The American Mercury May 1939

01/20/2011 American Mercury

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Little Jack Garner; Russia’s Role in Spain, by Irving Pflaum

Robert B. Hotz on the End of Liechtenstein

A Southerner Likes the North, by William Edgerton

Charles Francis Portier has Fun Among the Fundamentalists

Requiem for the League of Nations, by Reginald Wright Kauffman

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