July 1943

Articles

• The Adventure

  Robert Hillyer

• Before the Ending of the Day

  Richardson Wright

• The Confessions of a Chocolate Eater

  William Henry Chamberlin

• Hitting the Nail or the Art of Puttering

  Earnest Elmo Calkins

• In War's Despite

  Caroline T. Howland

• Make-Believe War

• The Trouble With Father

  Rae Everitt

• Mill-Dam

  Daniel Sargent

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• There's Something in the Air

  Eelery Sedgwick

• The God of the Machine

• The Fall of Paris

• The Ministry of Fear

• Beethoven: Life of a Conqueror

• America's Role in Asia

• The Shining Trail

• Pilebuck

• Grandmother Drives South

• The Hero in History

• Japan's Military Masters

• The Heart Returneth

• Indigo: A Novel of India

  SYNOPSIS: A novel of life in an Indian garrison town, Amritpore, this story tells of the attraction and repulsion among the English, French, and natives who live there in uneasy proximity. Representative of the ruling English are John Macbeth and his attractive cousin, Bertie Wood, old Mrs. Lyttleton, and Aubrey Wall, the Civil Engineer. Wall detests natives and in a fit of violence kicks to death an opium-drugged Moslem servant.

  Christine Weston

• Latin America

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• Quotes

• European Front

• Inventors and Fighters: A New Chapter in Yankee Invention

  Harland Manchester

• Can We Finance the Future?

  Where can the money be found to rehabilitate those countries whose industries have been ruined by the war?

  James F. Bell

• Western Star

  Stephen Vincent Benét

• Children in Need: A Symposium

  Max Winsor, Camille Mcgee Kelley, and Virginia Chase Perkins

• Horse Thief

  Grace M. Sissons

• The Realities of War and Peace

  » Walter Lippmaun argues that no peace can be secured without our help. The question is: How far will we go in our foreign policy, and with what force will we hack it up?

  Hans Kohn

• A Novelist Takes Stock

  Walter D. Edmonds

• Yank in a Spitfire

• John Butler Yeats

  Padraic Colum

• Darkness

  Mark Aldanov

• The Pacific War

• A Senator Looks at Congress

  Robert M. La Follette Jr.

• Let's Eat in the Grill

  Louise Pierson

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