Books: Michael & The Angell

MAKE THIS THE LAST WAR—Michael Straighf—Harcourt, Brace ($3).

LET THE PEOPLE KNOW—Norman Angell—Viking ($2.50).

When the curtain rises on the post-war world the scene may be something like this: 6,000,000 German soldiers fleeing in disorder; 5,000,000 foreign workers and prisoners of war abandoning Germany; 2,000,000 Hungarian, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Spanish soldiers pouring home from the Eastern front; 3,000,000 Poles straggling back to their wasted territory; 50,000,000 Soviet citizens surging back into western Russia.

These desperate homegoers will return to many villages that have been destroyed and towns that have been razed or are filled...