Books: Morale

AGAINST THIS TORRENT — Edward Mead Earle— Princeton ($ I).

THE AMERICAN CENTURY—Henry R.Luce—Farrar & Rinehart ($1).

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all." Last week the big debate went on, but these two small books cut through the stale, stalled arguments of isolation v. intervention to the real problem—the problem of U.S. power and morale. Hitler wrote that, for Nazis, morale comes before guns. Those who had watched the moral catastrophe of...