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Edmond Taylor is an intelligent, sensitive, political journalist who, after some fifteen years as a correspondent in France, served during the war as an expert in cloak-and-dagger psychological warfare, then spent several years in India. Richer by Asia is an interesting, colorful description of how, personally enriched by his experiences in the East and by the introspection they induced, Mr. Taylor became an ardent and eloquent missionary for the concept of one world not only as a universal political goal but as the specific means of the western individual's personal psychological integration.
In a foreword Mr. Taylor acknowledges a special debt to three books: The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru, The Psychological Frontiers of Society by Abram Kardiner, and The Anatomy of Peace by Emery Reves. Without being in any way directly derivative, Richer by Asia is an effort to reconcile in a personal context the problems considered in these three books. Mr. Taylor firmly believes that the human species is threatened with extinction—'The moment is unique, the issue without parallel, the experience without precedent'; that the danger lies in group aggression which arises from 'a kind of morbid group personality,