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...Order in East Asia has been the biggest bonanza for criminals that China has ever seen. With stringent wartime blue laws at home, every out-of-work prostitute, gambler and dope peddler in Japan headed for Occupied China, where their enterprises found Army protection.* Local talent, too, found the Japanese Army and the puppet Government amenable to bribes...
...studied, haunted the galleries, became a fervent admirer of Delacroix and Rouault. He decided that the modernistic Ecole de Paris was not for him. Said he: "A painting, for me, must be based on human emotion. It is a deep experience. In the School of Paris there is much talent, but the work is of the mind purely. Picasso is a gifted encyclopedia. He goes through everything just like a child. But his work is something which is entirely apart from...
...aluminum, 29,040 tons of copper, 2,640 tons of tin, 60,170 tons of lead, 5,275,600 Ib. of nickel. Two days later they made available an additional $35,000,000 of machine tooling, 15,000,000 more man-hours of production, much of their best engineering talent...
...existing anyhow. Josef Steiner is hard and adroit: by cheating at cards he earns the thin security of a dead Austrian's doctored passport, works in a Viennese amusement park until Anschluss drives him to Paris. For young Ludwig Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna to Prague, to Vienna, through Switzerland, to France, to Geneva, at times together, at times apart, in & out of jail, sickness, food, shelter and luck...
...theme of Flotsam is one of the most massive, intimate and terrible derangements of human living within human memory. Remarque, able as he is, is not fully equal to it; perhaps no human talent could be. Besides, Flotsam has some lyric flights that droop in midair; some touches of sentimental sententiousness; some comedy too national quite to cross a border; one or two bits almost of cheapness. But Remarque, like Hemingway, has the rare ability to produce writing which is both a genuine work of art and popular; and to embody a generation. For that reason Flotsam is a deeply...