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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 01, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page six Winnipeg free press saturday june i 1940 poor Poland siege. Photographs and narrative by Julien Bryan. Introduction and captions by Maurice hindus. 64 up. Toronto Mcclelland Stewart. When or. Bryan arrived near Warsaw on the morning of septem Ber 7 he did not know that War had broken out that Germany Marchins on Poland or that the City was being bombed. He did not know that the government had gone and All the press photographers and correspondents. Nevertheless he stayed on to take his terrible Hii magnificent pictures showing the world what happens in a besieged City when the nazis make War. But the world is learning fast. Hitler kills More civilians than soldiers that is part of his plan for terrorizing whole populations. Here is the evidence of nazi valour churches and Homes and hospitals Laid waste the bombing of refugees scattering on Superb restraint Marks portrait of fiery Man Cuba Libre. By Mackinlay Kantor. Illustrated by Ruth Lepper. 136 up. Toronto Longmans Green. M a Road. Here i two working in a Field or women digging potatoes. The pictures Are intimate and shattering things you cannot talk about things you can hardly Bear to see Small boys trampled by the Superb nazi tactics an Ake room among your immortals for Cristo Lorenzo Rodriguez known to tile Iowa volunteers As Cuba Libre a Small Brown Soldier unschooled not even civilized a fourteen year old Patriot with an idea of Freedom seventy times too big for him Send the brilliance of the nazi attack upon a peasant or i ing his slogan aloft Over the Vil Lage band like the whistle of a Calliope Cubra litre Cuba the dark skinned Waif was adopted by the mid Western eld woman Dazely clutching a pair of Silver spoons a Small boy left alone the taut lines of his shoulder and arms revealing his Young desolation peasant women in rough dresses whose eyes reflect in name Able tragedies. The artist has caught some incomparable Quality of the polish race some spiritual Force innate nobility in these peasant faces. There is rare fortitude Here and strange calmness. The poles. Or. Bryan says were not embittered against their allies although no help came and they Sav to French or English plane. A implications for our times in brisk historical novel take courage. By Phyllis her Parent s wishes. Dutifully she Bentley. 495 up. Toronto Macmil a reads the religious pamphlets to lans in Canada. Please her brother the Puritan i divine grown Over pompous with 0 nce again miss Bentley writes Tho logical choler sufi sighs Vel. An excellent historical novel i the minister s tirades against the with implications for our own j soul Damn ing errors of other sects. Penninah says times. Once again she pictures a world ostensibly Remote but Actu ally near in spirit and analogous to ours. It is a novel of the civil War in England and the dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. It is a penetrating study of the Powers that played to me it has always seemed that a Man s beliefs Are Between himself and god. And he hath a right to live alter those beliefs if he chooses provided that he does not break the but peace Lay in splinters All about these marauding scots try havoc with the Freedom of English Ina to turn the godless englishmen men. Powers curiously similar Torinto presbyterians and Cromwell those threatening the Freedom northward carrying Many europeans today. But these i destroying punishing his enemies analogies do not appear All at encouraged the purge of opening the Book one must confess so King Charles might be beheaded for not being a re to a certain resistance against such Long past dramas. One is tempted to protest to miss Bentley. Look Here there is enough history going on now All we can Cope with More than we can stand. We Are being publican. Within three months a Section of the army was rebelling against Cromwell for not being enough. Cromwell s i words and actions turning out 1th, a contest of wills if English notions of Between writer and Reader. And constitutional Rule Ance melts away before the Superior Pennnah wrote even skill of the Yorkshire novelist. It when l a has happened before. It will happen i spine and the half stars again. Miss Bentley always my Neal out i with i vent sick perplexity we the Story is told in the first inc transactions of the of Long per few years when All we had Jon by a Yorkshire woman. Penninah Loi met for was through weakness i us Safe age to record her memories. Pen Ninah s life is closely i Woven with the political and religious distempers of the time for she is in love with a royalist and married to a round head. Her love Story makes an excellent device for observing the contrast Between two of View two loyalties two ways of life. Dutifully she accepts the sturdy Clothier. John Thorpe according to new titles the Challenge to try by Viscount Halifax this speech has been quoted All Over the world and has been reprinted More frequently than any other address recent years. Loc the last crusade by Cyril Alington Dean of Durham an unflinching facing up to the Tion of pacifism and christianity. J5c Oxford pamphlets just published c3, the ukrainian canadians the War. By Kirkconnell. 27, i e and growth of the Brit ish Empire. By j. A. Williamson. 28. How s resources Are mobilized. By Max Nicholson. Loc each Oxford periodical history of the War a concise impartial and accurate narrative of the Progress of the War. Background and origin 2, september to december 1333 3t january to March. 25c each at All booksellers Oxford University press of one bold Man. 1 remember with a sore heart now Cromwell s parliament of Puri tans honest men enough were in easy and Uncertain because they depended on Goodwill from above and not on the solid election the people. They resigned their Power into Cromwell s hands and behold he was lord protector an office not subject to constitutional checks and therefore More arbitrary than any English kingship. Penninah reflects we had fought for Liberty for our right to be governed by a free parliament and Inch by Inch. These rights were dragged from our hand. To do Oliver Cromwell jus Tice. I do not think he meant to de stroy o or Liberty nay. He even thought he was protecting a but once you destroy lawful ways of Rule and depend on your own Goodwill for Justice you become whether you wish it of not. A so Cromwell betrayed the people n the name of Justice and righteousness in the name of almighty god and Betook himself to the Palace of Whitehall and it All recorded with Mellow tolerance and rare insight a novel to read with profit out books at Eaton s the Spanish by Georgette Westward from by Hjaltar r. He land. Discoveries in America before the British by Stephen Structure Bistry and strength How to pay for the by e. Of m. Durbin. An essay or the financing of War Searchlight on by John de Courcy introduction by lord Phillimore. This is a collection of Rcd Orts made for the Imperial policy group. It a great Many facts to a Clear understanding of the International situation Book Section. Main floor Donald a swedish author finds lost world of childhood Ake and his world. By Ber til Malmberg. Translated from the swedish by Marguerite menu or Gren. Introduction by Stephen Vincent Benet. Illustrated by bar Bara Cooney. 176 up. Toronto Oxford. Plunge Back through a looking Glass into the los world of childhood is impossible for most grown ups. It is no of be done by squeezing very smal r stooping nor by crawling of me s hands and Knees in print. I is a sort of Miracle that happens by Accident to poets and or. Walter d la Marc. Most grown ups leave the look ing Glass in splinters in their Effort to peptone be and dehumanize the world of childhood or rebuild nearer to adult desire. But m Malmberg leaves the Mirror intact he finds the lost world he achieve the divine Accident my. Malmber is Sweden s Foremost Lyric poet. His Book is not really for children it about a child the five year old Boake. Who lives in Sweden in a Cit by the a. Ake s world has Sharp Clea reality there is no be fogging of the looking Glass no adult loftiness a All. His adventures Are told wit unsentimental clarity they Belon to the real world. It is his five year old thinking that lends then a touch of fantasia. His mind work with quite desperate literal Ess h makes inexorable demands adult knowledge. Sitting on h father s knee distrusting Adu vagueness he wants to know to big exactly on the Dot the strange lands Are. He is desperately disillusioned with the pastor in the Church we did not mean what he said Abou Rah being Praise for to greater for Ake Sang it out Lov and found Cut. He respects the Bell cow Frieda wonders at to vagaries of slightly mad aunt Ann Marie and keeps sundry puzzling matters tightly to himself it charming it is More than Charmin Jit is a Little masterpiece. The Book we especially recommend you to read this week the grandest volume of adventure in far places that has recently appeared in print and its title is just married adventure Toronto Long mans Green the author is Osa Johnson who describes in Crisp business like prose the experiences of herself and husband in photographing wild animals from 1917 to 1936 when or. Johnson was accidentally killed in a plane vivid is the word to describe mrs. Johnson s narrative of expeditions to the Solo Mon islands. Borneo Africa and the pages Are interspersed with incredibly successful photos of wild animals in their natural habitat. Getting these pictures was a difficult and expensive feat the Johnsons Pul in herculean labor took terrific risks but Uliey succeeded grandly. Mrs. Johnson s account of How the pictures were taken will enthral camera fans her report it dangerous funny arduous Advent regiment after the Spanish Ameri can War and brought to Calumet Iowa to work in the cafe of Butch Melton whom he had saved from drowning. The idea of Liberty stormed like a Tornado within this ardent Young Patriot exploding strange energies into his heart and mind and lend ing a touch of danger to his Man Ner. He studied As ardently As made to the Library to read books cracked open by no other citizen of Calu met philosophy and economics Mark and All about Thomas Jeffer son and Abraham Lincoln. When the first world War broke out he enlisted and went overseas soon to be reported missing in France. Years later the Young newspaper Man and the girl Pamela who As children had adored Cuba Libre of ind him in Havana hidden with a printing press behind an ersatz Loe repair shop Many Dusty Corri ors and a real guard with fire and a wicked scar in his Cheek ill a Tornado of a Man while aired no longer shouting now but ill fighting for the Freedom of Uba. Or. Kantor writes with the Purta skill we have come to expect of him. He writes with Superb Straim and Ardour trimmed and Ean like the Ardour of the mature Uba Libre. So make room among our immortals for this Small rown Man whose right name was Risto Lorenzo Rodriguez. The in ortals will not mind. He belongs Check list of books received the British Empire. By Tephen Leacock. 263 up. Tor Ito Dodd Mead. A Survey of a . Past and present that n t above a bit of humor to keep e Reader from bogging Down. Anchor s aweigh. By k. Auric Long. 316 up. London Ard. Lock. Sea adventure of in resting topicality which includes azi agents attempting to prevent shipment of Nickel to England. Mobilizing civilian Merica. By Harold j. Tobit. And Percy w. Bidwell. Foreword y Gen. F. R. Mccoy. 276 up. New Ork Council on foreign rela on. An enlightening Survey hat might be done in the Way of utilizing democracy s resources for Var purposes so As to get maximum results with minimum sacrifices and dangers. Timely and Sage Anc useful. Tures excite the Reader wanting something mystery thrillers the Crew of the Ana Conda by a. G. Macdonell. 300 up. Toronto Macmillan in Canada. The mercurial author of the autobiography of a cad will certainly baffle the critical gents this time he has writ ten a thriller a la Edgar Wallace. And it s quite a tour de Force using Britain s spy scare during the first few weeks of the present War As his Basic Skeleton author Macdonell recounts the daring exploits of a Little band of modern Robin hoods. The Leader of tha band is the Captain of the Ana Conda which by the any. Is the world s fastest motor launch. The Crew consists of three gentlemen skilled in skullduggery. This quartet aided by a swell Green eyed re latin Gal. Breaks the horrid azi spy ring after much baft be Lent. The fact that the skirt re uses the Captain s marriage pro Osal leads one to Hope that Lur her adventures of these charac ers will come along shortly the disappearance of eneral Jason. By p ;