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dlans who wore trousers would be
allowed to use the road" To this,
Mr.. Shridharani adds gently: Now
Indians have done without pants for
at least 5000 years. = 1" If it were
a question OF their being invited to
Westerner's home or to some cere-
mony. dress restrictions would have
been understandable. But when one
is fleeing for his very life, it is
absurd to tell him what to wear"
He vlsualizes new. free India
as matter of course, and says that
the choice is between Nehru and
Bose for the leadership. 1t will be a
democratic government and. to-
3ether with democratic China. will
work for the enlightenment of the
East and combat Japan's totalitar-
ian doctrines. Of Gandhi, he saws
that the British engaged in a smear
campaign to make the Mahatma
seem fifth columnist and pro-Jap-
anese, mostly for the effect on
Americans. He politely offers that
no Indian would believe Winston
Churchill under any circumstances
and regrets that the once liberal
Sir Stafford Cripps has become a
reactionary under Churchills in
Huence. The book is serious. but
dehghtfully written, and certainly
should be regarded as an important
contribution to Anglo Indian ntera-
ture at the present moment.
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Angel Mo- and Her Son Roland Hoyes
BIZ MdcKinleu Helm. little.


In this book MacKmey Helm forward
enothe autobogapher The
the Negro Haves
himself were telling It, 1t is the first
grammatialy and also in the first spiritually.
Roland Hayes He the
class Whch our society included
hanbreed Indian
into slavery His father could write This
class with formal
Voice culture heard Printed music outside
held piece of his hands
himself before
different from the voices his neighbors
in the Negro way-With instructive
When white a
graph record of Carsos decided that
existence education would
white musicians He
until he had completed the
with like Forgotten and The
forget the music that him.
Through hardship
himself
indispensable And the
incorporate interpreter OF Negro
full circle to the OF childhood
musical people There incidents acclaim
route He sang for their maies of Britain
OF the King of Spain Demonrab
could fill Carnegie Hall a
Roland mother,
family
in his life For long time him dis
approved of his musical ambitions worldly
She refused from her
support herself She took washing When called
after the command performance would ironing
talk them replied Roland
he cabled her their maes compliments
and give credit where criticized his dcon She
OF the h to discern that his Negro Finally
she rented When the realization of his genius
oaid, Son. you are the continuation of me-"
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Warning to the West
By KriShndldl Shridhdr,

6y hf1SHnQldL Shr1dhdrdn7.
Duel, Sloan & Pearce.J
Krishnalal Shridharani is one of
the few Orientals who can make an
Oriental point of view sensible in
English. His former book, NV In
dia, My America" was the state
ment of Hindu's feeling about the
meeting of East and West, and was
matter-of-fact, perfectly reasonable
from the point of view of, say. Iowa
and amusingly written. Mr.. Shrid-
harani now writes of a less per-
sonal and much more important
matter-the future of his country
AS influenced by the war. He is
still comprehensive and still a
persuasive writer.
He holds that England never had
right in India in the first place.
that the low level of the Indian
masses is abundant testimony thai
England,s $50 Indian years have
not been spent in bringing better
ways OF lie 10 that country, and
that, since the opening of the war,
England, by violence, bad faith and
oppression, has forfeited whatever
remnants of respect might have
been felt for her. So there is
nothing to it, as he sees it. except
that England must go. Indeed, in
his view, this is so self-evident as to
be virtually accomplished. "The
Saxon Fell at Singapore" is the head
of one of his chapters.
He makes a good case for his
point Of view. He repeats the story
already widely told, of how, on the
retreat from Burma. the British
reserved the single existing road for
white people, and 'the Asians who
were making the 1,200-mile trek on
foot or in bullock carts were for
hidden to use it. When complaints
reached the ears of Nehru," he con-
tinues, "he went to the spot to in
vestigate. Thereupon, the
British authorities modified their
policy and declared that those In
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Crescent Carnival
By Frances Parkinson Keues.
Julian MeSSner.

By Frances Parkinson KeyeS.
Julian MesSner.J
Here is book of sheer romance.
Mrs. Keyes, in love with New Or
leans, has made it the hero, heroine
and villain of her story. And it's a
good story.
The gaiety of the Crescent City,
lis foreign atmosphere, its local
politics, its society, its complicated
family relations and rivalries, its
corruption. its Righteousness, its
scandals, its brilliancy-all from the
1905 to the present-are part OF
the story. And, of course, Ole Man
River plays his role.
The story has as it's chief char
acters three generations of "jeune
Americains, whose lives are timed
with three generations that pro-
duced two carnival queens. Andrew
Breckenridge, who came from an
American place called Kentucky
his son, Breck. and Breck's son,
Drew, are the chief masculine
characters.
Their contemporaries are Estelle
Lenoir. carnival queen al tne first
Pacif1ci ball; Marie Celeste, who
found life bitter and consolation in
the church: Stella Fontaine. Estelle's
granddaughter, who, after half a
century, succeeded her grandmother
on a carnival throne.
A fourth feminine character.
around whose activities and life the
story is spun, is Patty Forrestal.
but, for some reason, she is not so
vivid as the others.
The chief characters are well
drawn, given life and become famil-
lar people. The city itself is made
familiar place
But Mrs Keyes has taken 807
pages to tell story that could have
been told as we'll in half that space
or less. There are not lines, but
pages, possibly chapters. that could
be omitted without hampering this
enthusiastic and colorful story OF a
city that is acknowledged one of
Americas three best fiction settings.
1t is recommended heartily, but not
for those who cannot put down a
book once it is started.
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This was his Angel Mo-. He has
gone back now to the little Georgia
farm where she spent her youth
and he makes his home there. When
he arrived he found the current de-
scendants of his family's white
owners living in poverty. He offered
them charity. He set his home
aside for the assistance of talented
young Negroes. He called it Angel
Mo Farm.
More than that, he made his
music vindication. His great
grandfather, who was beaten to
death for assembling slaves for re-
ligious service, made a song of sor-
row for the sufferings OF Jesus. In
Roland'S heaven-reaching tenor.
that song has moved hundreds of
thousands of white men to chas-
tened tears. 1t is hard to imagine
a career more closely tied into the
fabric of American history and
progress. The self -effacement with
which MacKinley Helm tells it here
is art brought to its service.
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For Permanent Victory
By MelUin M. Johnson. jr.
and Charles T. HaUen. (Wil-
linn MOrro7r

By Meluin NJ. Johnson, jr.,
and Charles T. HaUen. will
liam MorroU.)
During the past several years, we
have frequently heard America
called the Arsenal of Democracy,
and now Melvin M. johnson, jr., a
captain in the Marine Corps Re
serves, and Charles T. Haven put
before us the case for an American
arsenal OF peace. which, We under
stand, is to be brought about by the
United States out-arming any other
nation in the world and remaining
in that state of belligerent prepara-
ton.
Capt. johnson and Mr.. Haven
point out that the United States has
entered all of her past armed con-
f1icts (they list Ill If you count all
the Indian wars) unprepared, and
advance the theory that. technical
advances being what they are, we
may not have an opportunity to pre-
pare for the next one, but may find
ourselves beaten before the sound of
the first bugle.
The authors point out that Amer
leans have always been a clever and
ingenious race and recall that many
implements of modern warfare were
first invented in the United States,
only to be perfected and used later
by Europeans. This situation must
be remedied. they insist, unless the
United States is to find herself one
day PROSTATE before an invincible
enemy.
Americas state of unpreparedness
upon her entry into past wars is now
part of history, and cannot at this
time influence future policy. If this
war ends in another Versailles, then
We may we'll take to heart the advice
Capt. johnson and Mr.. Haven give
us, but throughout the world today
there is the hope that from this
conflict may come an enduring
peace In which science will be used
for the Advancement Of man and not
his destruction.
JAAuB BIRo1U1uD.
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known as the One Man Army of
Bataan, who is now reported a
prisoner Of the Japanese. Then
1t. Hewitt T. Wheless, 1t John D.
Buckley, 1t. Edward O'Hare, Gen.
Doolittle, Maj. Devereaux Col. Buzz
Wagner, Capt. Colin P. Kelly, jr.
and on and on. Heroes of the Army.
Navy, Marines. Army Nurse Corps,
Coast Guard, merchant marine are
there. At times Mr.. Holbrook seems
to indulge in little too much
dramatizing of facts which need
little or no establishment, but the
interest is kept up.
For his material the author drew
from the reports Of the public relS-
tions departments of the armed
services. personal interviews and the
dispatches of war correspondents.
He devotes one chapter to a helpful
explanation of Army and Navy dec
orations and what they mean.
JOHN H. Cassidy, JR.
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Mr.. w. and !


This the
accompanied a England
continent The yellowed
found college girl home for
OF the penal belongings of gandaun
publisher friend recognized
to have published
WeberS fame had preceded
rousng welcome wherever
Victoria and later tie
Inc tour consumed months did
existing relations between the
Mrs Webster with all
the round OF parties
accepts ana decline for cannot stand this she
at Mrs Webster
and accordingly human and personal view
france and particularly England
history. ' 'e p'"'e "a
The book is aacvy recommended as an excellent
gut BOOK not only for students unusual
volumes. MALCOLM 1AMpor W ME- IIuuai
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More About Air PO1Uer
William Bradford Huie Offers
His Plan for Defeating Axis
The Fight for Air Power
By William Bradford HUE.

WtAtd7n BT1dTOrd B. FtScherJ
recognition
aipane strategic reviewed
recent months be but in detail Mr. HUE himself
refers three preceding subject them
important basic reading They Maj Alexander de
Victory Through william
Germany the biography of Gen. Mitchell Emile and
OF these he Maj de sevky Mr. zf
feasible strategy and Mr. Gauvreau and Cohen interpret the
figure Billy purposes
coincide with Of those OF the earlier writer's though they
He investigates first the obstrucionis with which the minded
American officer has had deal
since Pearl Habor and third he proposes his own plan OF
he deals with technical questions
important air literature of the
pursuit purpose
Cured when the Army ordered mall
fantasy the first casualties
then into the report of
assent though appended
objection Next he considers the Howell which, describes
striking force the
badly weakened the Baker which preceded by months
All this was as recent as 1885
From there of
Force with the Army and Navy modern planes and to allowed
men, but such the opposition with which
that Mr. HUE puts it, "on that
had 10 modern but poorly equipped bombardment
aviation confined to theory
scattered pursuit pfy
nations despite
position
mate OF needed planes cut by the politicians
The head Of the opposition view
Josephus Daniels greatest
hatred was Gen. Mitchell He reports that
the end that might viewpoint" and the
major came to Washington with high
him he discovered that instead
talking talk Harry Hopkns
So all added up Pearl Harbor Huies opinion
disaster he
men of vision knowledge
or our poPear Harbor development thinks
The Flying Fortress he
plans for bringing Germany
The secret planes planes and planes
amlnded Army and Navy officers at long last
their count1ys salvation NC. R.
Evening star., 1942-12-20
The Mediterranean Front
By Iva I. Syiff,
Librarian, Northeastern Branch, Public Library

Front" When Gen. Auchinleck be-
came commander in chief in the
Middle East in July, 1941, Russell
Hill cabled back to the New York
Herald Tribune stirring accounts of
the 9th Army in conflict with Rom
mels Afrika Korps, and these are
now published in Desert War" The
significant title, Retreat to Vic
tory" was chosen by Allen Niche
for his book covering Middle East
campaigns to the summer of 1912.
Travel books of West and North
Africa are valuable also. Ben l..
Burmans Miracle on the Congo
and Emil Lengyel's "Dakar- Outpost
OF Two Hemispheres," Harry Foster S
"Vagabond in Barbary," Leland
Halls "Salah and His American, -
II. V. Mortons Middle East-a
Record of Travel in the Countries
of Egypt, Palestine. Iraq, Turkey and
Greece" are of especial interest. Fly
ing adventures along the West
African coast and desert are re-
counted dramatically in Listen!
The Wind" by Anne Lindbergh,
and Wind, Sand and Stars by
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
At the eastern end of the Mediter-
raEean front the two maritime high
Ways-the Suez Canal and the
Straits of the Dardanelles-have
military and economic Importance
which has involved both in a web
of international diplomacy for nearly
a century. Andre Siegfricds "Suez
and Panama" and Turkey ct the
Straits by Profs. ShotWell and
Deak, acquaint the reader with the
problem. Much depends on neutral
Turkeys standing guard at the
Bosporus against German encroach-
ments; its strategic position and his
tory are set forth in Emil Lengyels
Turkey -
Evening star., 1942-12-20

Civil War days, in the big business
era. in the World War and now.
They conclude that the idea of civil
ization embraces a conception of
history as a struggle of human
beings in the world for individual
and social perfection, that the so
cial principle" is inherent in it. that
it "combats pessimism" and excludes
total determinism.' though pre-
dieting partial determinism, such
as an irreversible and irrevocable
historical heritage. and a partially
open and dynamic world in which
creative intelligence can and does
work"
There are nearly TOO pages in the
volume to prove these conclusions
which seems, somehow, like a very
great deal OF proof.
Evening star., 1942-12-20
The Quiet Lady
By Norman Collins. Il

Oy NOIULuU COltluS. fHuTpeT.) j
This is an excellent example OF
the completely romantic novel. Ro-
mantle novels, as We get them now
fall into two general classes. There
is the blood d-and-thunder and there
Is also the flow of-emotion.
The blood -and-thunder piece Is
usually built about the adventures OF
hero, handsome demon who sins
and loves tremendous deal without
any OF the objects of his SHINING
and loving ever coming into even
small degree of life. The flow of
emotion, on the other hand, is con-
centrated solely on heroine. Pri-
marily, she will love; quite probably
fashions being what they are at the
moment, she will also sin bit. But
her big business is to fix her heart
steadfastly on lover and then yearn
unremittingly.
A striking difference between these
two types is that the heroes, though
they may have to make some minor
retrlbution for their naughtiness,
generally have high old time
while the heroines, on the contrary
lead melancholy lives and endure a
great deal of suffering and persecu-
ton. Anybody who wants to 90
psychological on the subject from
this point on is free to do so. The
reviewer has merely mentioned the
gross facts in evidence.
FloW-of emotion is the genre OF
this piece by Norman Collins, and il
conforms to type perfectly. 1t has
a heroine, and that heroine loves
sins and suffers with the most de-
llghtful regularity. Mr.. Collins, fol-
his part, has a light touch and some
sophistication, and he brings his
book off, in all it's predictability
without committing a single in
stance Of bathos. You can do a good
deal worse than read it if you are in
an escapist frame of mind.
1t is costume piece. It's setting
is France before, during and after
the Franco -Prussian War. The hero
inc is charming young German OF
good birth whose dreams of life
demand high romance. Impatient
Of her solid prosaic home. she lima :
gines herself in love with her vapid
young French cousin. runs off tc
Paris to visit him and is caught in
the foreign city in the war. Then
her adventures begin.
She has the beauty of a femme
fatale and the mind of school girl
The cousin is duly killed. leaving her
protectorless, and she forthwith falls
into the hands of a succession OF
lovers, some chivalrous. some das-
tardly. She is the wife of a petit
bourgeois hotel-keeper and the mis-
tress of a war profiteer. She has a
baby and goes into a convent She
emerges to take humble job in the
home of an English country family
and the son and heir promptly falls
in love with her, whereupon she is
! ANONYMOUSLY dismissed as a bag
gage. when will English country
families learnO Bye-and-bye. she
gets ground under her feet in the
form of that serviceable fictional
character, the honorable middle
aged British officer with a limp who
has retired on half-pay. And SO
everything Is all right.
The book has a great deal OF
charm To read it is like unex-
pectedly finding a lace valentine.
Evening star., 1942-12-20

The presence of American armies
on the North African front has
brought to the Public Library many
questions about the Mediterranean
theater of war. Why have great ma
tlons always sought to control this
area? What types of people and
what sort Of land are our men
learning to know intimately? What
are the physical conditions under
which they are fighting? These and
other similar questions are answered
in books obtainable at the Central
Library, Eighth and K streets NV,
and most of its branches.
Mediterranean coastal history,
from the legendary voyages of
Odysseus to the defeat of italian
imperial ambitions in 1941, is pre-
sented in Emil Ludwig's The
Mediterranean: Saga of Sea"
During the last decade the diplo-
matte maneuvers of the leading
powers to preserve peace and un-
fettered sea routes, opposing Mus
oOAAiAA . SAlSIIoi
Mare Nostrum," are interpreted by
Elizabeth Monroe in The Mediter-
ranean in Politics" A brief account
Of these rivalries, with a summary
of operations in Africa since 1889
is given in Background of Our
War" the text prepared for newly
inducted soldiers by the War De-
partment.
The War in the Desert: the Bat
tie for Africa by Raoul Aghion. an
attache at the French Legation in
Cairo in 1899, reviews the military
history of Egypt and the western
desert from the ancient pharaohs to
Gen. Wavells spring campaign CT
l94l. Tribute is paid to Wavell for
his conduct Of the first phase of the
war by Alan Moorehead of the Lon
don Times in The Mediterranean
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Compiled from information obtained in WASHINGTON by
The Star and in Neu York San
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FICTION.
Signed With Their Honor, by Aldridge
Crescent Carnival, by Frances Parkinson Keyes.
The Song Of Bernadette, by Werfel
The Prodigal Women, by Nancy Hale
The Robe by Lloyd c. Douglas
NON-FICTION.
See Here, Pvt. Hargrove, by Marion Hargrove.
Last Train From Berlin, by Howard T. Smith.
They Were Expendable by w. L. White.
Time for Greatness, by Herbert Agar
From suez to Singapore, by Cecil Brown.
Evening star., 1942-12-20
Under Ny Elm
By DaDid Grayson. Doubleday, Doran.)

The placid reflections observations
son are pleasure to read For DR. crayson made for himself full life
that
peaceful existence that lies the
the reader Of his latest book something his
of life.
Farmer Philosopher Graysons
thing slowly The millions Of modern spend
their time rushing from place the the
thinking OF how they faster will probably
Mr. raysons philosophy That Is they
ns place To the few who hold the eternal rush Of the da
his book will react like retreat
he is fond. "
Under My Elm" rambling composition and theme
could not otherwise and still retain its charm
rayson bought moderately large New England
iew years hasy impatient funng about suddenly discovered
would
deliberately
tween his responsibilities professional
owy onion nourhed them
tremendous financial Spiritually
And the with his which
yoon In the honeybee Mr. rason sawand still social
the oderness OF which puts civilization
Never the scientist authority
ected books which
he fishing he talked with
the down as it writing
things that acquire
to notice and understand David Grayson that
unonsnl J. W. STEPP
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7 he Command of the Air

By Gtuio Douhet. Translated BY Dino
McCannJ
Here at last an English translation of the
evangels
ne set the pace for the modern De seerky Like De
ouh Is an air enthusiast
weapon Lead him
Midway
foe the countless pondnes
the
block busters dropped by the
This work brings together Douhets
he Probable Aspects of the War the
ton and The War of 19"
style but
claly
Douhet
the Gen Bolat, whose
Cinderella of the family 1t Cinderella
ls4o certainly and Germany the
1t was supreme on the land-moved swiftly
L have maintained. continue to
field of action
The in
the battle there has book and
then debate whether Douet would
controversy Is stocked
Is no1nng BLAIR
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The American Spirit
By Charles and Mary Beard

By Charles and Mary Beard.
fMdcmilldn)
Thistle fourth volume in the
Boards Rise of American Civili7a-
tion" series-is a study of the
concept Of civilization as it has
existed IN our country from the
days of the Founding Fathers to
the present. The authors have ex-
amined all writings on the subject
and have included in their volume
passages from those which they feel
to have been pertinent.
First. in a preliminary manner,
they examine civilization as q world
concept and center Of interest" 4"
Then they examine 1t as 1t has
been in the various periods of our
own history-in the early days Of
the Republic. In the expanding Pc
Rod Of tho early 10th century, In
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The Mediterranean
By Emil LudWiq. (WhittleSeu HouSa !

TWNltIleSey
LuoWg always
oographes he wrote rather than has done
again ou on much larger scale In this
vidu sea replaces stream work follows
some chronological ORDER history
ort Oh tapestry The author far from
IN non-Lalns Dae
TO Perhaps would
shores OF the inland for the
at more esurey through the gories
and Rome or which he has somewhat
never gets that dizzy
fast for him. e "
Mr. Ludwig interesting device advance
Before each section ne has lighthouse keeper
lsano French
section The lighthouse drifts
too far off the his title to
In that history does itself
at point his volume to the present
moment the reader will find interesting
occasion for instance
Iouon or when the German babaans their shields
tka invaded Greece OTTENBERG
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-30

by one the performers went down
the ladder and then dropped 10
feet INTO the arms of waiting
sailors who were helping IN the
rescue work. Then Pierce leaped
TO safety.
The chorus girls were saved
through the presence of mind Of
Jackie McGregor. their captain.
who led one group through choking
smoke 10 a window on the second
floor. She also directed frcmen
TO the second floor dressing room
where a number of the girls were
quaillng with fear.
Bunny Leslie. the clubs cisaret
girl was among those listed as
missing
More than a score of Catholic
priests FASTENED 10 tho scene and
administered the last rites 10 the
victims aS they were carried from
the building
Two garages directly across tho
street were used aS emergency
hospitals Dead and injured were
placed in long rows IN both build
trrrA