Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 Sep 1933, p. 32

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or the other. Rumnors are current to . the effect that action will be taken - upon this important matter during the month of September. Every American citizen should be informed on this subject as its settlement has e adirect and vers important bearing. upon the future of this nation. There is a %vide divergence of opinion on1 *tbe subject, of Russia. There is a largeand very definitel~ y Ympathetic ~ minority that fàvors recognition -be'1 cause of Socialisticor, Communistic, leanings., There is a considerable busi- ness elemeint thrtviews recognition' favorably from tlie- viewvpoint of a mparket for American products. There are a nuimber of engineers whohave served the Soviet Government in tecli- nicai capacities at high salaries and under the most favorable circumstan-, ces and who are entbused by the vast .4 dratuinq bi, Franicisc0.o Boes and unlimited possibilities for engi- 'If H. AL Toe>mlinisoi, whJose newu n eering developmnent.. noiel, The SPIws of Hehe oni" zas 1týis difficuit te 'view the subject Priblished - 'arIv, iii .4igilst l'Y in a pvrely unbiased way. The major - Harper awd Brothers. that is publisbed in the United States tor to Russia and stands well, witb is produced by tbeorists whose abili- Stalin and other Soviet funictionaries. ties to judge situations that are very A PHYSICIANS TOUR IN SOVIET mnaterial are questionable. Literature RUSSIA by Sir James Purvis-Stew%- tbat is critical of the Russian situa-. art. tion is limited in the United States The author made a month's tour of. due partially to the remoteness of Russia viewing the country from t he Russia from- the United States and viewpoint of a medical manî. As he the extreme~ difficulty of obtaining travelledhe made notes of tbe thinlgs first hand facts that are not satuirated that impressed him. Hie is flot a train- ,witb propaganda, The most important ed fact gatherer nor iterar\- maii books dealing ivith Russia are pro- bu~t writes a narrative based o i duced in England. There are, bow- crnnli nai-..-.. .-.ri-e- l", uide uctal our readers may have an, itiget survey of the situation we joffer herewith a-selected lis.t of read- Ilg on the subject both pro and con in iJclive also digest the attitude' ofthe authors of the various books towar(ls Russia.- THE-TRAGEDY 0 RUSSIA byý Dr. WlfiIl Durant. Dr. Durant has long been an inter-. ested sympathizer of the so-called Russian "experimnt." Then he went .0%0 V EnaanD Klaus'Mebnert. A book describing the new youth being developed ini Soviet Russia. The author is Russian born but-bas lived in Gerniany since his eighth year. He has made regular and frequent trips to Russia. The book ' is being favora-. bly rnentioned by the radical'review-. ers and dlaims to have been commend- ed by Trotsky. RED RUSSIA by Theodore Seibert. 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Their book is FFENSIVE by' Maurice enthusiastically reviewed by Comrnu- nist and Communist sympathizing: writer on the subject of publications and is pro-Soviet, propa- lus is a.suave and polish;. ganda from start1 to finish. than the thenie, and the characters are better than anything they are in- teiided to prove. This Peter and this Clair are more complex than Mdain and Eve bad time to be, and the Lon- don of thieir day.---today--o.ffers more difficulties. than ýcould ç.ver be stuffed ,in.to the skin of, one apple. -Clair is a younig business wvonan who fails'rather completely in love with the charni of Peter.1, Mr. Craig has the courage to admit fairl%. early, t bat this' charm of Peter's is. not; to he described.- Actually most of the time lie seems quite intolerable. But for Clair ie lias bis appeal. JustClair'a Huasband They, marry and Clair. beconies more and norte succes.sful,, whule, Peter has no luck at.ail and, is finallv forced into the constantly irritating position of I)eing supported by' bis wife and heing known 1) rincipally as ber husl)and.. So his disposition, neyer, anything to boast of, gets worse and worse and worse, and he drinks more -and ~more and more un- til the onlY rational coûrse of action for Clair %vould l)e to divorce him and. marry the very decent young- man- witb whomn she lias meantime -fallen.in loýve. But tbis sfhe does.flot do; sbe sticks to Peter. If Mfr. Craig had shown bis heroine standing nobly iv lier perfect beast, of a liusban-d from a. mere sense of * dutv, then, althouglione miglit have enjoyed the storvy so --fai-, the book could be' put aside as one* of those thesis-bound efforts that nieyer get very near to life ini the crises, But the case is very much otherwise in "Wlien Adam XVept." Clair is con- tinually being drawn back to Peterbyi somnething -within berseif. Somnetbing inexplicable to the reader,- to the friends of Clair ini the book, but sometbing real nevertheless. As Life Really la, in the end, %vaiting ft')r Peter. to bring the cocktails, Clair is also Wait - ilg.for life With 'no sense of martyr- dom. NIothing' lias been reme.died. nothing really changed, this miigbt -as well be the beginning as the endi. W%ýe have known these people for a I À

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