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DRAGON’S TEETH. By Upton Sinclair. T. Werner Laurie Ltd., London. 10/6 net. Whatever critics say of Upton Sinclair the novelist, he is one of the ablest propagandists of his time. Through his novels he has denounced, iniquities varying from meat works scandals to oil racketeering. This time he has used his head as much as his heart. Though the civilised world needs no convincing today that the growth of Fascism in Europe meant horror in peace followed by the terror of war, the civilised world can do well to read this lesson again. "Dragon’s Teeth" is the last of a trilogy; reading it you get a panorama of social and economic events (1929 to 1934) through the eyes of Lanny Budd, a rich American, pink enough to annoy alike the Right and the Red, and liberal enough to risk his life in helping a Jew to escape from infamous Dachau, Lanny skips | around Europe, England and
America with the avidity of a movietone news cameraman. The author packs into his story the inside dope on armaments, international finance, domestic life, and political ideologies. The result is good propaganda and a competent novel. Sinclair, the old warrior, has done an unpleasant job with patience and fire.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 195, 19 March 1943, Page 9
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207SWASTIKA SHADOW New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 195, 19 March 1943, Page 9
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