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...Taboo keeps off the front page Mr. Gandhi's use of Christian acts as a weapon against men with Christian beliefs. Only in exceptional publications like Asia (U. S. monthly) has the religious side of India's passive battle with England been described at graphic length by men like "Upton Close" (pseudonym of Joseph Washington Hall, probably the greatest historian of contemporary Asia, certainly the one closest in tune with Asians), and C. F. Andrews, an Englishman who used to be St. Gandhi's secretary. In the daily press, taboo keeps Gandhi to the fore as a sort of quaint...
...work all night in the textile mills (a scandal against which Lancashire bitterly protests), and in India itself Mr. Gandhi has seen enough of the Machine Age and Big Business to convince him that these things must be destroyed if mankind would save its immortal soul. Yet Historian Upton Close, sympathetic though he is with Asians, acutely as he realizes the difficulty of their adjustment to mechanization, believes that upon this point St. Gandhi is butting against a stone wall which may smash him if he butts too hard...
MOUNTAIN CITY?Upton Sinclair?A. & C. Boni...
Socialist Upton Sinclair might be a better novelist if he kept anti-capitalist propaganda out of his books; but probably in that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...
...Author Upton Sinclair, 51, was born in Baltimore, educated at Manhattan's College of the City of New York, Columbia University. He has been married, divorced, remarried; has one son. He has founded: the late great Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, N. J. (Utopian colony) ; Intercollegiate Socialist Society (now League for Industrial Democracy); American Civil Liberties Union of California. He has been Socialist candidate: for Congress (N. J.); for Congress, Senate, Governor (Calif.). Fond of suing for libel, he does not always win. Author Sinclair Lewis, when a Yale undergraduate, admired Author Sinclair, left college to take care of Author Sinclair...