“The ultimate political advantage for the world of a Russia free from economic vassalage to militaristic neighbors is obvious, but Mr Spargo’s case would be equally strong if he did not magnify the danger of Russia’s position; for whatever may be the reality of Japan’s menace in Siberia the threat from Germany to European Russia or of a German-Japanese alliance belongs for the present in the realm of imagination.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ − Nation 110:730 My 29 ’20 2000w + N Y Evening Post p3 Ap 10 ’20 1250w
“Mr Spargo’s study is vitally interesting and illuminating, and it contains a wealth of precise information which will be priceless to business men in many lines when the time comes for meeting German commercial rivalry in her new Mitteleuropa.” J: Corbin
+ N Y Times 25:127 Mr 21 ’20 1600w
“Vital and patriotic book.”
+ N Y Times 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 100w Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 9 ’20 620w
Reviewed by Reed Lewis
Survey 44:51 Ap 3 ’20 200w
SPEARS, RAYMOND SMILEY. River prophet. il *$1.50 (1c) Doubleday
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