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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 29 Apr 1937, p. 48

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Galy Terrace Furniture Phono Suprior 5695j ® ~IniEvanston t Omp DOMKINION ROOM Cbr HIlmn.iAve. & Davis St. For. Lunch -Tea -Dinner Opotahâb, PhilUf A.Dan<Jsoei Patewi.ize Dur.Adiwrs the periodical "F1oreign Affailrs,'* whicfl theý Macmillan company bas recently issed. - *Sitice the -end of. the war 'Mr., Arm-. strong bas spen ta part of- each year -in F urope, ýand lie knows at first fiand dictators, rulers, *prime ministers. émi- gré%, journalists, arrny chiefs-ail that diverse conip4ty of strong men and weàk who havre been making the troubled history of th e past eighteen years. Mussolini announced, "The struggle between- two Wvorlds can permit no com- promise. Either we or they 11". Mr. Arrnstrong secs two uival and wholly incompatible conceptionis of life *-the. denocratic and the dictatorial- iocked iii conflict ail over theé world. Using the "case miethod" of quotation tators ai He tells beaten in and survi Johi, Steinbeck. hadlés theéfitra- tion li f drcam and dcçire through thse meccla.,ical processes of dailY lite witha prevision il, "0f Mice and MIeni," hMs,-4.teç ie4,soeL The Lbook, Ld asist I/nblishcd by Covic Fil'dc., iS aIlelst ýy can be ller. supremuay- believe in défndit A LIBRARTAN'S m ieasures DAY BOOK .two sys- npares the -.Ann Whitmack leologies in A * 4,l' called a story of "tremendous power a work of art, intensely alive and' §0 m~anifold in its implications that no statemient of the theme short of Stein- beck's own van do, it j.ustice.", Once again the, atthor- of Tortilla: Plat evokes bis favorite chçlaracters, the vagabonds and human flotsamn that dri ft about in odd backWaàshes of'ourciviliza- tion. Whether they are fruit tramps, working their way across the fertile valcys of California. or, as in this case, cattleranch bandis . drifting f rom one. job to another, bc, pictures. them with . co m- passion and understanding of their bopes and fears. 11ee hojies, the commofl dream of Lennie and George, are that they will be able to bold a job long enough to put away a littie pile with which to buy a copl o ares and an lew -pige,hický ens and rabbits back in the bill country ce us," says George, "are the uys in the world. They got Tbey don't belong noplace. eto a ranch and worlc up a then they go inta town and stake, and the first thing you 're pounidin' their tail on some ,. They ain't got nothing to or souDe IoveUy staonory, Couds. i.oIIy ortlstic tween ourselves--and- people Who Say: 46we do not ktnow% of or. recognize truth for truth's sake." "\r. Armstrong urges that the chat- lelige of the dictators be accepted. *He catis for a niobilization of the liberal lipril 13- Dipped inito We Covert book of impressions by respondents in search of onlii wonmau corresponidet gave 'one the niovies. t/se World, a foreigil cor- news. The nt,. was Mary Their cha ýey run up urley, the use of Lennie's enormous ey hiave little troublefinding ýcause of the well-intentioned of blis hazy mind, they sel- iem. iîîces are slinm indeedý when against a shrewd bully like > B o q cs s o~ n. h l a s a ow nd n .igoher :he way, inl, in h

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