WAR PAMPHLETS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 89, 11 October 1941, Page 15

WAR PAMPHLETS

SEVERAL NEW SERIES

Two new series of pamphlets, on the lines of the well-known Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, have been issued by Messrs. Kegan Paul, and MacMillan and Co., of London. The general theme of the Kegan Paul series is the new democratic order—the practical steps necessary in economic affairs, finance, industry, and agriculture, in political-policy, education, and the social services, that a,re needed to establish that order, and kindred subjects. There has been a demand for this* kind of literature, and one can understand the reason. Within the compass of 60 odd pages each topic is dealt with in a concise and illuminating way, and that is what is needed by busy people who desire to know both sidef of public questions. The subjects in this series have been well chosen. They include "A Policy for Army Reform/ "A Policy for Agriculture," "A Policy for Reconstruction," "A Policy for Colonial Change," and "A Policy for Education." Peculiarly enticing are "To Hell With Culture" (especially of the Nazi type), "Who is to Pay for the War," and "Challenge to the Churches," the authors of these three being respectively Herbert Read, Douglas Jay, and Professor John Macmurray. In the MacMillan pamphlets Professor Julian Huxley's "Argument of Blood" and Professor R. H.'Tawney's, "Why Britain Fights" are masterpieces in their way. The purpose of this series is "to clarify the mind of the ordinary man on the issues of the war," and to answer the query, "Why are we fighting?" Twenty-six titles appear in this list, and again the names of the authors are a guarantee that the quality of the discussion is high class. Some of them are: A. P. Herbert, A. A. Milne, the Dean of Chichester, J. R. Clynes, C. E. M. Joad. Harold Laski, and Sir Richard Gregory. THE VOICE OF AMERICA. Corresponding to the "Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs," is a series entitled "America Faces the War," written by distinguished Americans. Among these "German Youth and the Nazi Dream of Victory." by E. Y. Hartshorne, is outstanding, because its evidence includes the statements made in unpublished autobiographies of "free" Germans, written during the last year, describing iheir lives as influenced by the Nazi revolution. With this aid, and as the result of special study made in the Fatherland, the author portrays different ages and types of Germans who have ardently accepted, tolerated, or refused to accept the debasing doctrines of Hitlerism. In "The Faith of An American" Walter Millis, author of "The Martial Spirit" and "Road to War," explains how he was converted by facts from an academic pleader for peace into something like a whole-souled supporter of American intervention. Other volumes in the series are: "An American Looks at the British Empire,"; by James Trustlow Adams; "The Monroe Doctrine Today." by Grayson Kirk; "A Summons to the Free," by Stephen Vincent Benet; "Food arid Freedom, the VitaJ Blockade." by William Agar; "Germany Then and Now." by Alonzo E. Taylor: "1917 and 1941," by Frederick B. Artz.