The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-07
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DOWN SUD AMERICA WAY

4NllCl Itd COliSNiOuS SlilIt tIlC w dt
and the resulting closer cooper
alton between our continent
and our southern neighbors.
Consequently, there have been a
great number of books written
to acquaint us with senors and
senorltas.
Particularly valuable right
now is Spanish at Sight" a
book which is intended to teach
the layman rudiments of Spanish
IN short order. Written by Clark
Stillman and Alexander Code
(Crowell: 81 25), it teaches by
Observation-Disclosures by Edgar
Cirlin help as much as the text
in learning this important lam
guage.
A land Of contrasts is Chile in
Benjamin Subercaseaux' book,
Chile: A Geographic Extrava-
ganza' Macmillan: So. Author
is one of the best known South
American writer's, and takes his
own country apart to show how
it ticks. He shows the cthnologi-
cal and physical structure of
Chile and dresses it in readable,
interesting language This pro-
gressive South American nation
has a lot more to ii than its nj
trate deposits.
You'll remember Ezequiel
Padilla, Mexican Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, for his impas-
stoned speech before the confer
ence Of South American coun-
tries at Rio right after Pearl
Harbor. Many credit him with
swinging our neighbors to our
side of the fence despite an Axis
propaganda campaign in South
America that was beyond our
comprehension.
Padilla has a remarkable COM
mand of nistory-he contrasts in
his "Freemen of America Gift
Davis: $3.50 the aspirations OF
Hitler and his designs on South
America with those of the Span
ish conquerors: the Monroe Doc
trine with the Pan American
Doctrine, and plainly states that
we in the United States and they
in the Pan American nations
will have lot to say after the
war is over in regard 10 peace
and prosperity of all countries.
A GOOD NOVEL
Definitely in the running for
best-seller nom at o MS Is.
fuckers People FISCHER: So,
a first novel by Ira Wolfert tina:
is written with all the skill of
veteran novelist.
Here is the inside story of the
policy racket and of the people
who make and run the mum
bers" games. All of these-the
lottery bankers, collectors. book
keepers, statesmen, guards, law
yers-lived in the world that
Tucker ruled, and had to go his
way or perish. His perverted
power reached out to touch even
the courts of justice-and JUS
tice quit the courts. His was the
fevcred brain which directed
both the business monopolies
and the warning labor unions.
and he pitted each against the
other until they succeeded only
in self-destruction.
Wolfert tells his story with
subtle thoroughness Of detail,
and with remarkable character
depletion. fuckers people are
the answer TO everything that is
wrong with the world today
you will never want 10 know
any of them, but neither will
you ever forget they are here.
WORLD OF YESTERDAY
A year ago Stefan Zweig, the
biographer of Marie Antoinette.
saw fit OF take his own life be-
cause, after ones sixtieth year.
unusual powers are needed in
order to make another wholly
new beginning" So ran the note
left to explain his deed TO
shocked literary world.
His autobiography, IT he
World of Yesterday Viking
Press: So, written during the
summer Of l94l, provides a fur
Their key. 1t reveals the growth
and struggles of a highly sensi-
tized intellect against the back
ground OF three highly diver
gent eras-the snug security of
pre-World War ] the turmoil
of the interval between two
wars, and the outright barbarism
of the past few years. And across
the debacle Of the times move
the literary, artistic and intel
lectual great Freud. Borgese,
Yeats, Pirandello. ROLAND, An
atole France. Won Hofmannsthal.
Rodin, Ravel, James Joyce, Tos-
canini--their thoughts, actions
and reactions providing an in-
tcresting mezzotint of The
World of Yesterday"