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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Sep 1939, p. 42

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Speýia Low Pri e., 1724 O4go v. Ge 0227 I Accident Insurance 30.)000 people aceidentally injured every day! *Hospit~al Bis le Nursing Buli!1 10 MedicailSuirgical Expense opinions, the difference between the two belng the fact that a columnlst's opmlions are learly deflned, while a reader's are,'often in a haze wvatmng to be. pinned'down by the colunmist's decisions. And it is impossible to check up, unless the, columns are clipped. and saved for future refer- ence, wbetber be bas been right in' the férecasts. And i this busy'worlde nobody ever. takes the time to clip much less. check-up. In this book wbicb .is made up of Dorothy Thompson's columns in the Herald-Tribune over a .period. 0f three years, she is proven brilliantly correct in ber judgment of foreign affairs and foreign policy. Armed with an efficient bureau of workers, a great knowledge of the situation, past and present, and witb an ex- eeCdigly oncfeev is' 1 o n,Mis Thompson managed to glean the sa- lient facts ini world affairs, to com- pile tbem so that they made a clear pattern for her reader, and then to judge wbat the resuits were going to be. She is amazing, for there have been unexpected personalities in the turmoil wbich have confused us all. But she knows ber Europe and she bas nmade a study of. the laws wbîch confiict in th e ntac'ts of The American race problem of black and white has inspired a- nets historica~l novel by Thornas Dixon, the man who tvrote "The Clansman." The' book covers the dramnatized,' this book will seem too sensational to be credited. If, how- ever, the world dots decide to cor- rect the Nazi set-up, Escape is so great a book that it will be used as one more proof of conditions that have to be righted before the world can *return to clecent living condi- tions. It is the story of a great Gernian actress, wbo bas sold her by Thomas Dixon. The Monarch Pub- Ilshig Comipany, Atlanta. Thornas Dixon, who wrote "The Clansman" and "The Birth of a Nation;" after six years of research and study, bas corne forth with The Ftaming Sword, an epic novel cover- ifig confliet frox 1900 to 109 in this country between the blacks and the whites. To -tie..up many o f the..facts with. current',eveïnts, the author uses iv- ing men and womnen as important characters, assumning full responsi- bility under, the ibel laws, accord- ing;to bis foreword. Sanctity of Race Sanctity of, race (the samne sanc- tity "Aryan" Germans flaunt'in the face of 'Jews) becomes a fervi d cause, to Angela -Camieron, a soutb.- ern woman, after three members of ber .fami1lr are murdered and ber sister raped by'a black. She goes north ini the irlterest of the race problemu., whiob, she b.. lieves a festering sore in the heart of the nation~, onlY to find it in- extricably bound up with Comnmu- nism ini New York. Reds are leav- ing no stone unturned in winning over the negro population. In the North they feel their cause' may succeed,-but «'across this path the South stands with flaming sword." In the final chapter, a Communjst revolution actually breaks out ini this' country, and one is left to imagine the d* prdictions have been fulflled again land h spti ocnrto r~I ad gain. Just as one example, cmp.Cnditions there among the among dozens, ber words, Feb. 12, prisoners, and bow she escapes, the 111- 1938 - "Write it down, Germany espionage system that covers the started on the march across ail of country like a blanket, tbese things, Europe east of the Rhine. Write it are so briiliantly described that down, the world revolution began in they compel intense interest. earnest, a n d perbaps the world "Ethel Vance," according to ber War." That was about Austria. FOl- publishers, is a pseudonym.- Some. E lowed Czecboslovakia, and now the one wbo knows the inside workings PoIish Corridor. of concentration camps, and wbo al- I isuniitial~ ~so bas a fine literary' gift, bas writ, rnnuny of .tne most painful- incidents in the bý .la ck and white conflict-be stops at notbing wben presenting the 'more sordid and brutal aspects. At the sarne tirne bis indiscrirn- mnate mixing of fact and fiction de-. tract froni bis power to convince. Either pure history or pure novel mnight have succeeded wbere a by-, brid rails. Then too, Angela Camer- on, bis beroine, is a wooden paragon well named. Too, beautiful, ton ann4d jord of the gouoayara Io school with proper A (lent and Hlospital izaution1 surance! B. 'G. EBERLI as somi n, somi es grow . rs.ý ai

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