That war in any form is bestial and brutal and can never be made humane cannot be gain said, and it is in a laudable attempt to outlaw war in every way that Mr, Lansbury has travelled to America and various European capitals on "peace campaigns" giving lectures to large audiences on the folly of nations endeavouring to strangle each other economically and on the futility of war and strife. He has met and interviewed heads of states and has exchanged views and ideas with them on the ever important question of "Peace and How to Maintain Peac Among the interesting personalities he has encountered are Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini, and his pen-pictures of these gentlemen and their reaction to his proposals for their assistance in a World-Wide Peace Plan are delightfully graphic and full of strong meat for those who desire first-hand impressions of the c acteristic and qualities that have made these men the powers that they now are.
It is probable ihat a great deal of ssument will he the outcome of ung this volume, for many of the author's schemes seem drastic, farfetched, unreasonable, and only possible of consummation ín some Utopian state, but nevertheless he has the courage and sincerity of his own convictions to keep on trying to help the world ju a time of stress and dire need, so that the reader whatever his or her own political leanings, cannot refrain from applauding atid \enthusing over the praiseworthy ambitions of this Grand Old Man.—FAP.
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