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...ORIGIN OF THE NEXT WAR -John Bakeless - Viking ($2.50). Not more than a handful of excessively well-posted people can afford to miss this book. Since it contains not a word of "war scare" claptrap, there is room upon its vivid pages for enough striking fact and comment to burst the covers off an average volume of like heft. Yet Mr. Bakeless' thesis is expressible in a few lines, which he modestly quotes from General Tasker H. Bliss...
Where indeed? Author Bakeless, scanning well the entire globe, presents a dispassionate exposition of the expansion problems of Japan, Italy and Germany, etc., which deserves cogitation. Will or will not the 300-odd humans on every square mile of German and Italian soil inevitably expand into the relative vacuum represented by France with only 184 human atoms per square mile? When the fighting Japanese atoms finally burst from Nippon, will they erupt by sea or land? If by land, into Russia or China? If by sea, into Australia of the U. S.? With what chances of success...
...Origin of the Next War-John Bakeless ($2.50). Bursting with quiet facts...
Sixteen men with Coach Lydecker and Manager D. W. Bakeless '26 leave Boston Monday. The players are: M. H. Clifford '27, J. H. Watson '26., E. F. Gamache '27, Captain A. E. Reed '26, M. W. Linn '26, W. Van A. Coombs '27, R. S. Hatch '28, Madison Sayles '27, W. W. Babson '27, C. O. Simpson '27, J. H. Lane '28, C. W. Gillies '26, J. C. Dreier '28, Crawford North '28, H. H. Watchpocket '28, H. J. Wallace...
...Bakeless' last chapter, dealing with the weapons of the next war, proposes a striking remedy. War will be fought by entire populations with chemistry and bacteriology as well as airplanes and submarines. War will be everywhere. The distinction between soldiers and non-combatants will vanish. . . . "The solution of the whole problem is simple enough--so simple and so evident that there is little hope anyone will pay the least heed to it. We need but study the underlying causes of modern war, spread a knowledge of them among the people who must do the fighting, demonstrate the relatively slight chances...