Shorter Notices
THE story of how the Good Soldier Schweik's kindred are deai-
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ing with the situation in the present war is told here in 140 Pages' They cover, however, more than the efforts of the man-in-the' street, important though these are. Mr. Hronek has had access to much underground material besides the published .records both sides, and some of it is reproduced in the illustrations He assesses the strength of Czechoslovakia before the Munich
agreements let the Germans inside the stronghold as: "1,300,003 men, nearly i,000 first-line aircraft, four mechanised division; well-planned concrete fortifications and the output of the Skods and Zbrojovka works, where the Bren gun was being produced' But the book is not written in a resentful spirit, and it faces the future more than it dwells on the past. The chapter on Food Sabotage is one of the most interesting. We know in England too little of Czechoslovakia, and this is a welcome source of enlightenment.
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