31 AUGUST 1945, page 18

A Policy For Defence

Defence is Our Business. By Brigadier J. G. Smyth, V.C., M (Hutchinson. 10s. 6d.) THERE has been a general and insistent demand that the Governme should make known its plans for......

Faith And Reconstruction

Building the New Age. By E. B. Castle. (Rich and Cowan. 7s. 6d.) IF the present generation fails to build a new age, it will not be from lack of architects' drawings. We must......

A Burmese Childhood

Quiet Skies on Salween. By Ellen Thorp. Cape. 7s. 6d., AFTER all the English books on India and Burma whose centre gravity is Home--so•that everything experienced out there is......