February 1947
In This Issue
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Articles
Harry Truman: 'The Japanese Were Given Fair Warning'
Exactly how the atomic bomb changed the course of history remains a matter of debate. The president who authorized its use says he had no other choice.
The Health of the Nation: A Plea for Public Medicine
A Boston physician of leading and liberal opinion, CHANNING FROTHINGHAM was physician to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1912 to 1933, and has been consultant physician since 1933. He was a member of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School from 1908 to 1933, when he became physician-in-chief of the Faulkner Hospital.
This Month
Wide-Awakes Through the Windscreen
Winter Beaches
Apples
Prove You're Human!
Gulls Flying
André Gide
Against the Grain: John Jay Chapman
Frederick Douglass
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Lincoln Eternal
The Shore Dimly Seen
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Harvey Cushing
Touched With Fire
Here Let Us Feast
A Treasury of Laughter
Thurlow Weed: Wizard of the Lobby
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
Latin America
The Right to Strike
London
How We Lost the Peace in 1937
» Peace was in the balance when Litvinov met the American Ambassador, Norman Davis, at the Brussels Conference. War could have been averted by an agreement for collective action. What was the trouble?
Ruskin and the Women
Songs of the Jailbird: Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
Writing Is My Life: The Novelist Under Fire
These letters of a great novelist illuminate the problems of every beginning writer.
Abraham Lincoln
Binky's Voice
The Bookseller as Teacher
John Marin
The Far East
The Zionist Illusion
American Prize Fight (Heard in Canada)
A Midwesterner educated at Stanford and Cornell (where in 1940 he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Henry Adams), ROBERT A. HUME now teaches English at the University of Nevada. He lives with his wife and three children on a minute ranch at the western edge of Reno. In contemplative moments he can look out upon the Sierra Nevada.
Why Were You Sent Out Here?
Mrs. Mike: The Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan
