December 1946

Articles

• Nuremberg in Retrospect

  "It has crystallized the concept that there already is inherent in the international community a machinery both for the expression of international criminal law and for its enforcement."

  Charles E. Wyzanski

• If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used

  Was Japan already beaten before the August 1945 bombings?

  Karl T. Compton

• The Battle of the Claque

  Joseph Wechsberg

• As Switzerland Sees It

  Carl J. Friedrich

• How Sandy Claus Come to the River

  Ben Hur Lampman

• Battleground

  Edward Weismiller

• This Month

  C. W. M.

• Bats in the Bomb Bay

  Louis N. Ridenour

• Sea Food

  Crosby Gaige

• Skater

  Lysbeth Boyd Borie

• Look, Out, Here I Come!

  Bergen Evans

• For Any Scholar

  Louise Dauner

• A Night at the Mermaid

  Russell Maloney

• And I Quote

  R. J. Hicks

• James Joyce

  Harry Levin

• Literature and Hollywood

  James Hilton

• The Revised New Testament: Pros and Cons

  Amos Niven Wilder

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• Foreign Affairs Now and Then

• Thunder Out of China

  Owen Lattimore

• Mistress Masham's Repose

  Gretchen Finletter

• Under the Red Sea Sun

  William Mcfee

• Not So Wild a Dream

  James H. Powers

• Color Blind

  John Caswell Smith Jr.

• The Dark Wood

  Mary Pinchot

• The Lost War

  John Ashmead Jr.

• Behind Soviet Power

  Vera Micheles Dean

• J. B. Yeats: Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats and Others

  Robert Hillyer

• Command Decision: A Novel of the Army Air Forces

  William Wister Haines

• London

• Latin America

• The Far East

• A Year of Peacemaking

  Walter Lippmann

• Herald Angels Miss the Boat

  Agnes Newton Keith

• A Strange Alliance for Monopoly

  Robert R. Young

• Poems

  Robert Frost

• Writing Is My Life

  Thomas Wolfe

• In Defense of Mihailovich

  Constantin Fotitch

• The Nineteenth-Century American

  Henry Steele Commager

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