Word: eyewitnesser
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Historical crises usually bring on an avalanche of hasty interpretations, dim eyewitness accounts that last no longer than the event that gave rise to them. Less perishable than most works of its type, John Langdon-Davies' 275-page Behind the Spanish Barricades is a literary hybrid, partly a work...
AND FEAR CAME-John T. Whitaker- Macmillan ($2.50). Troubled volume by a foreign correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, whose reluctant disillusionment with the League of Nations was crystallized as an eyewitness of Mussolini's Ethiopian campaign.
By last week there were few men still alive who believed in the divine inspiration of the Treaty of Versailles. The world no longer believed what the Allies put in writing in 1919: that Germany and its allies were solely responsible for the War. But to readers who still took...
Sixteen years ago a U. S. newspaperman, John Reed, wrote the first eyewitness account in English of Russia's Bolshevik revolution, in Ten Days that Shook the World. Brief, brisk, emphatically pro-Bolshevik, Reed's account won Lenin's approval, earned its author burial space in Moscow...
Johnny now has plenty to think about. The little old man haunts his days, Trelia his nights. As the old man's attitude grows more threatening, the girl becomes friendlier. But when Johnny sees that she cannot return his love, he says good-by to her. The old man...