“The book is to be welcomed warmly just because the Peace conference did not accomplish (whether it could have done so we need not here discuss) the enormous task it set itself, and Americans will be forced again and again to take a stand on new disputes arising from the settlements made.” B. L.
+ Survey 45:104 O 16 ’20 260w
“Within its limits the book, which is admirably written, is of great value. It contains a scholarly, open-minded, impartial account of such matters as the problem of Slesvig, and the questions concerning the status, and territorial extension of Belgium. It will do much good, for it serves as a useful antidote to the criticisms, often so ignorant and so partisan, of the territorial settlement.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p526 Ag 19 ’20 950w
HASLETT, ELMER. Luck on the wing; thirteen stories of a sky spy. il *$3 Dutton 940.44
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The personal narrative of a young American aviator in France. “The author records at the very outset how he preferred the clean air to the rat-haunted trenches, and it was that human desire to escape from the muddy, disagreeable ground that made him become a flying man. The book reads more like a novel than the record of a warrior.” (Bookm)
“Hardships and adventures are told with a youthful verve, without overstraining and with an ever ready appreciation when the joke is on himself.”
+ Booklist 17:66 N ’20