The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06

ton history and ms natural reportt Wild Blue Wonder" (Dttton, eS),
 Here b the almost incredible story of Americas unpreparec- ness before Pearl Harbor = the prejudlces against flying, Ger manys infringement on Americas patent system, the blood.letting control of the armaments industry by 0 murderouS few. The slgnifi- canoe of these gloomy and docu. mented facts makes Q startling con. trast to the sequel of Americas rise to the greatest air power in the world today-the tale of "the sons of the prophet" Billy Nit. chell = Arnold, SpaatE, Doolittle, Chennault, Brereton, Baker, Ken- ny and others. It is Q story Of what these men, and alr-minded leaders like them, did to produce an air force of 2,400,00O from . nucleus of l7 combat planes all we had before Pearl Harbor to defend the Pacific stretch from Hawaii to Singapore.
 If 0avreau is occasionally repe- titious, this can only be laid to his background of opposition as pioneer of aviation, The story he has to telle Is the story of prog. ress, the story of the men who fly our B-20's, who bomb Ploesti, who hit at the heart of Germany 1t makes good reading, the tale of how America is winning the war. ISRAEL TODAY
 A PHILOSOPHICAL evaluation of the Jews place in the world today coupled with clarion ex- hortation for the Jew not to deny his JewishnesS, but to live it, is the dominant theme of Waldo Franks interpretive volume, The Jew In Our Day" tDuell, Sloan & Pearce: $2.50).
 MT. Frank speaks not vnly to the Jews but to the gentiles as well, for both have been equally foggy as to where the modern Jew fits into society and community,
 "ISreal faces death," MT. Frank asserts, mot through persecution but through hamilton, unless at least minority of the nation returns to the teachings of the prophetic Covenant so that Israel and Its st!ll thrilled mission for mankind may live"
 Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, one of Americas leading Christian phi losophers, contributes Q provoca- tive introduction.
 Frankly admitting that while the work doSent hold out the solu- ton to the Mystery of Israel, which MT, Frank characterizes as the inys. tery of life, the author does claim that his writings ask the correct questions to the solution,
 MT. Frank will do the entire world 0 deep and lasting favor If he ever arrives at the correct answers,
 All, YOUTH!
 THE BARRIcADEs," by Philip Toynbee Doubleday Doran; S2,S0), {, Is the story of man who was born too late to follow in the path of his own ideals. Michael Rawlins, English schoolmaster, is fired from his school. Rather than feeling diGinay or shame, Rawlins t oveF- come by relief, Q sense of ffSehnm that his nine years of teaching had quened. He determines on an ad- venturous nfe-no obligations, no conventions. A man of ideals, how. ever, he is incapable of mere drift. ing.
 A former student of his, David Markham, emotionally immature, follows him to London, believing his dismissal Is due to politically liberal Ideas. Rawlins iS irresist. ibly drawn to the young man, His plans for life aS an adventufer are disrupted by the concern he feels for Markham, by the intui. tive response evoked in him by the ardor of the boys beliefs.
 For time Rawllns struggles to keep Markham from going to Spain to fight with the LoyaliSts, but, In the end, he cannot stand in the way of MaFkham's fighting for ideals which he recognizes to Do his own. He realizes that were 1t not for the barricadeS which irrevocably divide his generation from the younger mans, he would be doing the fighting. Thus, out of c summer of planned waste. Raw lins k able to draw an imperish. able meaning to Q life he can no longer hold in scorn.
 There b implicit tragedy in the problem of two generations, one Strile through age, the other fu. tile through immaturity.
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 TAKE THEM, STRANGER. |" c new collection of poems by Dabette Deutsch (Henry Holt: S200), succeeds in Interpreting the agony and pathos Of war without