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ON THE WAR

• WAR AND PEACE: NOTE ON PACIFISM - 5/10/'36 - Quest for matériel by Germany, Italy, Japan = war
• Book Review: TIME OF THE SCORN - May 31, 1936- House-painter plays God; novel shows SA boot-terror
• Book Reviews: BEHIND THE FACE OF JAPAN - June 7, 1936 - Close says likely U.S. will fight Japan to block hegemony aim
• DICTATOR'S FATE - August 9, 1936 (**) -Dictators in Italy get bad end
• SPANISH BLOOD - August 23, 1936 (**) Spain to be Fascist or Communist?
• FASCISM vs. COMMUNISM - September 13, 1936(**)-Both systems idiotic
• BLESSING AND BLOOD - 9/20/'36 (**) -Pope blesses Spanish rebels; wrong-headed
• Book Review: WELLS SEES A SAD WORLD, BUT DECLINES TO DESPAIR - 9/27/'36 (**) - Utopia still possible if man takes charge of destiny
• SUICIDE IN THE WEST - 10/4/'36( **) - Western World committing suicide
• LION DOWN THE RIVER -12/27/'36 (**)-British weakness why Musso., Hitler thrive
• PROVERBS FOR PRINCES - 1/10/'37(**) - Destroy defeated enemy or do not punish
• Book Review: THE CAUSES OF WAR - 3/7/37 (**) - U.S. can't afford neutrality
• THE GANGSTER NATIONS - March 21, 1937 (A) - Italian purges in Ethiopia, German-Italian troops in Spain; portends war; isolationism will not work or last
• FUEHRER AND DUCE STUMPED - April 25, 1937 (**) - Franco to fail in Spain
• WHY WE WENT TO WAR - May 2, 1937 (**) British must be saved again
• THE ARROGANT FRITZ - 6/6/'37 (**) - Nazis equate paper with reality
• Book Review: STUDY OF MAN - 7/4/'37 (A) - Book says no racial superiority; sensible; housepainter wrong
• HOUSEPAINTER LOOKS AT ART - July 25, 1937 (**) - Hitler uses "common sense" to define "art"
• WHO SHOULDERS THESE CRIMES? - 8/29/'37 (A) - U.S., Britain allow Japanese attack on Shanghai
• EUROPE'S KU KLUCKERS 9/5/'37 (**) - Hitler corrupts Nietzsche; Musso. uses Machiavelli
• DAWN FOR DICTATORS - 2/27/'38 (A) - Spengler true; cycle=barbarism - feudalism - civilization and then from complexities come dictators and barbarism
• FANATIC FUEHRER - 3/20/'38 (A) -Mein Kampf reveals Heel's plans candidly
• POET AND SUPERMAN - 3/27/38 (A) - Nietzsche is poet, not philospher
• Book Review: DOG EAT DOG IN EUROPE - June 26, 1938 (A) - France, England not pristine, but not barbaric as Germany; book saying U.S. has little in common interesting
• BLOCKADE IN BOSTON - July 24, 1938 (A) - Barring film on Spanish war dangerous
• HEEBIE-JEEBIES FOR THE FRENCH - August 21, 1938 (M) - German offensive on Czechs, Italian aid to Franco, Britain's inaction, keys to war; France holding the bag.
• BRITISH RULING CLASS - October 23, 1938 (M) - Britain better off if Bumble goes
• Book Review: NAZI SPIES IN AMERICA - 1/29/'39 (**) - "Ghosted" FBI book intriguing; but spy "cattle" in U.S. no real worry; Mexico greater problem
• DER FUEHRER CALLS HIMSELF ART CRITIC - 3/26/'39 (M) Hates "mongrelized" impressionism; but is he not impressionist by definition of the form?
• Book Review: DOROTHY THOMPSON HITS NAIL - 8/27/'39 (M) - Her predictions on Hitler's intentions were uncannily accurate
• WAR BOOK DELUGE - 10/8/'39 (M) - Contemporaneous books will be bad; those on scene so far just Nazi and Communist propaganda from biased U.S. journalists
• Book Review: BEARD URGES ISOLATION FOR U.S. - 10/15/'39 (M) - Beard wrong; it does matter if Hitler wins in Europe; eventual threat to U.S.
• Book Review: BARBUSSE PORTRAYS WAR HORROR - 10/22/'39 (M) - Book on WWI best revelation of truth of brutality of modern warfare; not for the squeamish
• TIME SHOWS CONRAD KNEW REAL GERMANY - 11/5/'39 - (M) Poles know best of unfitness of Germany to administer colonies
• Book Review: GERMANY REAL LOSER IN POGROMS - 11/19/'39 (M) - Benet story shows horror of being Jew in Europe at present
• Mr. Cash Gloats As Mr. Markham Capably Answers Mrs. Lindbergh - April 3, 1941
• Book Review: HELL-BENT FOR WAR - April 16, 1941

ON SOUTHERN LITERATURE

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• REALISTS ARE HAUNTED BY PERSONAL DEVILS - 11/17/'35(**) - On the Southern "realist" writers
• NOTES ON A SUBJECT FOR A SOUTHERN NOVEL - 11/24/'35 - (**) Re: Class
• Book Review: TWO PROFESSORS WRITE PENETRATING SOCIAL HISTORY - 12/8/'35 (**) - Re: South
• WOLFE: GENIUS OR NOT? - 12/15/'35(**) Re: Thomas Wolfe critics
• SOUTHLAND TURNS TO BOOKS WITH FULL VIGOR - 2/ 9/'36
• THAT FOR TATE: CLASSICS AND SOIL - March 29, 1936 (*)Agrarians
• AN EPITHET; OH, SO SAD - April 5, 1936(*) Re: Faulkner; ideas in novels
• WHY WE'UNS DIDN'T WRITE - May 24, 1936 (*) - The South felt, didn't analyze
• PSEUDOPODIA - July 19, 1936 (**) - Southern literary magazine has merit
• LITERATURE OF THE NEGRO - July 26, 1936 (**) - Stereotypes gone
• REALISM AND ROMANCE: SOUTHERN VIEW - October 18, 1936
• Book Review: BASSO'S COURTHOUSE SQUARE ACCURATE - October 25, 1936 (**) - Small-town South, darkness and gentility, depicted
• NOT LIKE AN ANGEL - Nov. 8, 1936 (**) - Faulkner best of young novelists
• THE NEGRO AND HIS POETRY - April 11, 1937 (**) - New poetry original, fine
• MILLION DOLLAR BABY - May 16, 1937 (**) - Mitchell's GWTW not good, not bad
• Book Review: THE REUNION ROAD - 6/13/'37 (A) - Book too gentle on South
• JURGEN IN THE SOUTH - June 20, 1937 (A) - South won't read Cabell; "subversive"
• Book Review: PEDAGOGUE BARKS AT POE- 6/27/'37 (A) - Prof. dislikes shabby bum genius; Cash defends
• BRIGHT PENS IN GEORGIA - August 8,1937 (**) - More kudos for Smith, Snelling
• MIRROR TO THE SOUTH - 8/22/'37 (**) - Southerners did not think; felt
• ICONOCLAST OF CHARM - 10/24/'37 (A) - Evelyn Scott none too gentle on South
• UNC & UVA: TWO SOUTHERN SCHOOLS - 11/21/'37 (A) - UNC reveres mind; UVA reveres honor, gentility, tradition; Duke strives but falls short
• BABEL IN THE SOUTH - 12/12/'37 (A) - Southerners have several languages
• BACKYARD, SOUTH VIEW- 12/26/'37 (A) - Southerners need to look at "backyard"
• Book Review: LINCOLN'S BROKEN PROMISES 3/13/'38 (A) - Book by Henry on Reconstruction good read
• ON CAROLINA'S PAST - 5/8/'38 (A) - Paul Green right in saying N.C. has no literary past, but definitely has historic past; people varied widely
• Book Review: SOCIOLOGY'S HISTORIC FROG - 5/15/'38 (A) - "Facts" misleading in book; South was far behind North
• THIS LADY BELITTLED US - July 10, 1037 (A) - Antebellum actress Kemble exaggerated but has much to say to us of how Old South really was circa 1863
• ROOSEVELT LOOKS TO ODUM - July 17,1938 (A) - South must face its growing economic backwardness
• THE SOUTH HIDES ITS EYES - October 2, 1938
• PERSPECTIVES OF THE SOUTH - 10/9/'38 (M) - Bitter critique was necessary --now softening; was reaction to sentimental inculcation in youth
• ON LIVING FOREVER - October 16, 1938 (M) - Wolfe will live on--yet not forever
• O. HENRY PASSES THE TEST - April 16, 1939 (M) - Is read after death
• CALDWELL, FAULKNER ROMANTIC - 11/26/'39 (M) - With Steinbeck, they are neither romantics nor realists, but good reporters of realistic but two-dimensional characters
• Book Review: JONATHAN DANIELS DISCOVERS NEW ENGLAND-5/19/'40 (**) - Well-written book, but, being by Southerner, cannot penetrate beyond New England's surface
• Book Review: LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE - May 10, 1941

ON WRITING, READING, AND THE STATE OF LITERATURE/ART

• WRITER'S TITLE FALLS ON ODD SHOULDERS - 12/22/'35(**) Who is a writer?
• OBSEQUIES FOR NOVEL ABSURD - 1/5/'36(*) - Novels, poetry will survive
• GOOD TASTE SPRINGS FROM DESPISED REPRINT PAGES - 2/16/'36(*)
• HANG THE TEACHERS! - March 8, 1936 - Teachers of literature who don't love it
• WHY WRITE? AH, HELEN KNOWS WHY - March 15, 1936(*)
• WHAT IS A READER? - June 28, 1936 - Answer is not he who reads most books, pussycat
• CRITICISM OF CRITICISM - JULY 5, 1936 (**) Speak truth; regadless of objurgations
• THESE GENIUSES - August 2, 1936 (**) - "Genius" over-used
• OLD MAIDS AND SATYRS - August 16, 1936 (**) What is a dirty book?
• READING FOR SUB-DEBS-11/15/'36(**)-Candy and books okay for children
• COLLEGE-BRED BALLOONS - 12/6/'36(**) - College graduates most ignorant
• A DEFINITION OF ART - 12/13/'36 (**) - Tolstoy said it best: that which infects
• NATHANAL ANTHEM - 2/7/'37 (**) - Geo. Jean Nathan writes play; has to work
• THIS SENTIMENTAL CULT - March 28, 1937 (A) - Such a clean mind as we pretend never existed anywhere
• IT'S UNWISE TO BE TOO WISE - April 4, 1937 (A) - Wm. Hazlitt said it best
• THEY WOULDN'T WRITE - 5/9,/'37 (**) -Much talent laid to waste. Why?
• CENSOR'S LEWD EYE SCANS GYPSY ROSE LEE-5/23/'37 (**) - Obscene? Worse things.
• A PECULIARITY CALLED STYLE - July 11,1937 - (A) Style=peculiar vision, e.g. Cabell, Hemingway
• Book Review: CONTEMPORARY POETS - 7/18/'37 (A) - "Marxian" poets not really; for oppressed--art must express surroundings to be art
• BEGGARS LIBEL HELEN OF THE FAIR HAIR - 8/15/37 (**) - Critics off
• SOURCES OF GENIUS - October 17, 1937 (A) - Great writing came from without
• FROM ZOLA--TO SWING! - 10/31/'37 (A)-We are a "superficial civilization"
• Book Review: BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS - 11/7/'37 (A)- 11th ed. by Morley
• OF TIME AND THE WRITER - 11/14/'37 (A) - Morley says good books take years
• PRIVATE LITERARY LIVES - 11/28/'37 (A) - Writers interesting egoistic fakers
• THE PROFESSOR'S PRIZE - 12/19/'37 (A) - Mayflower Cup to wrong type of book
• SINCLAIR vs. TRIBUNE 1/23/'38 (A) - Herald-Tribune should not cut Upton Sinclair
• FROM SPARTACUS TO JAMES BRANCH CABELL - 2/6/'38 (A) - Cash utters blasphemy: Old heroic sentiment sparks all Amercian writers from Cabell to Hemingway
• BONFIRES FOR TOO MANY BOOKS - 2/13/'38 (A) - Shipp & Cash say throw out read books
• FOOTNOTE TO FANTASY - June 5, 1938 (A) - American writers cannot do fantasy
• RUM, ROMANISM, AND REBELLION; OR, RIDE FOR A LEARNED MAN - 6/12/'38
• THOSE INFERNAL FOOTNOTES - 7/31/'38 (A) - Footnotes = incompetent writer
• ARTISTS AIN'T GENTS - 10/30/'38 (M) - Wolfe wrote his truth, as an artist must
• WHAT AMERICA READS - 1/22/'39(M) - Mostly books made movies, says Gallup
• COUNTRY BOYS WRITE BETTER BOOKS - 4/2/'39 (M) - City too confusing; farm too isolated; small town provides microcosm of humanity, warts and wens--best fodder
• HALF A CENT FOR BOOKS - 6/25/'39 (M) - Library will close in Charlotte unless half-cent tax passed
• PUBLISHERS EXPLORING FOR TALENT - 10/29/'39 (M) - Easy to get published in 1939, but once upon a time...
• Book Review: REALISM CALLED IMMORAL - 12/10/'39 (M) - Studs Lonigan series shows immorality of characters but portrays also moral of tale
• *PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR - 1/7/'40 (M) - Graph tells all

COMMENTS ON NON-SOUTHERN AUTHORS

• SAID FILES ON PARADE--MEMORIES OF A PARLOR - 1/26/'36 - Homage to Kipling
• DR. CASH HOLDS FINAL RITES FOR HEMINGWAY - 4/12/'36
• ON LIBERTY: REQUIRED READING - April 19, 1936(*)
• BAD MR. LEWIS: HE WRITES OF HOTELS - April 26, 1936(*)
• NOTE ON CHARM: IN THREE BOOKS - May 17, 1936 (*) - On Pepys, Montaigne, Chaucer
• PAPA FRANZ BOAS - JULY 12, 1936 (**) - "Race", says Boas, does not exist; correct.
• FALLACIES IN WISDOM.- 10/11/'36 (**) - Bentham said past generations less wise
• WHY EUGENE O'NEILL? - 12/20/'36 (**) - Does not deserve Nobel
• A LIBEL ON THE MIDWEST - 1/17/'37 (A) - Midwestern writers not inept as Southern journal, pawn of Agrarians, claims
• OLD KARL'S IDEALISM - Feb. 14, 1937 - Marx not really worth the worry
• JUSTICE TO TOM PAINE - Feb.21, 1937 (A) - He is true "Father of Country"
• THERE'S ALWAYS MICAWBER - 5/30/'37 (**)-Dickens not always sentimental
• HENRY IS LOOSE AGAIN - August 1, 1937 (**) - Mencken proposes sterilization
• THE STRANGE STORY OF CONRAD - 10/3/'37 (A) Conrad's life at sea intriguing; so is his adoption "by" English language
• DEATH WITH HONOR - 4/3/'38 (A) - Joseph Conrad believed in one thing--honor
• IBSEN IS STILL LIVELY - July 3, 1938 (M) - Peer Gynt scene shows Ibsen not outmoded
• WHY WE ARE NOT HUMAN - 8/7/'38 (M) - Cram article on "real humans" enslaving the bestial masses pro bono publico must be comfortable philosophy for crammers
• NOBEL PRIZE TO PEARL BUCK - 11/13/'38 (M) - Deserved, but for one book?

MISCELLANEOUS BOOK REVIEWS

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• JAFFE REVEALS FAR OUTPOSTS OF SCIENCE - 12/1/'35 (**)
• SANTAYANA'S FIRST NOVEL A MASTERPIECE -2/2/'36 (*)
• MR. HILAIRE BELLOC ARGUES GRANDLY ATHWART MODERN RELIGIOUS PATTERN - 3/8/'36
• GRAND STORY OF THE IRISH SCHOOL - 3/22/'36
• SOPHISTICATION MARKS NOVEL ABOUT A GENIUS - 3/22/'36 (*)
• LIBERTY LEAGUE CASTS THE FIRST STONE - May 3, 1936 - Economic despotism threat
• FANTASTIC TALE CARRIES READER INTO YEAR 1985 - May 17, 1936 - Not 1984, but...
• OPPOSITION TO GENIUS - June 14, 1936(*) - Genius always heretical, book shows
• THE SPIRIT OF THE BRITISH - September 6, 1936 (**) Resilience always
• DEATHLESS LADY - 1/24/'37 (**) - If Winter Comes was excellent novel from early '20's
• The Ultimate Power - Feb. 28, 1937 (A) - Should Supreme Court's "usurped" power to overrule Congress, President be diluted, restrained?
• CHRIS MORLEY'S GREEKS - 12/5/'37 (A) - Modern Troilus & Cressida
• AND THEY SOUGHT TO HANG JEFFERSON - 5/22/'38 (**) - "Trickle down" or strong central government
• PRIMER POLITICAL GUIDE- 8/14/'38 (M) - Dorothy Thompson's articles on "isms" mix of brilliance and vagueness
• WHITE BLASTS LEGEND - 11/12/'39 (M) - The West was settled by mainly pious Protestants unfettered by traditional burdens of East, i.e., slavery, plutocracy
• WORK PAINS PAYNE - 12/3/'39 (M) - Half-loaf thesis good, but disappointing, for wish by Cash is for full loaf

GENERAL BOOK-PAGE EDITORIALS

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• McCANN MEETS THE TEST - August 30, 1936 (**) - Irishman survives mine disaster; right stuff
• IDEALS AND TRAITORS - Nov. 1, 1936 (**) - "Americanism", free speech
• PSYCHOQUACKERY - 1/3/'37 (**) - Psychoanalysis filled with quacks
• COUNTRY GENTLEMEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE - 1/2/'38 (A) - Jackson and Roosevelt compared; does FDR want bigger budget like book?
• NOW, WHAT IS A LIBERAL? - November 6, 1938

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