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Evening star., 1943-06-06
A STRANGER and Afraid
BIZ Michael Hardt. (Bobl

By Michael Hdrdt. (BoboS-
MerriN.)
Here is another example of the
spy story which makes effective
propaganda for the American way
of life by coloring the enemy to
suit the demands Of the readers Of
thrillers. Make the hero refugee
sent back to organize his own coun-
try's underground, and you have the
makings of frst-class slice Of
propaganda, sugar coated with
thrills.
Count Florian Waldegg, who fees
his native Vienna, becomes pri-
vate in the American Army. He is
summoned one day by his colonel,
who proposes that he return to
Vienna. The young Austrian points
out that he was well-known in
Vienna and couldn't escape detec-
ton, but his protests are waved
away. Plastic surgery makes him
unrecognizable, and fake auto
mobile accident wipes out his iden-
tity. He is sent to Libya, smuggled
into a camp for German prisoners
and escapes" with a shoulder
wound carefully administered by the
realistic British. In Germany, he
becomes a hero, is sent to officers
school and is hailed for "inventing'
bomb which the Americans, who
told him about it, had already found
wouldn't work He returns to his
old home in Vienna as adjutant to
the commanding general. From
there on, the pace quickens. The
bomb, it turns out, will work. The
plans must be stolen and sent back
to America. The climax comes as
Florian figures a way to steal the
plans, destroy segment of the Ger
man technical staff and aid the es-
cape of a British aircraft expert.
The story is rarely less than in
credible. but it is always exciting.
Aside from the plot, some of the
best bits of writing are Florian S
reactions to the growing pile of evi-
dence that convinces him that the
enemy must be destroyed, even il
the enemy's own methods must be
used in the destruction.
Evening star., 1943-06-06

OF travel. WaShingtonianS are for
tunately located for such plans, since
all the surrounding States are we'll
suited for walking tours, cycling or
getting back to the farm. Mr.. Nix
on, in American Vacations" has a
great number of camping and hik-
ing suggestions and an excellent
chapter on the American youth hos
tells. If you are newcomer to
the East, moreover. you may want
to take this chance to see something
of these nearby States. For a good
introduction to them you could read
Hubert Footner's maryland and
the Eastern Shore" or Virginia
Moore,s entertaining "Vlrginia Is a
State of Mind or one of Cornelius
Weygandt's books about Pennsylva-
nia-"The Blue Hills" for example,
or The Dutch Country"
If you prefer a somewhat less
strenuous vacation, why not con-
slider a trip down to Williamsburg?
Hildegarde HaWthorne's civilians
burg, Old and New" or the photo
graphs in Williamsburg, Virginia"
will tell you what to expect and
make you eager to see more. Vlr-
ginia Beach is another good des-
tination not too far from Washing
ten. In "l01 American Vacations"
you will find routes, hotels and
expenses listed for you
Or, if you haven't been there be-
fore, try New York City-but don't
travel on week ends. We know it's
hot. but SO is Washington, and it
isn't far from one air-cooled shop,
theater, or what-have-you to an
other. You will find plenty of guide
books to the city in any of the
public libraries, but for the Govern
ment girl planning a New York trip
Marjorie Hills New York, Fair
or No Fair is far and away the best.
incidentally, if you plan to catch
up on your reading this summer
ask about the Public Library's vaca-
tion privileges. You can get a time
extension on 10 books to take along
with you.
The books mentioned are available
at the Central Library, Eighth and
K streets NV, or through any of
the l3 neighborhood branch IL
! DrarieS.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
For the Mystery Fans
Brief ReUieDS of Curr,

6T1eJ heOae2DS OF CurfenL
Detective Fiction.
Having Wonderful Crime, by Craig
Rice (Simon & Schuster)-Black-
mail and embezzlement in New York
City resulting in rather dreadful
murders. Solved by out-of-town
sleuth. Lively.
They Deal in Death, by Robert
Terran (Simon g. Schuster)-Nazi
spying in New York. Average.
Trail Beyond the Rockies, by
Maristan Chapman (Appleton- Cen
tury)-Three young girls solve mys-
terry Of disappearance on an Arizona
ranch. For young people
Up Jumped the Devil, by Cleve F.
Adams CReynal & Hitchcock)-Be-
gins with queer jewel robbery and
goes on to assorted murders, the
hero being the sleuth. Average.
Somebody at the Door, by Ray
mond Postgate (Knopf)-An elderly
gentleman with young wife comes
to sudden end. Psychological
solution. $3.50.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Grandmother Drives South
By Constance Jordan Henleu

Sy constance JOTddn Henleu.
(Putnam'S.)
At an age when most people are
content to sit back in their rocking
chairs and take life as it comes,
Constance Jordan Henley set out to
explore South America for herself
by motor. Taking along her young
nephew for company, she drove her
own station wagon through 16 Latin
American countries in tour lasting
20 months. For all her nearly 60
years, she climbed mountains on
foot and on horseback, drove over
roads which she had been told were
impossible to pass, slept out in the
open air and mingled with and
visited the homes OF the natives.
Mrs. Henley emerged unscathed
from this rugged adventure, and
has written an account of her many
experiences, Illustrating her book
with some excellent photographs
taken during the trip
The book is admittedly an effort
to promote public interest in the use
of the American highway,
which, according to the author, is
now about 80 per cent completed.
Mrs. Henley provides rose-colored
glasses for her readers in picturing
our Southern neighbors and appar-
emily Withholds emphasis from any
unpleasant features which she might
have encountered.
Those who are ardent travel fans
undoubtedly will revel in this book
Those who are not, however, prob
ably will find the detailed scenic de-
scriptionS and extensive discussion
of road conditions rather dull.
HARRIET GRIFFITHS.
Evening star., 1943-06-06

Among the problems of wartime
living the Washington war worker
also has the problem of planning
a suitable summer vacation. 1t
takes planning to use profitably
those two weeks, or one week, or
maybe only a couple of week ends,
when you don't want to use trains
or buses for any long distance and
can't take your car. Some of the
books mentioned here may help you
to have vacation of fun and
pleasure or rest, If that is what you
are seeking
If you have no ideas at all to
start with look into two books
written by Horace Coon, 100 Va
cations" and "101 American Vaca-
tions.' These will plan your time,
budget your money from s25 up), j.,
map your route and do everything
but pack your bag for you Mr..
Coon has many excellent sugges-
tions for Washington and vicinity,
most of them still feasible in spite
Of wartime changes.
Two other vacation planning
books worth investigating are THE
Vacation Guide" by Robert Spiers
Benjamin, and Larry Nixon's
American Vacations" Mr.. Nixon's
book, in particular, has a number
OF ideas for mixers, campers, cyclists,
fishermen and canoeists which
should merit special attention from
gasoline-restricted vacationers.
For entertainment, as well as for
a novel suggestion for a summer
trip, you might read James and Mar
garet CaWley's Exploring the Little
Rivers of New Jersey" The authors
have canoed along all the navigable
rivers of their State and brought
back many fine photographs to il
lustrate their book, and in addition
to charming descriptions of their
cruising, they suggest a number of
ways in which their methods of eX-
ploration could be applied to your
own neighborhood Cyclists and
mixers, too, will find some valuable
tips In this book
The most practical vacations. in
fact, for this particular summer
seem obviously enough those out
door ones which require minimum
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Journey Among Warriors

By EDe Curie. doubleday,
DOrdn.)
Global war in terms OF the men
who are fighting it makes a warm
human document of this book
by Miss Curie, woman who
obviously suffered immeasurably
when her beloved France fell, who
experienced the "blitz" on England,
who braced herself with a respite
in the United States and then set
out on a worldwide jaunt to see
frst-hand what people everywhere
are doing to kill the Axis behemoth.
Her journey took her to five
separate centers of the war effort
The talented daughter Of mother
and father who were great scientists,
she found her name to be her best
passport. If this made for special
privileges, she is the first to admit
it. But, nevertheless, she got to
places where she needed to get,
strained to make the most Of it and
came back with one of the most
complete reports to date on the hu-
man side of the Allied cause.
Between November, 1941, when
her trip began. and April, 1912, when
she returned to the United States,
Miss Curie soaked herself in the
whirlpool of war. She visited the
fighting fronts in Africa, the Near
East, Russia and Asia, knitting
them together with this country's
participation to fill out her global
picture. With q womanly curiosity,
she ferreted out what was in the
minds of fighting men, their leaders
and peoples. And what she reports
here makes complex picture be-
come lucid and challenging in terms
Of understanding the needs for q
better world
Evening star., 1943-06-06
The Human Side of the World Struggle for Freedom

the Cripps mission to India, which
ended in failure. In fact, she man
aged to garner much intimate in
formation wherever she went.
After visiting the varied people of
the world, Miss Curie concludes that
communications, whatever their
merit. have not made the world
small" for the peoples themselves.
What I had seen," she writes, was
an association Of very different
peoples-different in race, color, re-
ligion, political regime, standard of
living, wealth and form of civiliza-
tion-which fought side by side, but
not together the same global war
against the same enemies. The
British Empire, the American democ-
racy, the Chinese regime of politi-
cal tutelage, Communist Russia and
their allies, had still long, long way
to 60 before attaining a genuine CO.
opera ation, a genuine understanding,
without jealousy, without mutual
suspicion"
0AA6AAO oRoV AAA A1SA SOAASANsoASAA
Is that, different as they are, the
men on the fighting fronts all realize
in these bloody times that isolation
Is doomed. She prays that the light
Of patriotism, which will always
burn. can be directed to patriotism
Of international cooperation and
good will among men. With that,
she maintains, we might persuade
ultimately even our defeated enemies
that we could replace totali-
tarianism by something actually
better, by something that would
work-not just by q political vacuum
in q world Of laissez-faire."
Understanding and sympathy
mark nearly every page of Journey
Among Warriors," imbuing it with
. warmth that should assure it .
high place On any List Of war books.
: JOE RICnkAN.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Brief Reviews
THE WAR.

THE WAR.
Four Freedoms and God, by Edwin
McNeill Poteat (Harper)-A minis
ter examines the four freedoms OF
Mr.. Roosevelt's eloquence and finds
them In accord with Christianity.
Peace and Postwar Planning, by
Sara Whitehurst General Fedora
ton OF Women's Clubs)-A question
and answer pamphlet on what will
be desirable in the world to come
after the present war.
Army Selectee's Handbook, by
John r. Graf (Stanford University
Press) - Information about each
step involved in becoming a soldier
Liberty Employment and No More
Wars, by Theodore K. Quinn CHast-
ings Housel-How to achieve the
condition indicated in the title.
He's in the Coast Guard Now, by
Henry Felsen McBride) - The
training, duties and opportunities
offered by the Coast Guard.
American Fighting Planes in Ac.
tion, by Reed Kinert CMacmillan)- j.
Excellent illustrations in color and
pencil, with accompanying descrip-
tive text. Covers all types Of Amer
ican fighting planes.
Building Model War Planes for
the Army and Navy, by Emanuele
Stieri Duell, Sloan & Pearce)-The
Army and Navy, say the publishers
need 100000 model planes. The
book is designed to instruct those
willing to contribute in the making
OF the necessary models.
Listen, Hitler, The Gremlins Arr
Coming, by Inez Hogan Dutton)-
Juvenile or adult work on the havoc
wrought by the widgets and grem-
Inns in Axis plans. Very nice pic
lures by the author.
Manpower for Victory, by John ]
Corson (Farrar & Rinehart)- How
to secure total mobilization OF all
human resources for war.
TRAVELS.
Travels in Afghanistan, by Ernest
F. Fox (Macmillan).-An oil pros.
pector writes of his experiences
among the Afghan native. Inter.
esting and we'll done.
AVIATION.
This Exciting Air, by Boone T
Guyton (Whittlesey)-A test pilo1
tells his story-thrilling material ir
rough and ready language.
HUMOR.
Semi-Private, by Sergt. Edward ]
OLeary putnam 's)-Another little
book on the struggles of a new
soldier, illustrated by the author
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Turn of the Dial
BIZ Chdrd PoUers Smith.
(CharleS Scribner's Sons, Ne10

Bu Chdrd PoUers Smith.
(Charles Scribner's Sons, Ne1D
York;
1t is perhaps unfortunate that Mr..
Smith chose the novel form to de-
liver his message about what we
are really fighting for. He could
have used the last few pages of his
book as an essay and accomplished
the same result without dragging
his readers through a fimsy story
of nearly 200 pages peopled with
absurdly simple characters whose
sole reason for existence was to pro-
vide his spokesman with something
to talk about.
Mark Harrington is a smal-town
newspaper editor who also owns
radio station. He is an ideallst OF
such dimensions that he refuses to
allow a product to be advertised
until it. has been approved by his
research man. After hearing a
Hitler speech in 1886, he devotes
his energies to warning against the
Nazi menace. Opposition is pro-
vided by a business friend who fears
for his German Investments; a
comic Judge who would rather hate
Roosevelt than Hitler and an efemi-
nate radio announcer.
Finally, Marks 20-year-old son
explaSns to him that the older gen.
Grafton, rejecting the emotionalism
of the World War, waste time and
energy on logical arguments, while
the younger generation knows in
stinctively that justice and triumph
over tyranny must be bought with
blood and sacrifice. The story ends
with a long appeal for recognition
of the spiritual values involved in
the war
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1943-06-06

High point of the book, perhaps,
is Miss Curie's report on Russia's
great share in the war. She was
present at a bitterly triumphant
stage for the battered people of that
country. But throughout her book
there is an awareness that there
are people-ike her own French
Evening star., 1943-06-06

By Ir1cin and T. NJ Johnson W. w NortonJ
spy suthoties
conadntss the
@ than send the @ of on wild eo b aean
You through when you have put facts at his immediate disposal
with all the talk about spies midst and fifth eoumnis nnde5
' :ss s may see sSs
who accordns these suhors are the best world reported
to have situation well in hand If there official
Wei seemingly lacking Intestinal fortude
of in of len emanatng a from the
gs s aid and m o se an M ns n oTae nae r
than to raise The citizen by wondering what is
citizenship functions by agents enemy
espionage situation do considerable put
rracta, Spy Deductions
agents right enough they you keep
your al subjects having military
m o g s ed o You know Uhen
hs become such science M today that pTacced spy take
relating % way to the s ID That o not m hs
spies
menay bits Of news to make a. complete picture
struck country because Hitler evidently plans
for for ne an o Te e % h have % w
right right & up Pearl m with witt the most 6p
exist to the south and that information and out by Of
japanese has fallen off noticeaby
noW indians along wd Stretches of coast snd border
port and resorts where soldiers and sailors take their liberties But
the Lives @ these wsrhes are mot pleasant for the FB1 the Secret
citizen doing his bit of he mouth
aforesaid
valuable
something
write it according
which the contains
tion to literature.
The Fall of Paris
By Ehrenburg Translated from the bv
Shelley (KnopfJ
obviously political
evident technical without life
introduced illustrate
political spontanty is permitted:
the book regmnted demonstrate
paons one
all this demonstrating
impossible to feel much interest
enough
journalism extended into fiction one
idea is
interested crushing
uous
both and
capitalists politicians plot When
give comfort, the good va
their lives. That the denouement.
have mind which divide human good and
according political parties will hnd the
Otherwise. 1t seem somewhat long and simple to
Evening star., 1943-06-06

men and the Polish-who are strug-
Cling to live again. The battles in
Libya, Burma and China are we'll
covered. The confusion in the
Asiatic sphere, the problems of
China and India, are given fresh
and incisive flrst-hand treatment
Miss Curie had backstage view of
Evening star., 1943-06-06
The Waltz Is Over

6y dGSLST RUE. tFUTTuT 0
Rineh1rt.)
Here Is a first-rate melting pot
novel. It concerns three generations
of the Nordlander family and the
way in which America changed the
family from Austrians into Amer
leans, and it has an excellent and
very useful contrast of values-on
one side, the life and habit of
thought the Nordlanders brought,
and, on the other, the social pat
terms they found it necessary to At
themselves to. The novel is much
helped by Miss Pines understanding
management of the transition
these people do not drop their old
ties and habits; they are slowly
melted away. is
Evening star., 1943-06-06
The First Century of Flight in America

By Jeremiah Milbank, jr. Princeton Uuiuersu)
This brief and the whole early
eos OF men in this alof
ed with number of anecdotes partly contemporary
newspapers and
OF local interest
the Civil dispeed
Washington And back
1ntelgencer carried reports aerial
Washington
dinner parties in Boston, and home the
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Conrad and His Contemporaries
By J. H. Retinger. (Roy Publish

J. IT. Ren1ger. Roy
Conrad the rather than
of letters knew his compaot intimately especially the
of 1909 1914
Pole who became the leading styli
Conrad
philosopher
Retnger
deineaion
exceeny
olski also MALCOLM Jr.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Presidential Also Rams
Irving Stone Tells the Stories
OF 10 Candidates Who Failed
Rv Mnrv-C carter Roberfs
They Also Ran
By Mary-Carfer Roberts.

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something that 1tr the "sp D the w9 Sphe thar
5 5 f na ben popns
m At the same tms their do to be known
He gives us the cases Of 10 men They the popular candidates
who quincy Adams in 1924 For each man. he gives
rsyisv with he victor
situations
Arbitrary Devices Are Part
geth Clay Bryan
s mh sna Ae 5 ran andon @ eoue LEWIS sfon ae al o va
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m have made better Two he considers equal in
whom LETT but the
Bryan Only half the time then III has democracy been right its final
ealamious candidates depressing That take Mr.
His research to state have been somewhat
he Rbs m n o o That h Rf s
country better than Buchanan defeated him. There
substantial school which
Fremont errat boafu and irresponsible Mr. Stone makes
gone to primary sources his
Meritorious Service
Here his however for what it is worth Clay Douglas Nc
Cean Blaine
Fremont Seymour Greeley 1den Hancock Cox Davis and Smith would
Presidents the
Wlke
intelligent Franklin Roosevelt the
which better
which,
Horatio Seymour the Civil New York
fought liberties
saded for religious tolerance who went record that prohb-
abouhe
gotten figure today could discovered He defeated by Grant
rable
of limbo briefly, a service kind.
auctorial work has thus commend
good He his preface that he spent and
half the there apdash quality writing
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Best Sellers

best SellerS
FICTION.
The Robe, by Lloyd c.
Douglas.
Gideon Planish, by Sinclair
Lewis.
Winters Tales, by Isak Dine
son.
Capricornia, by Xavier Her
bert.
Citizen Tom Paine, by How
ard Fast.
NON-FICTION.
One World, by Wendell
Willkie.
Journey Among Warriors, by
Eve Curie.
Our Hearts Were Young and
Gay, by Cornelia Otis Skinner
and Emily Kimbrough.
Chicken Every Sunday, by
Rosemary Taylor.
Passport to Treason, by Alan
Hynd.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Now Is the Moment

By Harold Rugg. (DueH, Sloan PearceJ
their minds to work toward two goals First participate vigorously
bringing
will not allow themselves be engufed by depression the post
that they will their social
level without unemployment in time in war;
question whether
front at which he predicts will
when the United Nations achieve the Allied
in combat he tells directs attentions the
to
taking
lifting together
a if
will stall than and break altogether The alter
native, he adds will be Tascist-managed society"
Ptirm Sorokin believes that
Exploi-
tive Tradition principal in his diagnosis the social crisis of
times.
whom world like ous?" asks "This
abroad believers
Great Tradition all the world to beat down
to destroy Master Glass"
evidence general home
normalcy
beginning
a
of writing
parallel the Civil Political Bills already included
in
Though many
educational build public
of
nomcs system, a full employment level
welcome
solid thinking the nature OF the postwar world and the
will died Not must we have durable
imagination and creative spirit must be
employment industrial
all
contribution its solution by emphasizing the urgncy the post
bem OLIVER MCKEE
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Report on the Russians
A. P. Writer Cassidy Explains
Those Letters From Stain
Moscow DoteIine


By Henry c. Cassidy. (Houghton Mif7n,
given
the American correspondent
and after Germanys
have written their Russian Associated
colony had been evacuated
than the with the Others
He Is in position to tell with
with the support given their Allies chiefly
the subject
telling OF he what ought to be immortal credit admitting
virtual gift a complete
He had ordered
statement from Stain relating
the West
as he says he other
90 without proddng
1t the obvious thing
Russians called the English disnclnaton
general the situation needed clarifying
Official statement
even get they asked for
attitude.
getting Office
he did than write routine questions them
the Kremin with completely
particular of
Stains attention. and drew explicit signed
letter dictator told the the
at all Allied the failure
the Allies fulfill obligations
world exclusive to Mr. Cassidy The explanation which
he offers that his conviction his effort would
thinks he might have failed San influenced by
diplomatic approach
another list OF the dictator another
personal addition When
Allies landed North Africa asked Stain
what thought the exploit that Stain
publicly through the had public
But for these episodes Mr. Cadys book journalists
parties matching descriptions of the sketches of the
hardshp Of the population behind the lines. NC. R.