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Brief Reviews
JOURNALISM.

The Disappearing Daily, by Os-
wald Garrison Willard Knopf)-
This is a subject on which Mr.. VII
lard can write with real authority.
having been able to study at first
hand the decline of at least two
once distinguished publications
under his own editorship. The vol
ume contains no noticeable addi.
tions to the rather well known per.
sonal views Of MIR. Willard regard
ing journalism, journalists aud
journals.
WAR.
Report on Demobilization, by
James r. Mock and Evangeline
Thurber University of Oklahoma)
"A study Of the rehabilitation
which followed World War I, with
emphasis on errors which the au-
thors suggest should be avoided at
the end Of World War II. VAL
liable.
Wings After War, by s. Paul
Johnston Duell, Sloan g. Pearcel
"A brief study of what the avia-
tion industry will require when
peace arrives. Intelligent.
Bombardment Aviation, by Keith
Ayling military Service)-A de-
scription of what goes into q bonn
bardment fight.
The Helicopters are Coming, by
G. B. F. Macauley (Whittlesey)-
View into the future when every.
body will own and fly his own ship.
The Illustrated Aviation Encyclo-
pedia, edited by Aviation Research
Associates (New Home Library
Aviation terms, scientific and slang.
NOVELS.
Shadow Of Night, by August Der
leth (Scribner)-A dramatic novel
of Wisconsin in the 1866, the aim
being to show the effect of the free
land on a European who comes to it
with Europe's political passions
weighing on his life.
o River, Remember! by Martha
Ostenso Dodd, Mead)-Story of two
feuding Minnesota families making
up In the young generation. Trade
piece.
Journal of Madame Giovanni, BY
Alexander Dumas Giveright)-Pub-
lished in English for the first time,
Wild River, by Anna Louise
Strong Little, Brown)-Story Of
how a Russian gang leader came
under the influence of the Dnieper
Dam and became good man with
love interest included. Miss Strong's
usual steam siren style.
So Long as We Love, by Peter
Goulding (Wilde)-Story of young
minister in a small town. Trade ar
ticle.
PLACES.
Come Over Into Macedonia, by
Harold B. Allen Rutgers University
Press)-The author lived 10 years
in Macedonia, teaching peasants
modern methods of farming and liv-
ing. He met with sufficient success
to offer his work now as suggestive
of methods to be followed in dealing
with backward communities after
the war.
Islands of the Pacific, by Haw.
thorne Daniel Climate.
topography, fauna, flora, peoples,
government, etc., of the islands
known as the South Sea.
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Turkey: Key to the East
By Chester M. Tobin. (Put

Many American newspaper read
ers have been perplexed during the
last few years by the attitudes and
actions of Turkey. While allied to
Great Britain and France and re-
ceiving lease-lend aid from the
United States, Turkey nevertheless
has kept up brisk trade with Ger
many in some of the most vital ma
terials of war, including chromium.
Mr.. Tobin's brief and pithy book
should help to resolve this perplex-
ity. He shows how the infant Turk
ish republic, during the period after
the World War, although orientated
automatically toward Great Britain,
France and Russia, became en-
meshed in the Nazi economic sys-
tenn to the point where it's CONNER
cial life was dependent on trade
with the Reich.
Mr.. Tobin's first job of Importance
took him to Turkey in 1924. A typ
ical young American college man,
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made by the Senate Campaign
Practices Committee, of which Sen
ator Theodore F. Green, Democrat,
of Rhode Island is chairman. The
only new element added by this
investigation was Green's statement
that in some localities the CIO
committee had paid the poll taxes
of voters who could not afford to
do so. Baldwin said that the re-
ported poll tax payments were
news to him, but that it was
possible. that some of the regional
areas of locals had made these
payments. This is an old political
operation, used for years by all
factions in the poll tax States. The
beneficiaries are expected to vote
the way indicated by their patrons
Senator Homer Ferguson, Re-
publican, of Michigan agreed with
the immediate findings of the
Senate committee, but added that
his group would not be bound by
the Attorney Generals opinion.
There is nothing before the COM
mittee," he said, ito show that any
violations of the campaign prac-
tices laws have been committed by
individuals, corporations or labor
unions. But the campaign is not
on yet and nothing was expected
at this stage. The committee will
VIC fob fhro11uLo,,t tho m y,ooo;rr,, ),
Expects to Obey Law.
With so many restrictions on its
activities and so many congressional
enemies watching for violations, how
will the Political Action Committee
function?
Baldwin told the writer that he
foresaw no difficulty in staying with
in the law and at the same time
making organized labor's influences
effective at the polls. He conceded
that it would not be as easy as in
1896 when trade unions contributed
known $770,218 to campaign funds
of which $254961 went to the
Democratic National Committee
1927 1893 to Labor's Non-P Partisan
League, and $180,55S to the Ameri.
can Labor party, and all for the re.
election of President Roosevelt.
OF this sum, the United Mine
Workers of John L. Lewis paid Out
nearly $470,0O0, while Hillmans
Amalgamated Clothing Workers anc
Dubinsky's International Ladies
Garment Workers and the Cap anc
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Crimea cut off. Sevastopol was later
wrested from the erstwhile invaders.
Since March the Russians have
advanced in what was formerly
Southeastern Poland, where the
Nazis admit they are surrounded at
Kowel, and farther south into Ro-
mania.
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By Mary.Carfer Roberts.

The went there, he relates, filed with
antagonism toward the Terrible
Turk"-a result, he says, Of listening
to college lecturer propagandises for
the Armenians and Greeks. Instead
Of Terrible Turks" he says, he
found his new associates "eager.
ambitious, courteous gentlemen. "'
working to establish new democ-
racy on the ruins Of the old Otto
man Empire.
Mr.. Tobin's book, after a quick
review Of the history of Turkey, de-
scribes the political and economic
life Of the modern state and outlines
its postwar international policies.
The book contains sharply etched
pictures Of Kemal Ataturk, father
Of modern Turkey, and his successor.
Ismet Inonu. now President Of the
republic.
This volume can be highly recon-
|mended as brief and sympathetic
review of the position Of Turkey in
the world of today.
JOSEPH H. BAIRD.
Our Heritage
By Sol Bloom. (Putnam.)
Historians of the future will find
much Of value in this collection Of
the addresses and writings Of Rep
resentative Sol Bloom of New York.
1t is veritable storehouse of in
formation on the life Of George
Washington and the formulation of
the Constitution. That Is, of course,
to be expected, in view of Mr..
Blooms work as director Of the
George Washington Bicentennial in
1882 and Of the Sesquicentennial Of
the Constitution in 1937-1s39. But
other interesting and important sub
jects have not been sighted.
Representative Blooms work as
chairman of the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs is represented by
addresses on revision of the Neu-
trality Act, aid to Britain, lease
lend legislation and other topics.
Appendices include miscellaneous
addresses, letters, newspaper arti-
cles, analyses of the Constitution
and its amendments, neutrality
resolutions, the Lease-Lend Act,
declarations of war and the relief
and rehabilitation resolution.
A biographical section, "Sol
Bloom: His Public Service" by Ira
E. Bennett, former editor Of the
Washington Post, gives the volume
a satisfactory amount of human in.
tereSt. PHILIP LOVE.
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Left Hand, Right Hand!
By Sir Osbert SitUeH. little
BrO1D71.

This book is simply an item for
connoisseurs Of prose. It is exquisite
writing. It tells us, to be sure. the
history Of the authors family back
ground, childhood and youth; he re-
fers to 1t himself as a first part of
his autobiography. But that is a
TACT and the book Is not one to be
treated In terms of facts. It Is
writer's writing and 50 Joy forever.
One Is familiar enough with the
dictpm (though not so familiar with
it's apphcation) that. the right word
must be in the right place. That is
a sound principle, but elementary. A
bit more advanced Is the concept
that words are compounded of syl-
lables and that syllables express
profound and ancient roots of
meaning and embrace in their brief
form vast accumulation Of expert
ence and association, from which
they acquire a flavor, a bouquet, an
individuality which renders any
study OF synonyms essentially a
study In elimination in order that
words shall be selected that are not
merely Of adequate meaning, but
also Of related mood. And then
there is the balance for the ear
And then there is the thing that is
beyond all mechanics-the instinct
for propriety. You have writer's
writing when you find all these to-
gether and the finding Is sufficiently
rare in these days of standardized
vulgarity to make any book which
affords it treasure, whatever ii
may be about.
We're this latter condition not 50
the reviewer admits that she would
have a milder enthusiasm for Sir
Osbert Sitwell's memoirs. They
prove to be, in their first section. a
review OF the Sitwell ancestry
paternal and maternal, and that is
subject Of somewhat less than
exciting interest If you view it mere
iy as subject. Even the fact that
the ancestral tree bore some very
distinguished fruit cannot make a
climb through the branches worth
while Tor its own sake. Nor does the
circumstance that Sir Osbert's
chlldhood was spent in an English
countryside of great and now lost
plcturesqueness of itself make a
detailed reminiscence of his expert
ences and sensations significant,
nor can 1t be claimed, either that
ms own contributions to English
ie1ters are OF such lasting inport-
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mans managed to hold Orsha in the
Dnepr bend, and Vitebsk; but in the
center they fell back pastNRogachev.
In the south-center the Russians
pursued them across the old Polish
border; in the south they recap
tured the strategic Black Sea port of
Odessa, leaving the Nazis in the
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Old Master ,,, - 5",.-
By Rene Kraus. (Dutton.)

This work Is, by its authors word
a biography Of South Africa's Gen
SHUTS. To q reader, however, it viii
seem hardly to fulfill a biography's
purpose. It falls, instead, between
the stools of biography and history
It is written for an American public
and Mr.. Kraus has taken due ac-
count of the fact that few Amer
leans know much about the his
torical events of Gen. Smut's coun-
try. Consequently he has devoted
much of his work to reporting the
ins and out of South African pol
itics. But, even with so much labor,
he never makes the whole picture
clear and Ineligible, nor does he
produce an account of his hero
which Is either consistent or con-
tinuous. His history breaks in on
his biography, in other words, and
both history and biography suffer.
It is to be regretted, for Gen. Smuts
is figure of considerable interest
for the present moment as well as
for the past.
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The Red Army has recaptured
about nine-tenths of the pre-1939
Russian territory overrun by the
Nazis since Hitler launched his in
vasion in the summer of 1941.
1t has retaken all the important
industrial areas and most of the rich
Agricultural lands the Germans had
occupied - and had largely laid
waste. White Russia is about the
only important part of the pre-1939
Russia remaining in Nazi hands.
Through nearly two and a half
years of retreat, the Nazis at times
have resumed the offensive in some
localities, but their general move
ment has been a retreat westward
since Stalingrad.
Organized Nazi Retreat.
Experts in this country consider
that they have, in general, been
masters of their own tactics during
this long withdrawal, though spec
tacularly beaten. They have been
trapped at some places, but the gen.
eral picture is one of an organized
retreat, based on a pivotal position
In the north, first at Staraya Russa.
now at Pskov, near Lake Peipus.
The crest of Hitler's wave carried
MIN 300 miles eastward to the banks
OF the Volga at Stalingrad. Mean
while, he had driven to the outskirts
OF Moscow and even cut the railway
northeast of the Soviet capital. but
had been thrown back by deter
mined Russian counterattacks.
He overran the rich Ukraine. the
strategic Dneper and Donets Valleys
with their concentrations of mining
and industrial growth and pressed
on past the Maikop oil fields to
Mozdok in the Caucasus Mountains
to menace the Grozny oil fields and
those still farther east at Baku on
the Caspian Sea. -t.. re-
outfianked at Stalingrad.
In the meantime he had invested
Lenlngrad in the north, but that citv
held out. In all Hitler had occupied
about $4,000 square miles of Rus
sian soil, not including the Baltic
states and the half of Poland held
by Russia.
Then the Russians outfanked and
cut to pieces his army at Stalingrad.
BY the middle of February, last wear
the Russians had pushed him back
important distances in the south. In
the center he still held Rzhev.
kharkov and Orel, and in the north
he retreated to Lake linen.
Staraya Russia, near Lake linen.
served as pivot on which the Nazi
retreat swung westward from then
on. BY autumn the Wehrmacht had
withdrawn to the Dnepr River line,
Reds Mightiest Offensive.
Then, in massed attacks from
Leningrad to the Black Sea. the
Russians opened their third and
mlghtiest offensive. They drove the
Nazis in the north back into Esto-
mia. In the north-center the Ger
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FrossI0
By E. M. Almedingen. (Har-
court, Brace.)
The author of this book seems to
have become writer by virtue Of
having lived through certain his
torical events. She Is Russian,
she grew up in the city now called
Leningrad and in the hungry years
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Here she has put much the same
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She gives us a girl-Frossia-
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the men representing the new gov
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The actual story has little devel-
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Evening star., 1944-05-21
Mr.. Roosevelt
By Compton Mackenzie. fDut.
tOn.)

Readers who view. President
Roosevelt with something less than
unqualified alteration and want to
go on holding that minority opin-
ion are hereby warned of this biog-
raphy. It is a very sweet piece of
persuasion. For Compton Macken-
zie's verdict on our President is that
Mr.. Roosevelt is q man of destiny
sent-pat-to heal the ills of the
world, and that his leadership must
go on, increasing in breadth and
power II we are all not to come to
very lamentable ends. There is no
word of adverse criticism in the vol
ume, there is not even suggestion
that such criticism is possible. And
yet, rapturous as it's estimate is
the book is hard to resist. Mr..
Mackenzie's sincerity is infections
The reviewer predicts that it will be
so even among those who feel that
his reasoning leaves something to
be desired.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
New Era
Brazil Looks to Post.
war Plans

Continued From Page C-1)
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Hampered by bad weather, the
heavyweight bombers were grounded
the greater part of last week, but
Mosquitoes and other lighter craft
carried on without letup. The 3lst
day of the big blitz occurred Monday
when Liberators and Flying Fort
resses smashed at the Pas-de-C Calais
area, meeting no air opposition and
from then on the little fellows took
over until Friday, when $500 of the
big four-motored bombers hit Ber-
lin and Brunswick. which the Mazis
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whose early recollections necessarily
hold the readers respect. Yet, these
reservations all admitted, the fact
remains that he has done a beauti-
full book. It Is superior to both its
material and occasion.
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their visit and their tea 50 much
that they came back every day that
they remained in Washington.
Only recently a young 19-year-old
paratrooper came to the Penthouse
to get some sightseeing informa-
ton. 1t was given to him, but by
the time he had met some of the
hostesses and been given some re-
freshment he was having such q
good time that he didn't want to &c
sightseeing, so he just stayed in the
lounge.
A sailor wanted to locate his girl
SPAR. He knew she was in Wash
ington but she had only arrived and
wasn't registered, 50 he asked Mrs
Nesbit to help him. vt took about an
hour and a half and some telephon-
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Mrs. Nesbit and her husband are
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Southern Maryland
Society News

LEONARDTowN, Md. Aug. 81
Mrs. George p. Loker and her son,
Mr.. G. p. Loker, jr., Of Washington
and Cincinnati, Ohio, are occupying
their residence here.
Mrs. E. j. Ehlers and Mrs. Walter
J. Mitchell OF La Plata left Tuesday
to visit Mrs. Carlos Grevenberg In
Waynesboro, Va.
Miss Sadie Gray OF Prince Fred
erick has as guest Miss Mary War
rem Of Snow Hill, Md.
Mrs. Preston WOodburn of Solo
mons Island entertained at lunch
con and bridge Thursday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Claire BriscOe of
Mutual have with them for q visit
their son, Pvt. John Briscoe of
Camp Gordon, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Cox, jr.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Turner OF
Huntington are spending a week
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Dodson in
Washington.
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daughter who Is student at Will
liam and Mary College and during
the summer months has been teach
ing tennis and dramatics to the
Camp Stay-at- Home members. Mr..
Nesbit is interested, too, in what is
being done by the USO and helps
Mrs. Nesbit chaperone the YW-USO
dances every six weeks.
A graduate Of Swarthmore Col
lege, Mrs. Nesbit Is active in the
Phi Beta Phi Alumni Club and is
president of the Wesley Heights
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win entertain 1t an informal recep-
ton this evening at their home at
$500 Twelfth street NE. in celebra-
tion OF the 25th anniversary Of their
wedding.
Mrs. lie Nor is the former Miss
Mary Cecilia Foley, who attended
school here and was graduated from
st. Patrick's Academy. Her mar
riage to Mr.. Le Noir took place In
st. Patrick's Church with the late
Msgr. Cornelius r. Thomas ofiici-
ating.
Assisting the hosts at their cele-
bration this evening will be their
son and daughter, Mr.. Gerald p
lie Noir and Miss Jean E. lie Noir
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Schneider have
come down from Newark, N. j., fol-
the occasion, and Mrs. Allen o
Myers Of Maplewood, N. j., also is
here for the party.
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Of daytime volunteers for this par-
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They are wonderful volunteers,
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to them that this club Il 20 sue
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Is months and has been chairman
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-18
Son Is Wounded

The elder Johnson, now g, just
receives word that one OF two
sons in service who was wounded
in the Italian campaign, 1t. Don
aid c. Johnson of the infantry
has been discharged from hos
pital and is on his way back Il
combat duty. The young lieuten-
ant played ball with Sans team
on the local Sandlots.
The other son. Capt. Ralph II
johnson. an Army Air Forces
flying instructor at Harding Field
in Louisiana, was a football star
at Wayne University.
incidentally, one Of the most
active of the softball league IN
Detroit is one sponsored by The
Detroit Times. 1t has 120 teams
comprised Of approximately 1000
carrier boys. The league, now in
its second year. is big thing in
the lives Of the lads who bring
copies of the Times to the door
steps Of customers.
The Times League is especially
popular with youngsters because
OF ITS wide scope. Besides playing
q local schedule. winners get to
play other Hearst teams from
Chicago and Milwaukee here and
in those cities as well.