Evening star., 1938-04-17
WELLS IN HIS RESCUE ROLE
Two Books From His Industrious Pen Deal With Illness World
and Remedy Wilson in Public Life and Other
People in Current Books.

cal conduct. It begins with Mr.. Will
sons childhood and carries on to the
entrance Of the United States into the
World Wa. Its theme seems to be
that Mr.. Wilson, at the time he entered
public life, had not yet found a politi-
cal creed which satisfied him, but was
still In an undecided state Of mind,
having gone through a number of
phases in his political thinking without
having arrived at a philosophy that
seemed to him at once applicable to
the Nations needs and personally &C.
ceptable to his own ego: and that, on
being eroomed for the presidency, and
coming before the attention OF Col,
House. he shortly fell under the Tex
ans influence to such an extent that
his subsequent policies always reflected
the colonel's wishes. Col. House. ac-
cording to the author, was a yelled
revolutionary, whose aim was a com.
plete remaking Of the American plan
OF government. and the formation of
an international league.
The book, however, is not devoted
solely to an examination of Wilson's
conduct. but goes into the idea that
oehlnd our visible machinery of ad-
mlnlstration there has been since the
early years of the century a combina-
ton OF powerful forces working to
manipulate the Government to certain
ends. These forces, as described here,
are not the commonly painted powers
OF nnance. greedy and materialistic.
aiming only to secure governmental
approval OF unscrupulous profit taking.
lhey are, instead, group of tnterna-
tlonalists whose aim was to render the
capitaiistic system safe by preventing
war. and they included, according to
Col. Wise. such incompatible compan-
| IONS as bankers, socialists and paciflsts.
Ihelr leader he sees as Theodore Mar
ourg, their hacker as Andrew Carnegie
and their achievement the Peace Con-
ferences of The Hague.
The policies of Col. House are not
represented here as being out of SYM
pathy with those Of the International
lists. but the author makes 1t appear
that the Texan played lone hand. He
early aimed to bring about a league Of
nations. says the present book, but,
while keeping in touch with the Car
nlegie lnternationalist group, he pre-
1erred to use his influence on the
President as he individually saw fit.
Ih1s influence is here described plainly
| as toward dictatorship and abroea-
ton OF the Constitution For Wilson.
Col. Wise makes the case tnat ne was
lmbued with longing to achieve some
great thing and that Col House, by
playing in Machiavellian fashion on
this desire, was able to sway him as he
wished
The case is both fantastic and fasci-
mating. and although at times 1t is al
lowed to rest on somewhat circumstan-
tlal evidence, it IS made to hang to-
getner. Back of it, however. is a case
which rests on very substantial evi-
! dence, and that is the case against
invisible" government, the case
against the use of delegated constitu-
tional power for the service of the
personal isms Of the recipient Col
Wise plucks strongly on this string.
Unmistakably he calls attention to the
similarity of the drift in governmental
tehdencles today to that of Wilsonian
/ era. And he cites passages from Col
Houses novel, Philip Dru: Admins
traitor, wherein it is recommended
lhat the courts cease to have power
10 pass on the constitutionality of laws
ano That Judges be subject to forced
retirement after the age of 70. to show
tnat the influence of Wilson's silent
partner is not yet at an end.
This basic idea of the book is one
which well claim serious attention
from every one interested in preserving
democratic tradition in America and
concerned over any evidence of us,lr.
patlon OF the authority bestowed by
the electorate to serve other than con-
sututlonal ends. That eternal vigil
lance is the price of liberty has been
SAID. No book which keeps that vigi-
lance alive should fail of respect before
the public.
CONQUEST OF THE PAST. Nv
Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein
Boston: Houghton, Miflin Co.
THE author of this book is that
young German nobleman who, in
MS native land. acquired the nick
name OF "the Red Prince" and abroad
as well as at home, gained fame for he.
ing 1he last man to make public at
tack on Hitler in Germany after the
Fuenrer had come into power. Despite
tne nickname, however, he has never
peen Communist. No more was he
a pollucal royalist, though his book
jacket announces rather blatantly
that he is descendant of - en-
perors. Quite otherwise, as he an
nounces In this work. his life history.
he is a constitutional democrat, op-
posed alike to extremes of left and
right. To date, the rewards of his
democratic convictions have been
nothing more gratifying than banish-
ment from his homeland and the pub
lication Of his name on the Nazi list
of traitors.
He writes here the whole story of
his life. telling it with an immense
and earnest naivete, plainly impressed
with the wonder of the changes
through which he has lived and eager
10 make his readers share his amaze
ment. Born in 1906, he lived the life
OF an hereditary prince until after
the war, surrounded by affection.
galety and plenty. In South Germany.
Where much of his early existence was
spent, the people were unquestioninely
loyal, and doubt of the rightness of
his position never was raised. With
the war came physical hardships, lack
OF food and lack of money, but still the
solld1ty of the German order seemed
to stand. When the republic was in
stltuted. however, the older genera
ton of the family felt that the end of
all things had come. Young Hubertus
was trained to abhor the new democ.
racy with almost religious loathine.
The most significant part of the
book Is his story of how he became