NEW BOOKS: The Plight of Russia

(Political, Economic, Historical, Biographical)

The Plight of Russia

RUSSIA AND PEACE — By Fridtjof Nansen—Macmillan ($2.00). Certainly since the separation of Norway and Sweden in 1905, Fridtjof Nansen has been much in the public eye.* On his errands of mercy to Russia, he has had the opportunity to view and review the conditions under which that unhappy country has been existing for the past few years. The observations which he has made, and the information which he has gleaned, obviously from Soviet quarters, form the material for the book. Dr. Nansen...