Terror in Our Time
$3.00 By LONGMANS, GREEN
SPIES have been with us since very ancient Biblical times, and their activities have vastly expanded since the first World War. The emergence of the revolutionary dictatorship has made for a vast increase both in secret police work within the dictator-ruled countries and in the number of camouflaged agents who are sent abroad. So Mr. Rowan has an abundance of exciting material for his book, which is a collection of stories of terrorist and espionage episodes of recent times. The author plays no favorites; and the Soviet Gay-Pay-Oo, the Nazi Gestapo, the Italian Fascist O.V.R.A.,all figure prominently, along with miscellaneous Balkan terrorists of the type that arranged the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. A good many of the stories in the book rest mainly on hypothesis and conjecture; government secret-service agents are harder to catch and convict than Scarface A1 Capones. But almost all the episodes make exciting reading, and Mr. Rowan possesses a vivid colorful style, even if he sometimes overworks the melodramatic element. W. H. C.
The critics in this issue of the Atlantic are: —
W.H.C. WILLIAM HENTRY CHAMBERLIN
R.E.D. RICHARD ELY DANIELSON
R.M.G. ROBERT M. GAY
A.J.N. ALBERT JAY NOCK
F.W. FRANCES WOODWARD