Books: Irreverent Details

THE AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC GAME— Drew Pearson and Constantine Brown— Doubleday, Doran ($3).

"From the Kellogg Pact to the Next World War," might well be the subtitle of this knockabout, irreverent story of U. S. foreign policy over the past eight years. From the time of Calvin Coolidge's troubles with an oil-seeking Great Britain to the days of Cordell Hull's headache over the tariff, much of what Messrs. Pearson & Brown have to tell is the common property of assiduous newsreaders. But many of the details have not been divulged until now. Some of the more...

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