or SUNDAY, OCT. 9, 1938 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS Mussolini's Foreign Policy Penetratingly Summarized "MUSSOLINI'S ROMAN EMPIRE" tocracy and corrupt press have bull- by G. T. Garratt.:Penguin Books, Ltd., dozed the people into the belief that London 1938 Sixpence. In America by a country which had 83,000 Commun- Modern Verse Is Featured By 'Book Room Kimon Friar To Lecture On Poetry Each Sunday At NewCampus Shop American Woman Gives Smug Britons Going-Over Henry cannot keep up with this high- soup, thin and dark and utterly sa- powered chivalry . . . While the Eng- vourless, tastes as if it had been lishmen are fleetly handing around drained out of the umbrella stand ,. . tea or coffee or ashtrays. poor Henry It is possible to eat English piecrust more often than not is poised in the whatever you may think at first. The background looking well disposed but[English eat it. and when they stand not very well organized." up and walk away, they are hardly On food: "I wonder sometimes how bent over at all. It can be eaten but they ever manage to praise it up long it does not come under the head of enough to get a plate under it. "The sensual indulgence." Modern Age Books, New York. 50c.r By STAN M. SWINTON G. T. Garratt,, Ethiopian corres-j pondent for the Manchester Guardian during the Abyssinian war and a re- cent visitor to Spain, wrote "Musso- lini's Roman Empire" in an attempt to inform a British public which "refuses to take Mussolini seriously" of the terrible truth of fascism. And he suc- ceeds in doing so-brilliantly, un- usually well. In fact the volume is to Italian foreign policy what the Duchess of Athell's book was to Spain. The guilt of Italian victory in Ethio- pia, says Garratt, rests upon Britian and, especially, upon the shoulders of Anthony Eden, the "dandy who lured his country from its duty with soft words." Garratt declares and, to the mind of this critic, proves conclusive- ly, that the British foreign office knew long before the Ethiopian venture what was going to happen and, in traditional diplomatic style, had a tri-partite agreement with France and the aggressor as to how the spoils would be divided. Deliberately lying to the British public so that its hand R would not be forced, refusing Ethio- pia the right to bring arms through the colonies, Britian's foreign office aided and abeted the rape of a country which was desperately striving to ab- sorb the benefits and not the evils of Western "civilization". Spain-Fascist Battle Gro ind And Spain? To the mind of a man who has spent many months there in relief work, a man who found that it was much safer to take the red cross from his wagon because it drew more Fascist ,bombs than did an or- dinary vehicle, the war is the latest, step in the Facist policy of blackmail which, if .successful, will give Il-Duce not only his Roman lake, but also minerals which will greatly enhance his chances in the "coming world war." The details of Garratt's Spanish report are commonplace: the bombed cities, the strafed civilians, the re- gularly elected constitutional govern- men slowly dying of strangulation be- cause the pro-fascistic British aris- Il ists to millions of Republicans has suddenly become Bolshevist. Tracing Italian interference back to the fa- mous Hotel Quirinal de Roma do- cument of March 31, 1934 he shows how the Spanish people are being whipped into submission by a fascist invasion. Comfortable Words Of Authority And, finally, he declares: "the vast' majority of Englishmen . . . tend to accept the comfortable words of those in authority. Democracy will fail and deserve to fail unless those people in Western Europe and America who still have the free use of their intelligence will insist on being told the truth by their rulers, will throw those rulers out of power when their government wilfully and systematically deceives them . . . England has left millions of people in Europe and the Near East bewildered and uncertain. This feeling is shared by those who have seen that the actual result of British policy has been to disarm men fight- ing for their country and their liberty, and they have been able to trace the effect of certain sinister influences on the formation of that policy. The exposure of these influences is the. first step, towards a return to the de- cent sanity for which our country was once famous." Blames Parlor Fascists Mussolini's Roman Empire is a bril- liant, thoroughly documented study of Italian aggression. More than any other contemporary author, Gar- ratt blames the drawing room fascists of Britain for the plight of the 'world. Eden he sees as an opportunist, Cham- berlain as a fascist sympathizer. The book is at once a necessary text for an understanding of the European Situation, Graduate Outing Club Plans Hike To Mountain Peach Mountain will be the destin- ation of the first outing of the Grad- uate Outing Club today where hiking and a weiner roast will be held. Members will meet at 3 p.m. at the northwest corner of the new WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME, by Margaret Halsey. Simon and Shuster, New York. $2.00. By CARL PETERSEN When Margaret Halsey published With Malice Toward Some recently, it conveys a startlingly clear impres- sion and, in most cases, reduces the reader to helpless laughter. It is this tendency toward epigram- matism which contributes to the book's sogginess in parts. A forced epigram is immeasurably worse than no epigram at all. And Miss Halsey, in the effort to maintain the scintil- A new campus book shop featuring she returned with interest the casti- modern literature and especially gations wnicn an ungenerous English- poetry has been opened at 308 South woman, Mrs. Trollope by name, has State St. Its proprietor is John Mal- heaped upon the American public in colm Brinnin, formerly poetry editor a volume published in 1932 entitled of Prespectives, and its title is The Domestic Manners of the Americans, Book Room. a volume which gave rise to some The new shop is totally devoid of doubt on the readers' part as to text books, and furnished informally which Americans, red or white, were for comfortable browsing. A rental li- under consideration. brary will accomodate students who As the wife of a young Ph.D. who wish to borrow books. A line of liter- went to England on an exchange pro- ary periodicals including Transition, fessorship, Miss Halsey had ample Twentieth Century Verse, Interna- opportunity to observe life as it is tional Literature and others is avail- lived in a small English village. A able. remarkable proficiency for satire and A number of first editions of modern a rollicking sense of humor enables works are also included in The Book her to lampoon, tellingly but good- Room's shelves. The hours for the naturedly, the English "Ungentry." shop are 10 a. m. to 12 noon, 1 to 6 British weather, food, conversation, p. m. and 7:30 to 9 p.m. with the ex- character, clothes, all feel the whip- ception of Saturday evening. lash of her satire which she wields On Sunday evenings at 8 p.m. Ki- with amazing dexterity considering mon Friar will deliver a series of lec- that this is her first work for publi- tures on "Poetry, Its Technique and cation since her college days. Appreciation." Mr. Friar was a Zona Her forte is the epigram. She knows Gale Scholar for five years, and a keen ability to construct it so that studied under George Pierce Baker__ at the Yale Graduate School of the Drama. He has lectured extensively on modern poetry and has been Play Reader for the Detroit Federal Theatre. The fee for the entire series of about 14 lectures is $2:00. lating pace of the first chapters of the book, drags in cute sayings by the heels to keep the reader amused. Moreover, in certain sections of the book, the subject matter is dull and' no amount of verbal gymnastics will enliven it. Miss Halsey is, it appears, guilty of that shortcoming which critics, of all persons, must avoid- the tendency to exaggerate in order to strengthen a point. But her exag- gerations are, for the most part, so intensely amusing that the charge cannot be pressed too seriously against her. Her observations on British tem- perament and customs, true or no, un- deniably make amusing reading. 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