Evening star., 1936-09-02
NEW BOOKS
AT RANDOM
BY MARGARET GERMOND.
FROM THE SOUTH SEAS TO HITLER.
BY Ivy Carl. New York: E. p. Dutton
& co.

MY name is Ivy Carl" reads the
opening sentence OF this oddly fascinat-
ing book, land am the English daugh-
ter of Germany's Mystery Man No. /;
war child, product Of one of the strang-
est marriages imaginable that a world
afiame ever brought about. Child I am
OF an EnglishWoman, and the man whom
London during the war years called
Germany's Master Spy; child of the
dreaded man whom Britain was search
Ing for In vain; Of the man who escaped
the Salvo OF firing party in the Tower.
mo reproach whatsoever can be di-
rected at my mother. She saw in my
father Count Marcel Jaggi, q Belgian
ofncer, in which role he was introduced
| to her. She had no idea that she was
face to face with the Great Spy. For
some long time after her Scottish mar
riage my mother continued to see him
| as Belgian count. 1t was not until
| later that revelation of his real identity
| came.
For child such as I am 1t is not
surprising that mystery surrounds the
house In which I was born. My parents
had contracted marriage in April, 1915,
| in small Scottish village, and I was
born on January 26. 1917, in Althorne,
house of the mother of the sailor, Jack
Borne. who served on the cruiser Hamp-
shire as leading signalman. The cruiser
sank near the Orkneys in the Atlantic
| in mysterious manner on June S, 1916
| carrying down with it Lord Kitchener
| and his staff and all hands"
In the circumstances of this peculiar
| human drama in a blood -drenched world
| it is no wonder that the first born of so
| strange marriage has a genuine story
| to tell. That she has the ability to tell
| 1t simply and directly Is a matter for
which she merits warm-hearted con-
gratulations.
Immediately following the chapter in
which the author introduces herself, she
| proceeds to recount the nomadic exist
ence which fate decreed should be her
lot for at least the first twenty years Of
| her life. The arrest of her father,
when she was only year and half old,
brought to an end the quiet. If precari
| Gus, domestic entity. With Scotland
| Yard at his heels, the famous spy sue
| cessfully rushed his small family to
safely on an island off the west coast
| of England. and shortly thereafter it
was deemed expedient to send little Miss
IVY W INuilutl, III tIlc OOutn OedS, 10 i've
| with an aunt and uncle until the family
might, If ever be reunited in the secur-
| ity Of peace. Thus began a globe-trot-
ting career which carried the author from
| England to the South Seas and from
there to Honolulu, Yokohama, Osaga,
Buenos Aires, Tangier, Malaga, Ham
burg. Munich. Berlin and many other
places.
rta lref l.n1R - L1I l.. u
biography of a little wanderer who by
the time she was eleven years old had
travelled over nearly half the world, and
is replete with impressions and observa-
tions. as well as experiences. The Sec
ond half Of the volume deals with Ger
many under the dictatorship of Adolf
Hitler. 1t is not easy to fool an intelli-
gent young girl whose practical as we'll
as formal education has been acquired
through experiences in association with
the peoples of half the globe. When the
Nazis seized control of Germany Miss
Carl was attending school in Munich.
Though only sixteen, the fantastic pattern
of her life had developed a maturity
Of thought far beyond her years and
endowed her with keen sense of judg-
ment of men and of the principles of
politics and government which they
champion. From the inside she here
tells the story of the German people
under the yoke of Hitlerism, and with
direct and fearless analysis unclosets the
gaunt skeleton to which O once proud
race has been reduced.
Not from hereSay and gossip and tea
table conversations has the material
which has gone into these pages been
gathered. What have told here" says
Miss Carl, II have lived and suffered
with the German people"
ME. DETECTIVE. BY Leslie T. White.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Some day, it is to be hoped, the
American people will be awakened to full
realization of the fact that the RESPONSE
bility for the wholesale business of crime
in this country rests directly upon them
and not upon the institutions of law,
order and justice as they now function.
1t is not to the credit of the American
people that they take their crime as
merely one of the incidental troubles of
an overlarge and populous country. Can
1t be that the public has become so in
different that it does not even care
whether law prevails or whether the
perpetrators and accomplices of crime
are brought to book?
In crime and mystery fiction the mur-
derers, gangSters, thieves, spies or plot
ters are hunted to earth. If 1t were
not for the thrill of the hunt such stories
would have no readers. But in the mat
ter of actual crime, how long does even
sensational case hold the interest of
the public or result in q definite de-
mand for justice?
Large cities and q number Of States
in this country have from time to time
been the scene of investigations, trials
and convictions in so-called clean-ups
Of criminals and of crooked of1icials. New
regimes are instituted and the people
settle down to normal routine and forget
to keep vigilant eye upon administers
tion affairs. Sometimes such house.
cleaning lasts. More often it does not.
California, as notable for its crimes
as for its climate, is case in point, and
1t was the scene of the labors of Leslie
T. White, detective in the Bureau of In
vestigation of the district attorneys Of
fice Of Los Angeles County. After a
number of years of work as an officer
of the law in one capacity or another,
Mr.. White was appointed to the above
mentioned position in 1928. He learned
in the first days Of his apprenticeship as
a ranger on the estate of some wealthy
men that honesty not only was not ex-
pected, but was not wanted by his
employers. Still believing however in