Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Jul 1939, p. 22

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Len 75c each Pro1724 Orrngton Ave. On4rna#.. N.II mida. Or..0227 Josep~h Gollomb. MacMillan'. Co., New The popular conception of espion- age in these days of nominal "world peace" is probably confined to the vision of a few sleek international. spies , engaged 'in precarlous,. ro- manic, but flot particularly' impor- tant effo rts to'obtain Information. An alarmingly. diffeIrent picture is, presented in Joseph Golomb's book, Arinies of Spies, which reveals that, .while the old Mdata,H-ar tradition is fan fromw dead, espionage on, a far. larger scale has played an amaz .ing- ly vital and sinister part in recent world events. The. tremendous significance of espionage and pr opaganda during. the past few'years will at once be, apparent when one considers that Germany's annexation of both ýAus- tria and Czecho-Slovakia was accomn- Plished wlthout bloodshed, that thé years of bitter struggle in Spain were minlmjzed b y the .- term "in- surrec~tion : "iand trt thé wrn x China, which has assumed far great-j er nroportions than. any conflict since1 1918, remains officially undeclare . l Such concsuests could not have been accomplished wlthout the aid of vast and efficient organizatioris, speci- fically devoted to purDoses of propa- 1s ganda, espionage, and sabotage, and, - it is with these organizations. par- ti ticularly those of the "aggressor i nations," that Mr. Gollornb concernsf One hundred s h o r t atories, representing most of 'the impor- tant writers in thia fleld of fiction, mnake up <'Tellers of Tales," an anthologyj selected by W. Somer- set MaughIam Jçzbove> aoneipub- lished byt Doubledayj, Doran . hie book also has an introduction by the author. This is a dramatic book, forVin- cent Sheean' s view of. countries is bersonal,> because, hé is excited. about them. and symfpathetic towards their r).eonle. HRe writes personal history aIl th 1e tirne, and is neyer indifferent. In Spain he was ln the mnidst of the fightine. and, back in hospital with the wounded and .dyiniL,. in Eneland. he was on bus 13 which winds its way throuLyh London. touchine every form of humanity. In Germany he went to the concentration camps and although 'he was noV allowed to go inside, he managed to get a good view, and to interview some of the escap)ed inmates, and draw conclu- sions. He feels stronazlv about al he sees, and particularly about theý Part Mn. Chamberlain Played in i-* Iowing the German people to believe that they were the conquerons of civilization. He says: "With Hitler the lines of logic are terniblv confused;, he believes in al J'atronize our advertisers Ai f 1 .1

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