September 1939

Articles

• Concentration Camp

  “Men ... are brought, for the 'protection of the people and the State,' into a concentration camp without hearing, without court sentence, without the possibility of redress, and for an indefinite time.”

  Dr. X

• City Without Children

  A correspondent describes the early days of Britain's war with Germany when, in anticipation of bombings and gassings, more than half a million children were sent away from London.

  Storm Jameson

• Atlantic Repartee

  Allison Pierce Moore, Margaret Lydia Dana, Edwina Davis, Faye Cashatt Lewis, Claire M. Spotswood, J. K. Cressey, Etta Griffith, Harriet Pratt Bodefield, E. Hoffmann Price, and R. Margaret Volker

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• Moses and Monotheism

  Gregory Zilboorg

• Christ in Concrete

  E. B. Garside

• The Last War and the Next

  John W. Thomason Jr.

• Watch for the Dawn

  A. W. Smith

• Storm Jameson and Rumer Godden

  Frances Woodward

• The Peoples Library

  John Cournos

• The Flowering Seed

  Donald Culross Peattie

• Look in Your Glass

  Ruth Gordon

• Behind the Budget

  Stuart Chase

• Six Kings

  G. A. Borgese

• Par l'Amour

  Franz Werfel

• I Am Not Myself

  H. E. Bates

• The Schwabing Alp

  Roda Roda

• Crisis

  W. H. Auden

• Town Against Country

  Wilson Follett

• Let's Go See

• Texas Banks Its Oil

  Gerald Donoghue

• The Feeble of the Who's

  Theodore Spencer

• The Schism

  Theodore Morrison

• The Departure

  George Allen

• Poland

  Walter Duranty

• Under Thirty

  Lewis W. Ware and Hambla Bauer

• Not Acceptable

  Ernest Earnest

• Getting Well

  Anne Goodwin Winslow

• Rogue Male

  Geoffrey Household

• The Contributors' Column

  Mary C. Geisy, Edwin Hewitt, Bernard J. Mullaney, Philip C. Gifford, and Louise S. Lamphier

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