Books: Appeal for Aid

FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA—Henry Noel Brailsford—Whittlesey House ($1).

Last fortnight came the first open appeal by an Englishman of international reputation for the U. S. to declare war on Germany. The pioneer was 67-year-old, liberal Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, longtime contributor to the Manchester Guardian in England, The New Republic here. His plea, From England to America, A Message, is an amplification of a New Republic article of June 17. In making it, he let out of the bag one of the biggest and blackest cats that shiftier interventionists have tried to hide.

Unlike ancient Sir George Paish, whose doddering singlehanded attempt...