The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-27
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Variety -- from the Hoover
Gibson discussion Of tomorroW'S
peace to the amusing fantasy of
a human in fairyland -- fills the
readers bill-of-fare this week.
This hodge -podge has but one
thing in CommOn-all the books
are good summer reading.
The winning Of the peace is
as important as winning the
war and it is important now to
recognize and prepare for the
difficulties the postwar world
must face. This, in brief, is the
thesis former President Herbert
Hoover and Diplomat Hugh Glib
son tackle in The Problems Of
Lasting Peace" Doubleday Dor
an: So.
To cite examples, the authors
trace the history of the world
and recent wars, pointing out the
weaknesses of the peace treaties
that followed each conflict. Both
Hoover and Gibson are con-
WINGED that we shall merely be
sowing the seeds Of new hates,
new discords and more war I'M
less we plan now TO make the
next peace durable and lasting.
Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague
de Camp co-author a novel
which is as far removed from
the Hoover-Gibson opus as you
will find. 1t is the Land Of IN
reason" (Henry Holt: $3.50.
This is pure fantasy detailing
the adventures of wartime
diplomat in Fairyland.
II you have been wondering
what driving force keeps Rus
STA going, what might and cour-
age helps the Soviet check Ger
man drives, you will find an
answer in Russians Don't Sur
render" by Alexander Poliakov
(Dutton: $3.50. II is fact, but it
reads like the best adventure
fiction.
PoliakOv, soldier and war
correspondent, was with a Red
unit which broke through the
Nazi lines, then found itself trap
ped. The month-long fight to re-
gain contact with the main body
of the Russian army is told just
as the survivors relate it in dug
outs today. If all Russia has the
courage this unit displayed Hit
Ter is the only man who needs
to worry about the outcome on
the eastern front.
Beryl Markham takes the
reader on a flying trip to Africa
in an excellent book West
With the Night (Houghton
Mifflin: So. She pioneers in
practically virgin territory with
this story of the development Of
aviation in Africa. With Africa
taking new prominence in war
strategy, this tory gains added
value.
Aimed at Hollywood, Louis
Bromfield's Until the Day
Break Harper: $3.50, is en-
tertaining fiction and excellent
melodrama, but it isn't as good
as it should be.
Few American writers know
France better or more sympa-
thetically than Bromfield, yet in
this novel of PIris under the
Nazi heel the author has not
quite conveyed to his readers
the passionate resentment and
bitterness which he feels toward
the invaders of his beloved city.
A truly fabulous New York.
one which New Workers see but
never come to know, may be ex-
plored by any who make the en-
tertaining experiment of read
ing Meyer Bergcr'S The Eight
Million (Simon and Schuster:
$3.50.
Don't overlook John Mase-
fields two newest narrative
poems. published together in
Natalie Maise and Plvilastu-
kay" Macmillan: S2.50). Eng
lands poet laureate tells the
stories Of a Russian beau who
was loved by a car AMI of lost
city with his usual captivating
manner.
And you can check up on
world geograhy and politics in
"Geopolitics 49, the Struggle for
Space and Power" by Robert
StrauSz-Hupe, (Putnam's S2.75).
Rather heavy reading but an ex-
&C" nj analysis of the causes Of