This is from the front page of the Topeka Journal. It includes a picture of Dr. Maxwell. I wish I had a date, I found the clipping in my grandmother's things after her death.

"The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a world-wide organization, has adopted the book "The Soviet State," written by Prof. Bertram W. Maxwell, Ph.D., of the Washburn college history and political science department, as its official textbook in its peace councils throughout the world, it was announced today.

The announcement comes as a signal honor of Professor Maxwell, who is already widely known as a speaker and authority on political science and international relations. The book was published last January by Steves & Wayburn, publishers of Topeka.

Six hundred copies of the book were ordered by the Carnegie Endowment. It will be used all over the world. Already the book had attracted world-wide interest, for copies of it have been ordered from Japan, England, France, and several other countries. According to records of the Topeka post office, a record number of the books have been sent thru the office for foreign countries.

Professor Maxwell first began collecting material for the book in 1929, when he spent several months in Russia. He worked on it continually since his return to the college, and it came out in final form in January.

According to the preface of the book, "this study is an attempt to describe the structure of the Bolshevik government and to portray the relationship of the citizen to the state in the Soviet Union ... The writer flatters himself that he has approached this study objectively, has divested himself of ideological bias, and has produced an impartial representation of political, social, and legal conditions in Russia today."

The author has taught at Washburn for the last ten years. He is eagerly sought as a speaker on political and social science subjects."