NOT PEACE BUT A SWORDVincent SheeanDoubleday, Doran ($2.75).
A sound reporter keeps his private opinions out of his copy. James Vincent Sheean was once such a reporter. In Personal History he chronicled the stages by which he went on to become a crack foreign correspondent, began to take sides violently, learned that he was "no longer a newspaper man." But Ex-Reporter Sheean made an even better living by writing slick-paper magazine stories, historical novels with up-to-date political implications, touring the U. S. lecture circuit. Last year he turned to personalized history again. Not Peace but a Sword, his firsthand account of that...