May 1942

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Articles
China Emergent
In the midst of World War II, as China's Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, struggled against Japanese invaders from without and the Communist movement from within, his Wellesley College–educated wife decried the exploitation of China by the West and delineated a vision for a more democratic future.
The Making of Tomorrow
First Person Singular
Don Pedro and the Devil
Commodore Vanderbilt
Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
New Hope
Mediterranean Front
Below the Potomac
The Itching Parrot
Old McDonald Had a Farm
Salute to the Hero
Kings and Desperate Men
The Nazi Underground in South America
The Golden Flood
The Undiscoverables and Other Stories
Frederick the Great
The Roots of National Socialism
Russia's Economic Front for War and Peace
The Contributors' Column
The Ghost of Napoleon: Thoughts After Reading 'War and Peace'
The Poison Pen
The Emotional Essence of Brahms
Dynamite's Day Off
The Army and Its Critics
When I Was Twenty
Preface to New Poems
Isolation
By the Cherwell
A Poet Goes to War
In Deep Concern
Education in an Emergency the Private School
Andover at War
My Conrad
Updike of Merrymount: The Scholar-Printer
Civilian Defense--Upstate
Rumination
The Last Harpooneer
Gift of the Gods
Four New Falcons
