February 1960
In This Issue
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Articles
Two Heritages and a Prospect
Japanese Inns
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Books the Editors Like
3 Distinguished Novels
Reader's Choice
The Middle East
London
Two-Party Stalemate: The Crisis in Our Politics
Professor of political science at Williams College, who served as a combat historian in the Pacific during the war, JAME MACGREGOR BURNShas been active in Massachusetts and national politics since his college days. He is the author of ROOSEVELT: THE LION VND THE FOX, and his rune book, JOHN KENNEDY: A POLITICAL PROFILE, has just been published by Harcourt, Brace.
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
The Inside Story of Rudolf Hess
As First Secretory of the British Embassy in Berlin from 1933 to 1938, SIR IVORSE KIRKPATRICKestablished himself as an English expert on Hitler‘s Germany and was accordingly the man with whom Rudolf Hess had to deal when he made his sudden flight to Britain in 1941. After the war, Sir Ivone was the logical choice for Britain‘s High Commissioner to Germany.
Strikes and the Public Interest
A professor at the Harvard Law School, who was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1937 and who has been increasingly interested in matters of labor relations. ARCHIBVLD COX served as chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board in 1952. More recently he was a consultant to Senator John F. Kennedy in the preparation of the controversial Kennedy-Ives labor bill.
Don Nicola
After her graduation front Scripps College, MOLLIE MCCUSH studied at the University of Strasbourg on a french government fellowship. Later, in Paris, she met and married her Italian husband and lived for a few years in southern France and in Italy, the locale of the following story.
First Port
At no time in our past has the ATLANTIC received as many poems as are now submitted to us. They are evidence of an interest in poetry which never slackens. As an incentive for writers yet unestablished, we set aside a number of pages in our February and August issues to be devoted to the work of young poets.
In a Courtyard
Garden
Where Swallows Sleep
Lines From the Latin
To My African Friends
This irise and touching appeal to the young nations of Africa was written by ALBERT L. GUÉRARD shortly before his death last November. Paris-born, he came to this country in 1906. irhere he made a distinguished record as a teacher in various universities, notably at Stanford. He was the author of twenty books, the most recent being FRANCE: A MODERN HISTORY, which was published in 1959. in his eightieth year.
Calendar of Important European Events for February and March
The Loneliness of Billiwoonga
A born writer, who gives himself to the stage or to mimicry or to fiction as the spirit moves him, PETER USTINOV has recently been acting in Australia, where he found the setting and inspiration for this story, the third in his new sequence.
Grammar Is Obsolete
An author and editor who believes that English should be accurate , WILSON FOLLETT here takes issue with Bergen Erans and his sister, Cornelia, for what he regards as their tolerance of sloppy Ameriean usage. Mr. Follett is now at work on a comprehensire and systematic book on grammatical usage.
Brunswick's Fated Chieftain
As the head of the English Department of St. Bernard‘s School in New York. I HUMPHREY FRYhas occasionally felt the probing of inquiring young minds, as his account will show. Readers who enjoy his humor are directed to his satirical novel, IF THE CAP FITS,published by John Day a year ago.
The Enchanted Disenchanted
A native of New York and a graduate of Barnard College, JOYCE ENGELSONhas worked in the publishing field until recently, when she decided to devote full time to writing. She says: “What I am trying to do is to handle the matters orthodox to women‘s fiction, the matters of sentiment, but to explore and express them without sentimentality.” In this story she shows the sense and nonsense of the situation she describes.
It Takes Money to Get Elected: Should Corporations and Unions Contribute?
A lawyer, trained at Harvard and at the University of Chicago, LELAND H AZARD became general counsel for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in 1939, rising to be vice president and a director. A year ago he was appointed professor of industrial administration and law at the Carnegie institute of Technology.
Accent on Living
The O-Filler
Napoleon's Casters, Anybody?
