Books: Spectre

WAR PROPAGANDA AND THE UNITED STATES—Harold Lavine & JamesWechsler— Yale ($2.75).

A spectre haunts the U. S.—the spectre of propaganda. Authors Harold Lavine (of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis) and James Wechsler have seen the ghost, and they believe it is going to get us into war if we don't watch out. They have been watching out for some time. Last fortnight they published their observations in War Propaganda and the United States, a slickly written, epigrammatic, rather loosely organized book, in which the authors, with a great show of objectivity, attempt to expose the efforts of European propagandists to embroil...

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