... conventional opinions and a strong objection to being known as the son of a gardener who was shot for cowardice and when the second World War comes, he welcomes it. Another illustration of the way Miss Goolden likes to avoid making life correspond with preconceived ...

... the Spanish Civil War, and of the events which led up to it. If the statement be accepted that the first battle of the second World War was the Civil War in Spain (and there are few to-day who would even attempt to argue it), this book must be said to have ...

... respondent. (She reminds him of the stewardess, he tells her, but tactfully.) Their romance, and their reactions to the second world war are presented with a shrewd mixture oj humour and propa gandist purpose by the same writing team that did the Ninotchka ...

... Gary Cooper, in which he describes the Civil War as a kind of rehearsal, just- happening to take place in Spain, for the second World War, there is little indication what the fracas is all about. This may be politically tactful, but it is not always dramatically ...

... intimate knowledge of the City and of Fleet Street and his background from the middle armistice years, culminating in the Second World War. In NO, MAN IS AN ISLAND (Heinemann. ios. 6d.), he has contrived a solid moral story which covers its ground of social ...

... but I cannot help feeling that the dramatist, had he been alive to-day and approached the theme as an aftermath of the Second World War, not of the first, might have been tempted to write it for the screen, rather than for the stage. The thing is natural ...

... of the war-forgetting mid-1920's we pass on inexorably, page by page, towards the bomb ruins and battlefields of tha,t second World War of which the mid-1940's have seen the close. Bewildered by present conditions, Mr. Quennell says, and baffled by our ...

... brief and much-regretted apostasy to Ashley Gardens, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes has always lived in that enchanted district. The Second World War drove her away from one house in Barton Street, but before it was over she had returned to another. In The Merry Wives ...

... Germany. Through out the First World War and in the uneasy days of peace she works for Germany, and now, at sixty, in the Second World War she is still serving the same masters in Cyprus, and dependent upon them for her very existence. This prim-looking, dignified ...

... in South Africa. His account of the plot to force General Smuts into a declaration of neutrality at the start of the Second World War will be an eye-opener to those who are apt to forget that it is not yet half a century since the close of the South African ...

... time 193 7- 1939, and the subject, broadly, the Jewish-Arab struggle which, obscured for us, here, by and during the Second World War, makes a violent re-emergence into our consciousness now. 'T'hieves in the Night makes its appear- J- ance. at a time ...

... sets in with the attachment to Pimlico. The story begins (I should calculate) in the late 1880's, and ends during the Second World War. It is, while implicitly modern in its values and view-point, not in th?' main modern as to actual time. I do not suggest ...