Books: Seven Years' War

THEY WANTED WAR—Ctto D. To-lischus—Reynal & Hitchcock ($3).

For seven years (since early 1933), readers who wanted to know what was really happening in the Third Reich, and why, turned to dispatches in the New York Times under the strangely un-American name of Otto D. (for David) Toli-schus (rhymes with delicious). Typical Tolischus dispatches were careful, rather staid, rarely sensational. Their author never predicted that the Nazi regime was about to be overthrown by "underground" groups. Though the U. S. press was filled with stories of German disaffection, Timesman Tolischus stated baldly that...