Dr. Goebbels may rightly be considered one of the most efficient The Royal Visit "L'Illustration" (13 Rue Saint-
Georges, Paris, 7 fr, 50) for July 30 is a very vivid special number, bearing on the cover an effective portrait of the King in his robes, and showing Paris en fête within. There are organizers of domestic propaganda any nation has ever had. As such his psychology of attack might well form a separate study. "We shall present the government with accomplished: fact." "It's no^good to bark unless you bite" "A National Sodalist only feels himself when he is at liberty to make a fight of In the first great moment of triumph, May Day of 1933, Goebbels still sees the work of the Nazis an offensive:
"Tomorrow we shall seize the houses of the Trade Unions. There will be hardly any resistance anywhere, The struggle is going on!"
In his preface Dr. Goebbels characterizes his diary as a monument to the Party in its great struggle, and to the Sturm Abteilung. "It offers more to the world than could be gathered from any erection of stone or marble." True that is. One can see in this book the microcosm of German history of the past six years.
PMR, Civilians and War coloured full-page drawings of the arrival, the gala at the Opera, and a wonderful two-page one of the dejeuner at Versailles—from which can be judged'the splendour that were to be seen, The number is full of photographs of the historic occasion—clear, very artistic, and some of them most impressive. From those in which Her Majesty appears it can be judged how enchanting she must have looked—and in the photograph of the procession coming down the grand staircase from the Opera—preceded by flambeauz—Her Majesty's crinoline gown looks particularly charming.
L'Illustration" is always an attractive weekly, and this number is one to be kept, devoted as it is almost entirely to the royal visit. With it goes (according to one's subscription) "La Petite Illustration" a little book of a play—this time a modern one but "Othello," probably in keeping with the extreme Britishness of the number—though even "Othello" in French has a different charm, and there are photographs of scenes from the production.
Wuar War Means The Japanese Terror in China. A Documentary Record By H. J, Timperley, China Cor. respondent, "Manchester Guardian. Gollancz, London. 7/8.
'This is a compilation of eye-witness accounts by foreign observers of Japanese military treatment of Chinese' civilians and civilian property. Approximately 160 pages are given to episodes at Nanking, 90 pages to those at Paoting, Soochow, Hangchow, Wusih and other cities. They are a record of brutalities to individuals, looting and destruction of property, bombing of civilians in cities and on trains, and the deliberate terrorism of the renin and "destructive pioneers."
Mr. Timperley states it as his purpose to give the facts as accurately as possible "so that war may be recognized for the detestable business it really is and thus be stripped of "the false glamour with which militarist megalomaniacs seek to invest it." Hence the title of the book.
It is a useful source book, for the record of such events should be available. But a source book needs enlightening commentary to give significance and interpretation, and of this Mr, Timperley has been rather too sparing. A concluding chapter of eight pages comes nearest of fulfilling this. need.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.