Evening star., 1941-08-31
SpIendor and Shame

SpendoT and Shame
Bv Otto Zorek BobbS- Merrill Co., indianapolis.
Here are two by authors eab
NaA persecution both have
aiken up arms 10 fight against Catholic,
refugee his books and member of the
Volunteers which formed by the French gov
playwright and producer and refugee by reason Of
He soldier in the English Auxiliary Military
hatred of Nazsm makes itself pept0e in
each of the books.
begins with the
opening of the real war in May so HIS regiment was IN the lines IN
who wanted fight against Germany Nh Habe mentions among his
fed from ani-sentism in
Survivor We're Captured
poglot officers moved meet the
advancing resistance offered
caught the the islands resistance as Gen Wey
gand later described the % divisions which were surrounded by the Nazs
such them survived taken prisoner Mr. Habe
OF these He was sent TO prison camp where concng MS German
4a my es sinra os ~ ] Ms scc sS % hee @ anneuing
food vivid books tremendously
have been written straight OF his hearts blood
ana It qet 6u terribly bi the SUBJECT hs French military
epuboan army heads roops we're sent INTO tb lines vbo m gums
ooe we're ordered to lead men to distant points we're unable to-
find The morale Of the soldiers studiOuy weakened by the
ded not by spies but by her own military commanders
The foreign volunteers under these conditions fought bave
holding
to fall back utterly dsmayd the loyal officers to whom Mr. Habe
high tribute They recognized it he by their supero
but Of hatred for democratic The generals
& n he paS ne says we're ERE Faseis Iny acTeo rec oene "ha @
all been said before but Mr. abe tells of the plain fighting
and of what meant to him in exhaustion blood death
in the smiling landscape of spngme France to srivel
tragedy
tells of the horrors of German prison and Mr. Habes
relation,
the record for those who have fear the vanted
efeminate sel-ndulgen
silk fine gloves and chocolate from
the They forbidden such
ton indeed through German officers ngvernabe appetite
for chocolate that Mr. be finally make his
aided avishlby French civilians who in giving the aid.
skd their lives but who heitated they understood
Germany finally fed to escape the prosecutions
which visited members of his hong the civilized world
He child the Kasers Reich where for school
d Pe me- ny m p 5 U 6 Of m M hs fheg was va the "ne e
gossip the royal household spread spendor
military parad Mr. zarek himself took traditional life
bough HIM he notice OF Max Rnard and @ that M tme @ on hs
lived in the world Of the stage writing and producing asoang
with the great figures of German dramatic life
pre-war DAYS certain influences which working under
are not e economic assurances OF Wncn one Gus
oar reads IN this connection They deeper psychological
Knew Hitler in His Munich Days
great surge of vitality in the arts
which Germans republican years Thomas
Mann Heinrich Mann zweg
Feuchwanger Bergner
wi on T Ht G @ I'm III & rao peroo ne ao heW Aooiph ler
than tn ms Mh b a sn & S @ @ man b was m n1hng 10TH worse
out with Hermann reports
power Germany on the
artists who had brought her credit before world
And when the conquest of Austria brought the frontier of the Reich
England
hories that he alien but victim of
cuon he enlisted Lord Readings Pioneer He
oath loyalty VI with the This King
England before out he found many who believed
legend of dual Gmanya good and enlightened people per-
peta md by evil governments to all such he makes this bitter
statement: The better Germany does exist His book
engage OF troubled history.