various coloured Inks is a gloriously comic character who would have -delighted old Mark Twain.

A pupil in a class of, adult immi- grants learning to master the Amert- can' Innguage in a New York night school, he reaches sublime heights of logical absurdity, endearing himself to us by the persistont vigour of his attack and his pitying, scorn for his fellow-scholars ...

None of that worn-out stuff about "plough."*cough" and "rough" for Hyman. His struggles are something now in history. One of them concerns his failure to distinguish between "o" and "a." Asked the mennink I mean "meaning") of the word "vast," he answers radiantly, “ It's commink from direction. Ve have four directions: de naut, de sot, de hrast and de vast,"

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CANDLE IN THE SUN By Edith Roberts (Harrop Bt. Gd.j (OONER or later, a reviewer of novela ands he is prepared for the worst that is, he antici- pates it. At least. I often do,

I seo in advance the sad hash which is going to be made of a promising theme, the frightful bog of sentimental Blush- which threatens to engulf the unwary author. So, when I find my fears are groundless, when I read a story by a how writer that not only starts brightly but ends sanely after n steady run, I appreciate it all the

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I had my forebodings about Candle in the Sun. A young American girl romantically married to the spoilt son of a West Indian family: the hint of Negro blood: scenes of exotic splen- dour: the collapse, of jlusion and the arrival of the upstanding wble mari You can she might have. married. understand why I trembled.

But I was agrecably disappointed. The story docan't-go' appry at any point. It remains a vigorous, realistic picture of Latin-American life, and young Avery, from New England, sud- denly fung into such different and dis- turbing surroundings, is quite a person, as our grandparents used to say.

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