May 1942

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.

  Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

• The Making of Tomorrow

  Wilson Follett

• First Person Singular

  Edward Weeks

• Don Pedro and the Devil

  Robert M. Gay

• Commodore Vanderbilt

  Ellery Sedgwick

• Napoleon's Invasion of Russia

  William Henry Chamberlin

• New Hope

  Robert M. Gay

• Mediterranean Front

  Richard Ely Danielson

• Below the Potomac

  William Henry Chamberlin

• The Itching Parrot

  Wilson Follett

• Old McDonald Had a Farm

  Wilson Follett

• Salute to the Hero

  Richard Ely Danielson

• Kings and Desperate Men

  John Cournos

• The Nazi Underground in South America

  William Henry Chamberlin

• The Golden Flood

  Richard Ely Danielson

• The Undiscoverables and Other Stories

  John Cournos

• Frederick the Great

  William Henry Chamberlin

• The Roots of National Socialism

  William Henry Chamberlin

• Russia's Economic Front for War and Peace

  William Henry Chamberlin

• The Contributors' Column

• The Ghost of Napoleon: Thoughts After Reading 'War and Peace'

  Clifton Fadiman

• The Poison Pen

  William L. Shirer

• The Emotional Essence of Brahms

  Serge Koussevitzky

• Dynamite's Day Off

  Robert Easton

• The Army and Its Critics

  T. H. Thomas

• When I Was Twenty

  Winfield Townley Scott

• Preface to New Poems

  Jeremy Ingalls

• Isolation

  Jeremy Ingalls

• By the Cherwell

  John Buxton

• A Poet Goes to War

  John Buxton

• In Deep Concern

  May Sarton

• Education in an Emergency the Private School

  Richard M. Gummere

• Andover at War

  Claude M. Fuess

• My Conrad

  James Norman Hall

• Updike of Merrymount: The Scholar-Printer

  M. A. DeWolfe Howe

• Civilian Defense--Upstate

  Amos White

• Rumination

  Richard Eberhart

• The Last Harpooneer

  Austin Strong

• Gift of the Gods

  Nancy Bickel-Frent

• Four New Falcons

  W. L. White

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