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Politician Wendell L. Willkie has never held public office, and his political philosophy, therefore, must be judged by what he has said rather than by what be has done. This article attempts to deduce it from his published words, words spoken or written since 1933, the year he became president of Commonwealth and Southern and the year Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States. Wilikie starts with the idea that the trouble with the New Deal is that its leaders are motivated not by love but by hate, hate of those men who have most dramatically represented the spirit of individual initiative and free enterprise, namely, business men.

This article reviews the books "Japan's Feet of Clay," by Freda Utley and "Living in Tokyo," by Katharine Sansom. Both the books are written at the same time, both by Englishwomen, both about Japan. Yet one might be about the Middle Ages and the other about the moon for all that they have in common. The country seen through the pages of "Living in Tokyo" is fresh and gay, a color-print background for gentle lives among the rice fields and the temples but Job afflicted by boils suffered little compared to the country of "Japan's Feet of Clay," racked by every social and economic ill the state is heir to.

Focuses on the failure of democracy in Spain. Response of the government related to the organized pressure of a minority during the Spanish war; Information on the electoral victory of the Front Populaire; Invitation to American arms manufacturers to refrain from selling arms to either side in Spain; Announcement on the adoption of a well established policy of non-interference by the U.S.

This article focuses on the state of newspapers in France. In its passion, its quarrels, its gossip, its magnificent invective, its bad journalism but literary excellence, its infinite variety of political opinion, the French press is far more readable, entertaining and in some ways informative than the British or American. Because of the lack of competition the volume of advertising remains small. The "Temps" with only 70,000 circulation but the most important paper in France, is the cornerstone of the press interests. The "Temps" has three times the dignity of the New York "Times" and at least twice that of the "Times" of London.

The article focuses on the book "What Madrid Reads." Second-hand books are sold in stalls and from push-carts in the streets. As the war literature has not had time to simmer down to the second-hand stage, the civil war is ignored here as completely as if the bookstalls were in Fourth Avenue or Fifty-ninth Street. Newsstand dealers have found it necessary to move so often because of the shelling that they no longer have permanent stalls. At the rear the effect of the war on the printed word is apparent everywhere.

This article presents information on works of author Lamar Middleton. The attitude expressed in "The White Man's Burden" enrages Middleton as he follows the course of European imperialism in Africa. To him, all the talk which the practitioners of expansion indulged in about bringing to the natives the benefits of civilization in the shape of cotton pants and the Christian religion was purest hypocrisy. Middleton believes it to have been a conscious and deliberate hypocrisy and that makes him wild. As a result "The Rape of Africa" is an angry book, and history, when seen through a screen of anger, is not always seen clearly.

The article focuses on the book "France and Munich: Before and After the Surrender," by Alexander Werth. Munich was the deadline and the Western world missed it. If it is not to be too late now to retrieve the error, one must begin by understanding what happened. Since September 3, 1939, the pattern has become much clearer. For one thing people see now that the French lost far more than their Little Maginot Line when German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler took the Czech fortifications at Munich. France abdicated the throne of spiritual authority it had held for so long.

The article focuses on the book "Tsushima" by A. Novikoff-Priboy. Fought a generation ago, the Russo-Japanese War marked the crumbling of one empire and the iron baptism of another. Here, written by a Russian sailor who participated in it, is the story of its final episode, the Battle of Tsushima. One of the greatest naval engagements in history, it lasted five and a half hours, killed 5,000 men and sent the greater part of the Russian fleet to the bottom of the sea. The result is a book which, both as new historical material and as a human document of men under the pressure of great events, belongs in the most exclusive category of history — that of primary sources.

The article focuses on the book "French Policy and Developments in Indo-China," by Thomas E. Ennis. Ennis has turned on the light in a dim alley of history and a far-off corner of the world. Indo-China has not become a tourists' treat like Java and Bali, or a recognized figure in world affairs like China and Japan, or an explorers' stamping-ground like Tibet or Mongolia. This French colony that was once five independent kingdoms is one of the least-known countries of the Far East. Few are aware that it has an exciting history of its own, a civilization as old as the Chinese, and a present unrest that is causing its French masters as many headaches as India is causing England.

"Here comes the boss now," said one of the newspapermen indifferently. It was dark on the station platform with only a few lights shining through the rain. Reporters and photographers who were going along on the U.S. Presidential campaign tour stood around in slickers, talking in small groups. The President climbed on board in silence. There were no greetings. No one said anything. Only a Secret Service man standing on the rear platform, every muscle alert, his head turning this way and that, his eyes darting over the groups of men below as if to ward off any hostility, gave one a sense of excitement.

This article focuses on the book "The Anatomy of Frustration," by H.G. Wells. The book purports to be a digest and critique of some fourteen volumes entitled "The Anatomy of Frustration." The merger theme runs through Wells' panacea for all other problems like a white thread through a multicolored weave. The individual must solve his frustrations by merger into some greater being, education can be made effective only by merging the sum of human knowledge into a world encyclopedia, sex possessiveness is the root of frustration in love and therefore monogamous units must be merged into a system of group marriage.

This article presents a hypothetical meeting attended by several world leaders, including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In the meeting, Roosevelt says that they are not met by chance, but each of them, designated by fate to strive to lead his country toward the larger life, is conscious as he stands here that he individually and all of them collectively have a rendezvous with destiny.