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November 30, 1940.

England as She Rightly Is

turization seems

omitted.

their moro obstreporóus less agents, was shown to havo

been fruitless.

B. M.

Thrillers MAN who has killed his

black-mailing valot walks.

THIS IS ENGLAND. Compiled rugger, cricket, tennis, golf, and on

and Edited by Geoffroy Holme. the rest, with photographs of comrades. Commentary by Horbert B. the joy of all the participants.

The war has brought into be- Grimíditch, London and New Meadows and hedgerows, mends ing a different sort of monitor, Yotk: the Studio Publications, and river stretches, with old adults this time, who keeps an $5.

timbered inns here and there eye on the naughty boys of Dr. A and, close at hand, the most Goebbels and others whose modern of villas; finally, London WE Live in an era when ple- with all its familiar aspects, mission in life is to fill the air in on his solicitor with a demand

industrial, rapidly historical,

social with propaganda, abuse and for shelter from the law. ecoming the proferred vehicle financial. Nothing, it seems, is hate.

That is the promising start of or the dissemination of news;

In Here Lies Gocbbles, by Richard Hull's My Own Mur- nd this fact was remembered Looking over these plentiful Vernon McKenzie (Michael derer (Collins, 78. Gd.). The Mr. Holme, editor of The pictures, one may gain the whole Joseph, Ltd., 10s. 6d), the author promise is kept; but a surprise tudio, when he chose from ahadowy days when Hadrian of the B.B.C.'s 24-hour "monitor

story of England, from the tells us, something of the work walts. 2,000 photographs the illustra- built his northern wall, and even service" and some of the secrets 'ons for this book. For the before that, from an era when behind the propaganda program- of a murderer as unattractive as As you read on the character 1ost part, they are press photo- the Druids bullt Stonehenge and mes it is their work to pick up. any recently davised is subtly raphs of excellent quality; and a still less-known people dwelt He tells, too, how Nazi pro- displayed. ey present satisfyingly Eng Dorset, right, down the ages to it works, what its effect has And so to the detection, with

on the hill of Maiden. Castle in paganda has been financed, how nd as she normally is-an Im the present Bank of England been. rtant contribution to the with its addi- eneral mental atability when tion

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the work of the police seen .The book is through the uneasy eye of the hardly the "sen- hunted.

satonal nevela-

tion" it is claim-

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THE

by Sir he outward aspect of England eDwin Lutyens, television anything but normal. To a

at the ccompany the pictures, Mr. studio

ed to be. But it WILLIAM SLOANE'S Alexandro rimsditch has furnished

is a valuable and Edge of Running Water Palace, a Promenade Concert in informative unning commentary

survoy of Nazi (Methuen, 8s. 3d.) goes to the which the Albert Hall, and that awe methods in creating and mould- eerie for its thrills, with a scien- arves its purpose admirably. inspiring Battersea Power ing public opinion by fair means tist and a medium dabbling in

We have, first of all, the Station on the south bank of the or, more usually, foul.

Thames, across from Chelsea.

things unspeakable on the verge 1odern methods of approach to

But the author believes that of the unknown. ngland: by sea or by air, with Anyone pouring over these pic though the Allles' counter-pro- minders of Liverpool, Land's tures could hardly fail to gain paganda was late in starting and presumably was intended.

But it is hardly as spooky as nd, the Chalk Cliffs, London some concept of the real Eng- still contains many serious wenk- land, no matter how many, ugly nesses, Dr. Goebbels is fighting iver, Croydon, the customs. ditches are dug across the a losing and costly battle. then railroads, from George country fields or how many 'nphenson's "Rocket" to the sandbags piled head high in

This would certainly seem to stest streamlined train of the Mayfair. Which is, of course, be the case in the Near East. Medora Field. ondon Metropolitan railroad, precisely what those concerned A remarkable passage in the fext the landscape as it borders with the output of this volume leading Cario actress-producer, wait for her answer or just have book describes Badi'a Massabni, But you will have either to he railroad lines or the great

most ardently intended.

swathed in a Union Jack singing a good guess. y-passes, or as it appears from

"It's a long way to Tipperary,' the air with all the little

As the telephone is cut, the and urging Egyptians to join up lights go out, doors mysterious- checkerboard fields in

from the stage of her Cario square crmation,

cabaret a few days after the ly open and close and most of cutbreak of war.

the house party confesses to By this time, we have been MONITORS, when you and I

murder, the little matter of any turned loose in

The flood of money Dr. Goeb- tangible clue seems to be over- green fields were at school, were the bels had poured into Egypt and looked. were sports are in progress: good boys who kept an eye the painstaking work of count-

P. E. H.

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An Eye on Dr. Goebbels

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