Books: Ifs Over China

INSIDE RED CHINA—Nym Wales—Doubleday, Doran ($3).

UNCONQUERED—James Bertram—John Day ($3).

THE DRAGON WAKES—Edgar Ansel Mowrer—Morrow ($2).

In the year and a half since the "incident" at Marco Polo Bridge, Peiping, Japan's armies have marched through half of China's 18 provinces, captured all the major Chinese cities. China has won one major victory, at Taierhchwang. The score looks overwhelmingly one-sided. But in spite of that score, the three latest books on China all predict a Chinese victory.

Inside Red China, by the good-looking wife of Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China), describes four months spent in...