The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-25


 Poland, a nation now enslaved, disaster, but has escaped and will thesis of o. Haleckts "A History of Poland" (Roy: s3.60). Tn this cons else, yet fully-developsd record of Poland's eight hundred years of in- dependence and struggles, the ger- minal core of liberty Is solid. Here is a country which has been parti- toned, has been both conquered and conqueror, and which remains still potently alive as political and fighting force while Nazi Ger many attempts to prove that Po- land is forever ended.
 Poland fights on. Her great past and tragic present are well defended, not only by those who stil refuse to accept the con- querors within her borders, but by those who have luckily escaped to carry on the war against the in- vaders. Tn Squadron 303" (Roy: $2). Arkady Fiedler tells the in- spring story of the Polish Fight CT Squadron with he R. A. F. Robbed of their families, their na- tive land, these men who might well have compromised with death, chose instead the difficult and grim alternative. They were not always met with cheers and encouragement. Until their loyalty was proved, they each put up with suspicion and real hardship. But now the allied nations know the record of the Kosciuszlus Squad ron (303) which destroyed 126 aircraft in the Battle of Britain, and was top scorer in the raid on pieppe.
 Yet 1t is not only by their poe litical history and present valor that we must know our Polish allies. Their cultural background is important to us. Probably no other Polish born artist Is as well known as Joseph Conrad who, in finest English, wrote stories of the seq which are immortal. J. H. Ret finger, long Conrad's friend, tells many new and interesting arec- dotes about him in Conrad and His Contemporaries" (Roy: $250). 
 BIOGRAPHY = The self made Henry Ford, modern Crocsus of industry, hasn't been too much Of an open book as No. figure in American life. We know him as the father of mass production in the automobile industry, collector of Americana, and an industrial ist with worldwide interests. But we know little of Henry the man.
 William A. Simonds, biographer of Thomas A. Edison, the scientist who encouraged young Henry Ford to continue his experiments with he horseless carriage when Hank was in a blue funk. has been an intimate of the Detroit been an intimate of the Detroit motor magnate for 20 years. His Henry Ford" (Bobbs Merrill: $350) has an intimate touch that makes interesting reading.
 Simonds' account of Ford's life is colorful. There's the tale he tells of how the young inventor was thought rather queer by De- troiters during his early days of experimenting. Henry used to leave his car behind the road in Belle Isle Park and stand behind bushes to hear passersby comment on his creation. He and one of his early associates. O. Harold Willis, used to don boxing gloves and "flail one another" in order to keep warm in the cold barn in which they were working.
 Monopoly smashing Fcrd, builder of a one-man empire, packer of the Peace Ship-all the facets of his many-sided life are touched in this excellent book.
 WAR - Are We Winning the War the Hard Way7" Title of Mai. Malcolm Wheeler Nichol- sons new book asks that question. then answers 1t.
 The major. professional Army officer for years and an authority on foreign military thought. is of the same school as former ans hassador to Japan Joseph Grew, in that he believes our chief miii- Eary problem is to concentrate on whipping the Japs. He told us we should watch out for stab In the back from the Land of tlc stis.. ing Sun two years before Pearl HarboF.
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