Glacier County chief., 1940-08-09
WHO'S
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Featnes-WNU Servics.)
NEW York;. B. Priestly and
I ' the U. S. A. got along nicely to-
gether until his play, ''Time and the
Conveys" began to make troubls
Voice of England this NAV Nav. M
Takes lab at Our Priestiy went
Radio commenters metaphysic.i
time into fourth Intentional un-
reality. Perhaps because they had
long felt the urgency and reality Of
a newspaper deadline, the Ameri-
can dramatic critics didn't quite get
1t and scored the play as just $3.50
and maybe not even that. Mr..
Priestly said they were rude and
boorish about it and challenged not
only their time sense, but their sense
OF propriety and their fitness for
their jobs.
That must have gone deeply
under Mr.. Pfiestfy's skin, since,
as the "Voiee Of England'' ut .
moment when time, at any rate
seems to be real, he takes q
short-wave, short lab st radis
commentators in this csunfry.
He thinks that people who are
not prepared to tight anything,
anywhere" should mind their
manners and not belittle sthers
who can and win tight. While
that may not necessarily make
Time and the Conveys" q COED
play, 1t reveals Mr.. Priestly,
and no doubt England, n ready
70 meet all corners, and that
seems all to the good. Perhaps
when television comes, wen be
saying, "Smile when you say
that, pardner."
This reporter, having once talked
with Mr.. Priestly, can testify that
he has a nice smile. While his esti-
mate of our present or potential
belligerency may have been some
what tactlesS, in his novels and
magazine articles he has shown
much more sound discernment of
the American scene than the writ
lngs of certain other visiting Brit
ons, who kiss and run and there
after engage in long distance smear
ing. He, at any rate, said his say
while he was here.
Mr.. Priestly, As years old, took
honors in literature and history at
Cambridge, went to London from his
native Yorkshire and found the lit
erary ladder just an escalator.
His novel, 1.-THE Good Companions"
was his first big success. This read.
er thought there was deep insight
in his Midnight in the Desert"
written after his stay in Arizona,
with his family. In his routine
short-wave address, he stresses the
common cultural ties of England
and America, without being oily
about it and has seemed to this hear
er an effective special pleader. But
he does seem to look on our critics
as alien parachute-jumpers, or even
something less admirable.
THE professor who pieces out the
dinosaur from single bone has
distinct advantage over interpret
ers of world events. Nobody can
Jap War Minister LISP g1spu'e nun.
Bears q redther has just fin
On His Shoulder tshed reading
a magazine
article of 1884 about Lieut.. Gen. Eiki
TOTO of Japan, in which it is made
clear that he is typical of the head
strong army caste, sure to destroy
itself, and that quickly.
But here today is General Toto
named war minister in the new army
cabinet which seems bent on de-
stroying anybody or anything rather
than itself. In the short view, at
least, the dinosaurs of totalitarian-
ism are subject to laboratory obser.
vation-but only in the short view.
close to deadline.
Little is known about General
TOTO in this country, but avail
able data indicate that his ri.e
to power win not be reassurine
to those who look for peaceful.
pleasant solutions Of world dis
cord. His betes noir are the
U. s. A. and Russia.
Like Pericles Of Greece, he Cd
vanced himself by kicking up war
scares. He agrees with the doc
trine OF Adolf Hitler, expounded =
"Mein Kampf," that an Alliance
are push-overs and that the ouly
tough and durable nation II the cna
that stands alone. He u smart.
hard-boiled. resourceful and con.
temptuous Of theories. sentimsnts.
and negotiations. He b a IN m
Reconstructed feudal family, and -
ben n tn army afnca ~ -.