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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25394, 27 November 1943, Page 3

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Literature

Post-war Trade. Like the Great War, but probably to a greater extent, says A. J. Brown, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, this war is. accelerating the process of industrialisation in many countries outside the older manufacturing areas of the world. In Industrialisation and Trade (Royal Institute of International Affairs. 2s 9d) Mr Brown places this industrial growth in perspective as “ a phase in the general economic development of the world,” and examines its implications as regards the pattern and volume of trade in general, and United Kingdom trade in particular. This pamphlet deals with trends rather than cases, and so is general in its terms, but it is of more than usual interest to New Zealand, where the conditions he traces are pronounced. The German Record

It is the conviction pf Fight for Freedom, Ltd., an international organisation with headquarters at 39 Berkeley Court, London, that ignorance of the facts is the basis for the view of many in the United Nations that the Nazis are only a minority and the Germans as a whole are a peaceful people. To this view, it is declared, there can be only one answer, which Fight for Freedom is putting forward in a series of studies of the essential political events in German history between the two wars. The first of these pamphlets are The Case of Dr Bruening, by Bernhard Menne, and Aggression,, by O. Lehmann-Russbueldt. Bruning is the author of the aphorism, one should not let either ones contemporaries or posterity see the ultimate motives of one’s policy,” and his present biographer develops an indictment from that proposition. The other pamphlet is a study of the steps by which Germany re-armed . after the last war, including the period of the Weimar Republic. Poems of War. Lindsay M. Constable (Corporal L. M Buick-Constable) presents as his latest effusion “an epic poem of fine cantos entitled Song of Youth. He traverses in more or less blank verse the ca .”? patens of the war, including the Battle of Britain and Greece, where Empire youth that scofted at propadrunken Hun’ry to the depths of merry hell. There is more in no less epic terms. New Zealand Views. The claim of a new brochure from Whitcombe and Tombs that in scenery this Dominion possesses everything—hence the title New Zealand: Land of Everything—is well supported by the collection of excellent photographic reproductions in the publication. These cover most aspects and most districts ot the land, by the use of well-selected typical scenes, and the booklet is most suitable for sending to friends abroad.