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full students have not been able to decide
whether the damage resulted from a Chinese
or a japanese plot, but the incident marked
the climax Of long series of irritations
produced by Japans peculiar interests in Man
churia and the resentment of Chinese Ma
tionalists against the political aspects of those
interests Most of his book is, however de-
voted to the events preceding this episode
Chinese disappointment over the Versailles
treaty and the outcome OF the Washington
Conference, growing resentment toward foreign
nations because of their refusal to resign spe-
cial privileges relations with Soviet Russia, the
rise of the Nationalist attack upon the treaties
and Communism in China
THE COMING STRUGGLE FOR POWER BY
John Strachey. New York: Covici-Friede.
John sTRACHEY is he son of the late John
- st. Loe Strachey, conservative editor OF
the Spectator. After graduation from Magdalen
College, Oxford, he was for a time on the staff
OF The Spectator. But conservatism was not
for him. He joined the Labour party in 1924,
became editor Of the Socialist Review and in
1929 was elected to Parliament from Birming-
ham. The Labour party soon became too re-
dictionary for him and in 1881 he left it. His
comments on Stanley Baldwin and Prime Min
lister Macdonald show that he could not have
worked harmonlously under them. He sees
Macdonald as obliterated by Baldwin who is
the apostle of capitalism. For it should now
be apparent to even the most superficial OBJ
server that MT Baldwin is the dominating fig
ure upon the British political stage" Mr..
Strachey is MARKHAM and the idea of "strug-
GLE is fundamental in his social philosophy
His purpose in the book is to analyze capitalism
IN both its social and economic aspects and to
show how the system is maintained in Great
Britain. His brief stay in Parliament is used
as his basis OF experience. He gives IAN esti-
mate OF the respective roles in world affairs
OF the Conservative and Labour parties OF
Great Britain" He disclaims an intent to ex-
pound Communist views, but in his chapter
The Nature OF Communism" he at least skins
over the surface, and concludes that though
Communism would not solve all our prob
lems," it would progressively postpone the
menace of death" Practical measures for such
an accomplishment he does not suggest. British
estimates of Mr. Strachey's book seem in some
cases to have reflected the sympathies of critics
and In others to have treated tenderly the son
of his father. 1t is at least serious discussion
Of present economic, political and scientific
conditions, with something about religion and
literature, by young man who has both
sophistication and enthusiasm even if the lat
ter is most often denunciatory. Interesting
frequently entertaining, parts of the book are
his remarks about individuals Clemenceau,
Lenln Lloyd George Hitler Hindenburg Mus
solini, John D. Rockefeller, Owen D. Young. j.
M. Keynes, Sir Arthur Salter Freud. jung
D. H. Lawrence, r. S. Eliot Aldous Huxley,
Proust. Nietzsche. Shaw, H. G. Wells.
DEEP WATER. The Autobiography of a Sea
Captain. BY Pryce Mitchell. Boston: Lit
tie, Brown & Co.
THE harbor of Queenstown, County Cork. one
Of the finest in tine world probably acted
as vocational adviser to Pryce Mitchell. At
Queenstown, where his family of Cornish and
WEIGH stock, had settled, his boyhood was spent
and with other boys of the town he visited
most of the vessels which spent any time in
the harbor-most OF them grain ships from
Australian and California ports. When he
was 16 he signed on a cabin boy and made
the voyage to Australia but because of the
brutal treatment he had received from the mate
he escaped there and spent nearly year in
the Australian bush. Back in England he rose
in the merchant marine to the position of
second mate at %. Then, seeing the approach
ing doom of sailing vessels he began all over
again and signed on as a deck hand on a
steamship At 81 he was captain of a liner
Capt. Mitchells autobiography is one of the
best of recent sea stories, for he knows how
to write as we'll as how to sail the seas He
does not depend for interest on tales of mar
velS in which his Imagination plays the larg-
est part; his record OF facts, is stirring enough.
He also has humor, which enlivens his nara
tive, as it helped him through many difficult
experiences, including hurricanes tidal waves,
and mldocean rescues. The everyday episodes
of ship ife-amateur surgery, tattoong, boiler
repairs, the cusine-are all viewed humorously.
The plum duff served by the ships cook was
of such quality that If any one had fallen
overheard after eating it he would have sunk