The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-02
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Most important of current re-
leases is Ambassador Joseph c.
Crews Report From Tokyo
(Simon and Schuster: SD a
clear, hard Uniting evaluation OF
Americas enemy in the Pacific.
Ambassador Grew hopes to
wake up the American people
to the fact that I'VE are up
against a powerful fighting ma
chine, a people whose morale
cannot and will not be broken
even by successive defeats, who
will certainly not be broken by
economic hardships who
can be brought to earth only by
physical defeat by COM
plete defeat in battle"
This is the enemy America
faces: The Japanese are united
they are trained; they are fru-
gal; they are fanatical; they are,
at least in war, totalitarian. The
Japanese leaders do think they
can and will win.
Americas defeat means slav-
cry, Ambassador Grew points
out. Not Immediately. Victorious
Japan would consolidate her pO-
sition in Asia, reduce America
to impotency land then strike
again.
Ambassador Grew knows the
Japanese. He represented Amer
lea in Tokyo for 10 years. He
watched Japanese militarists
dominate tha COUNTRY, from
homes and schools to factories
and diplomatic courts.
You can take Crews word:
"They (Americans) at the fight
ing fronts can handle anything
the Japanese can send against
them If each and every one of
us-you and ! gives them his
utmost support II we fail
please mark my words we
pass into slavery, and all the
world passes into slavery with
u.s."
Ambassador Crews report is
moCe than an appeal to Ameri-
cans to awaken to the danger
confronting us. He backs up his
words with facts, with a history
o. Japanese preparation for war
and Japanese aggression. Re
port From Tokyo" will make
you fighting mad-and that's
what you need.
COBB'S AMERICANS
Irwin S. Cobb tells the world
why he's proud to be an Ameri-
can in a brief but stirring chant
for our heroes, Roll Call"
(Bobbs- Merrill: SD Part poe
try, part prose and entirely in
spring, Roll Call" summons
the valiant men who wrote
Americas history in deeds to
lead this generation to battle.
And you'll agree with Cobb:
Uncle Sam needn't be ashamed
of his seed"
TREASURES" BOOM
Favorite fad in publishing
seems to oe the Treasury" re-
leases, which are becoming more
numerous by the day. But
these Treasures" are valuable,
worthwhile collections and all
are important additions to your
library.
The field Of music is fertile
ground for such studies. Four
recent issues deserve special no
tice. Current popular songs keep
the radio blaring, but when you
sing from the heart, the old
songs, the hymns, usually best
express your feelings.
You'll find most of those be-
loved old hymns in "A Treasury
of Bestowed Hymns" Green
berg: $3.50. Daniel A. Polling
has written a short introduction
for each hymn, q bit about the
author and how the hymn was
written, and James H. Daugher-
ty has done a fine job of illus
t->ting each one.
FOLK SONGS
1t would seem that "now is
the time for all good folk songs
to be gathered together. There
are three top notch volumes just
off the presses.
Contributions from 38 ma
tons make up "A Treasury Of
the Worlds Finest Folk Songs"
by Leonard Deutsch (Howell,
Scskin So This is no run-of-the
mine collection much Of the
music Is unfamiliar to Ameri-
cans, but each has been selected
for its national flavor and for
pure musical value. Prefacing
each group-they are arrang-
ed by countries are back
ground sketches on the music,
verses and composers.