WHILE TIME REMAINS

by Leland Stoe ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 22, 1946

**We wish that by labelling this a Must Book we could guarantee that every thoughtful citizen would read it and weigh its message. Leland Stowe always has something worth saying and a fearless way of saying it. This is his most challenging book. It will make a lot of people angry; it will be pooh-poohed in high circles of politics and industry; it will make the new line label pinners tag Stowe a Communist. But if it makes people read it and talk about it, some of its meat will nourish starved brains, some of its criticisms will find a target, some of its warnings will be heard. Stowe views the new world of the Atomic Age with eyes trained to see the truth. He is bluntly critical of many of Washington's blunders, failures in responsibility and leadership. He is angrily critical of Britain's role in Greece, and gives substantial evidence that his anger is justified. He charges the democracies with either a do-nothing-policy or with backing the wrong side, thus creating counter-revolution and providing fertile soil for the very thing the conservatives and the democracies fear-Communism. And if he accomplishes nothing else in this tour of the revolutionary world we inhabit, in this inventory,-his clarification of terms, his definitions of words too loosely used would make the book worth reading. He sees the writing on the wall (and few of our correspondents have seen it more often and more accurately)- and though at times he is open to criticism in making generalities from facts not wholly established, in the main he sees a Europe veering to the left (not necessarily to Communism, but to a middle ground of Socialism), and an Asia rattling the chains of long colonial oppression, strengthening a rampant nationalism, and despairing of an American that allows the old masters to forge those chains anew. And finally, he questions America's preparedness for peace- America's willingness to accept the necessity of the successive steps which must be taken to world government-sole answer in a new age under the sword of Damocles, the Atom Bomb....An important book.

Pub Date: Aug. 22, 1946

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Publisher: Knopf

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1946

Categories: NONFICTION