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Evening star., 1944-04-23
Brief Reviews
MYSTERIES.

Miss Silver Deals With Death, by
Patricia Wentworth Nippincott)-
Murder in an apartment house filled
with odd people. Solved by lady
detective. Average.
The Lady and the Arsenic, by
Joseph Shearing (Barnes)-Another
of Mr.. Shearing's f1ctional recon.
structions of actual crimes, this one
the case of Marie La Forge, who
was accused of numbering her hus.
band back in the 1830s. Mastery.
The Conqueror Inn, by E. r.
Punshon Observation-Disclosures
murder in an old English inn out
on those mysterious moors. Good
reading.
Home Sweet Homicide, by Craig
Rice (Simon & Schuster)-Trick
story in which lady writer of
thrillers has a murder next door to
solve. Average.
Cats Prowl at Night, by A. A. Fair
(Morrow)-A wise cracking thriller
with a lady sleuth. Pretty good.
Flower of the Gods, by Eden Phil
potts (Macmillan) - Strange dis
appearance of a famous plant coll
lector Unusual in plot, but rather
slow-moving action.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Thesaurus of the Arts, by Albert E.
Weir (Putnams)-Reference work
on personalities, subjects and terms
in drama, music, radio, painting,
cinema, television, literature, sculp-
ture, architecture and ballet.
Webster's Biographical Diction-
ary (Merriam)-Forty thousand con-
else biographies.
THE WAR.
World War III, by Maj. Frank
Monaghan, u. S. A. Ferguson)-An
illustrated history of the war to date.
Political and military. Popularity
written.
Dedication, arranged by Keith
Warren Jennison (Holt)-A book Of
pictures, designed to present the
ideals of the United Nations. :.
Modern Warfare, by Gen. Wlady-
slaw Sikorski, with an introduction
by Gen. George G. Marshall Roy)-
A book written in 1884 in which the
late Polish leader outlined closely
the future of military developments.
They Sent Me to Iceland, by Jane
Goodell CWashburn-Aw woman Red
Cross worker writes of her assign
ment.
HISTORY.
A Short History Of Chinese Civili-
zation, by Tsui Chi Putnam's)-An
effort to bring China's past within
the grasp of the ordinary western
reader
A Short History Of Russia, by B.
H. Sumner (Reynal g. Hitchcock
An effort to bring Russia's past
within the grasp of the ordinary
western reader.
Fifteen Decisive Battles Of the
World. by Sir Edward Greasy Mili-
tary Service)-The old classic with
nine more battles added by Robert
Hammond Murray. Nothing later
than 1905.
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attack on the New Deal. He will
probably accommodate them. Gov.
Warren is no isolationist, as he him
self has said. He is intensely keen
on winning the war. Like other
West Coasters, he is anxious to put
an end to the Japanese yellow
peril" once and for all.
The keynoter is an attractive fig
ure. He is big, blue-eyed, with a
timex crop of graying hair, although
he is only So years old. He is no
novice in political and public life.
He put a crimp in the New Deal
party in California in 1912 when he
defeated Gov. Olson by $4,000
votes. The Democratic registration
in California at that time was
2,00G, 900 to 10000 for the Repub-
iican party.
Like Gov. Dewey, Gov. Warren is
IA lawyer, and as prosecutor-dis-
trict attorney of Alameda County
he sent many bootleggers, grafters
and corrupt politicians to Jail. His
story is similar to that of other
Americans who have gone to the
top. His first job was call boy,
waking up railroad men in time to
go to work. He was newsboy and
then cub reporter for the Bakers
Vile Californian. He went to the
University of California and on his
graduation from law school, prac-
ticed for three years in Oakland.
He was drafted for military service
IN the World War and wound up as
a lieutenant in the infantry, but,
did not get overseas. -
After the war he landed his first
political job, clerk to a legislative
committee. He became assistant
district attorney, district attorney
and attorney general of the State.
In 1912 he tackled Gov. Olson and
beat him. In California a man
may run on as many tickets as he
likes. Gov. Warren won the Re-
publican nomination by wide mar
|gin and almost won the Democratic
nomination, too.
Warren and Dewey have been
friends for some years. When
Dewey was head of the National
USO, Gov. Warren headed up the
California branch. They have met
frequently. Like Dewey, Warren
has still two more years to serve in
his present gubernatorial term.
Furthermore, his lieutenant gov
ernor has announced himself a
candidate for the senatorial nomi-
nation against Senator Downey,
Democrat. Should he receive the
nomination and be elected, and
Warren be nominated on the Re-
publican national ticket and win,
toe, California would be in an un-
usual position-without either Gov
ernor or lieutenant governor. This,
| it has been said, is contributing
factor to Warrens disinclination to
be placed on the national ticket.
The Republicans in national con-
vention, however, will decide.
If the Republicans win next No
vember, and Warren is not on the
ticket, he might be the choice of the
new President for Attorney General.
Stranger things have happened.
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Best Sellers

flCIION.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn,
by Betty Smith.
So Little Time, by John P.
Marquand.
The Apostle, by Sholem Asch.
Strange Fruit, by Lillian
Smith.
The Lost Week End, by
Charles Jackson.
NONFICTION.
Good Night, Sweet Prince, by
Gene Fowler.
Here Is Your War, by Ernie
Pyle.
They Shall Not Sleep, by
Leland Stowe.
Under Cover, by John Roy
Carlson.
The Curtain Rises, by Quentin
Reynolds.
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Fog, which might be an i'm
portant factor in a cross Channel
amphibious move, is not entirely
out of the picture. But by mid
spring the likelihood of a pea
souper" is considerably less than
it was during the winter months.
Though such a natural smoke
screen might seem to aid ap-
preaching forces, actually it
would seriously hamper the COM
plicated air and sea shuttle serv-
ice which modern invasion entails.
Frenchmen, from their lower
shores, call the English Channel
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and that the ownership therefore
might as well be American. 1t was
added that the war has forcibly in
volved the United States In power
politics. that this is a game In
which 1t is necessary to hold a strong
hand and that the Saudi Arabian
pipeline would be a powerful card.
printed by special arransement with the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.)
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many's heart. How will it serve
Britons at invasion time?
Easterly gales which can whip
the 22-mile- wide Dover Strait
into bowling inferno have
reached the end of their season.
April is the beginning of good
weather in the Channel. Ordinary
winds are westerly. In days of
sail they would have greatly
favored an invasion from the
British Isles-though the Spanish
armada, approaching from the
west in 1888, was betrayed by
British winds.
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on, and get, as we 60 along, o sense
the wonder Of family love. The book
will certainly not create any serlsa-
ton, but it does deserve respect.
The Rozorrs Edge
By w. Somerset Mduchnnt.
doubleday, Dordn.)
Many novels Of religious theme
have stirred readers whose hearts
were In state Of susceptibility.
Here Is one for minds that have
rebelied at what they regard as
spiritual isentimentaiity, or faith
based on anything bat reason. It
is worldly but strangely inspiring.
lit may well lead to reflection BY
those who shy from the word
soul"
The story. as Mr.. Vaughan says,
lis negligible. It concerns o young
man who saw death In war and
came home to devote himself to
searching for knowledge Of his
material and spiritual role In life,
a search that Is in opposition to all
that he has known before society,
ambition and love. He finds his
faith in India, where sages admit
ted that salvation may be won
by the way of love and the way of
works. but never denied that the
noblest way, though the hardest, is
the way Of knowledge, for its in
strument is the most precious fac
ulty of man, his reason"
After long period of lean writing,
Mr.. Vaughan has produced a book
In which readers will find ID he is
dealing with a theme that very much
concerns him, the escape from "hu-
man bondage" but is too good
craftsman to let it become heavy or
ponderous; (2) he treats Of the frail-
ties Of personalities very often held
sacred; Cd he draws satirical por-
trait Of male social climber that Is
comparable to that of the ambitious
novelist In Cakes and Ale"; az he
is writing Of Americans for the first
time in q novel, though admittedly
from the British point OF view; 90
he has written scenes that will be
criticized as more worldly than any
he has ever written.
If you like characteristic Maug.
ham, you'll like "Tne Razor's Edge"
You will do wrong to read 1t In
search of a tailor-made faith, but
you may be able to find In 1t some
materials. /. WILLIAM HILL.
Evening star., 1944-04-23
The Steep Ascent
By Anne MorroD Lindbergh
(HdrcOnrt Brace

By Anne MorroW Lindbergh
(Hdrcourt, Brace.)
In this stream of consciousness
novelette,, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
describes the emotions of a woman
who accompanies her husband on a
perilous flying trip. That is all. The
woman does not really like flying
and when flying becomes dangerous
she Is scared. But flying is the
great drive of her husbands life
and IN sharing that drive with him.
she rounds out her marriage. So she
goes with him on Q flight over the
Alps, worrying all the way, but
thinking how she is, after all,
rounding out her marriage. Then
the plane comes down, and they are
safe, and her need to think is ended
for a while. This story, Mrs. Lind
oergh says, in a preface, is not
autobiographical. One understands
then that it is piece of imagina-
tive writing.
Stand on q Rainbow
By Mary Quayle Innis. (Duell,
Sloan & Pearce.)
Extremely mild but not quite in
sipid, this little novel reports a
mothers reactions as she carries on
the normal duties of her three-child
medium-income family. The au-
thor's purpose has been to let us see
how, in such an unremarkabie exist
ence, there is a constant movement
OF the emotion and a field for the
use of profound intelligence. She
brings it off very we'll.
We follow the family from summer
cottage to city home, We appreciate
the crises reflected in the mothers
soul by the children's grief over a
strayed dog or their pride In the
Evening star., 1944-04-23
The Neuv Books
Born Under Saturn
By Catherine Macdonald Mac.

BY LuLNCTI7LG MuCDOTIUtQ MuC-I
Lean. (MdcmilIdn.)
A curious contradiction will con-
front the reader of this biography
of william Hazlitt. The book Is
written in a prose so redundant
and unskilled as to appear at times
outright amateurish. The scholar
ship which the author displays,
however, and, much more impor-
tantly, what may be called her
noble biographical passion, are so
that the effect of her
writing is reduced to in
No one would heSi-
tate to call her work an important
piece of history. Remindfully, It'll
stands as one more piece of proof
that creativeness is mostly OF the|
spirit and never wholly Of the hand.
Her method has been to deal with
Hazlitt factually in terms of the
conditions under which he lived,
and intuitively in terms of his re-
actions to those conditions. Her
resulting achievement is a massive
picture Of early 10th century Eng
|and-its preoccupation with Bona
parte, its growing reform move
ment, its conflicting religions sects,
its passionate emotions over doc
trinal questions SO dead to the mod
ern mind as to seem nearly med1-
eval-and a sensitive, surgical pen
etration into a mind which orig
inally had the gift of universally,
but which was shaped by its times
into the times virtual embodiment.
Hazlitt, the public pamphleteer,
journalist, lecturer, critic and fighter
for freedom, becomes, in her ham
ding, the projection of the positive
side of the social STRINGS of his
age and country; while Hazlitt, the
private man, unhappy, delicately
balanced, bound in his emotions by
improbable romanticism
and puritanism, shows with convic-
ton as the victim Of the negative
which surrounded
personal relations in the time. The
balance between the two presenta-
tions is not always perfect; there are
times when the turbulence Of the
background diminshes the human
hero practically to the vanishing
point. Even so, this Is a memorably
fine book. Its quality Is that of an
author both inspired and compre-
hending.
The Dyess Story
By 1t. Col. William. E. Dyess.
Edited With an Introduction
By Charles Leavelle. put
nnm'S.)
William E. Dyess has now become
one of Americas war heroes. He
was member Of that little group
of immortals-pilots who held out
to the last in the Philippines, straf-
ing the Japs from patched-together
ships as long as patched altogether
ships could be made to fly. Then
he was prisoner of the Japs, see
ing and feeling the degraded saw
agery which that enemy has con-
sistently visited on its white cap
tives. Then he escaped, returned
to America, took rest enough to re-
cover his strength, and went back
to the fight. His great career ended.
when, December %, 1943, he crashed
in a fatal accident on the West
Coast. o.
Other survivors have by now told
the story of Bataan and Japanese
Imprisonment; Col. Dyess' nara
tive, too, has been widely serial
lied. It is beside the point, there
fore, to comment on its content.
But it can be accurately said that
no account published to date ex-'
ceeds 1t In vividness and action. It
is fighting mans report, par excel
lence.
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The Royal Game

With "Amok" and "Letter
From an UnknoDn Woman" !"
By Stefan Zweig. viking
PreSS.)
OF the three novelettes in this
volume, "The Royal Game" is pub
lished in book form for the first
time. It is Stefan Zweig's last work
of fiction. The other two stories
have been in print for dozen years
or so and are added here apparent
ly to round out the volume to ade-
quate length.
"The Royal Game" is an old
fashioned, Balzacian sort of tale.
Polish and neatness in it seem to
take precedence over significance,
but 1t Is written with an unwaver-
ing portentousness notwithstanding.
1t tells of how a refugee from Nazi-
ism who, in long period of solitary
confinement occupied his mind with
imaginary chess games until he suf-
fered breakdown, later met the
world chess champion and defeated
him, only to undergo renewed break
down symptoms. 1t is a skillful ex-
ercise in writing, no more. The
same can be said of the two older
novelties. They deal with "dra-
matte situations" right out of the
dramatic situation book, and do so
elegantly, too.
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Privote Papers Of an Army
Year
By William, Justem1. fDuell,
Sloan & Pedrce.

In this volume of poems, a COM
mercial artist turned Army engi-
ileer undertakes to express his feel
ings about war and military life in
his time. William Justema, in peace
was a successful designer of, wall
paper and fabrics, who also wrote
rather precious verses, some Of
which had publication IN well-es-
teemed periodicals. At America.
entry into the war, he was just in.
side draft age and promptly en-.
listed. He was sent to California
served until 1943 in camouflage, re-
ceiving a citation, and was dis.
charged for an injury sustained or
maneuvers.
His verses are slight and self
conscious. They express an IRON
ical attitude and offer the somewhat
we'll established superiority of the
enlightened man to wars desola-
ton. They occasionally touch the
borders of real poetry, though for
the most part they are the posed
prose which commonly does duty
for that same. For that, Mr.. JUS
tema seems to have a definite talent
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on the south and east by a number
of minor sheikdoms. They are gen.
orally controlled by British political
agents and are under treaty to grant
no oil concessions without British
participation. Moreover, the future
Middle East activities of all COM
panies in Iraq Petroleum, including
Standard of New Jersey and Socony
Vacuum, are circumscribed by what
is known as the Red Line Agree
ment." The participating companies
agreed that Iraq Petroleum should
be their sole agent within the area
of the old Turkish Empire, includ-
ing .Saudi-Arabia, and that new
markets or concessions obtained by
any one of the companies in that
area would be shared with the
others according to the Iraq Petro-
leum pattern.
In view of these facts, an explana-
ton Is necessary as to how Ameri-
can interests were able to obtain
even a foothold in the Middle East.
The Gulf Oil Corps discovery OF
petroleum in Kuwait was greeted
with rejoicing by the local sheik,
who informed the Americans, how
ever, that he was under obligation to
bestow a half interest on the Brit
ish. American explorers succeeded
in proving the Bahrein area after
the British had rejected it as not
worth developing. In Saudi Arabia
the British backed the wrong
horse" in the revolution which
brought Ibn Saud to the throne. He
has never forgiven that affront, and
defied the "red line agreement" by
granting exclusive concessions to an
American engineer, Lloyd Hamilton,
who represented Standard of Cali
fornia and the Texas Co.
But 10 years have passed, and
Saudi-Arabia is producing only a
microscopic trickle of $4,000 barrels
a day. King Ibn Saud is reported to
feel natural impatience for the
royalties which would support him
in the style to which he would like
to grow accustomed. He is said to
have limited that unless the Ameri-
cans did something about it he
would be compelled to consult with
the British. He has been appeased
from time to time by advance royal
ties, totaling a few millions, which
have been paid by the California
Setandard and Texas companies.
Basis for Urgency.
But his attitude is at the bottom
of the peculiar urgency of the Saudi
Arabia problem, as contrasted, for
example, with Oil development in
Alaska, which can be postponed
without danger. Here may be found
the basic reason for the projected
PRO pipeline, a refinery being erect
ed by Arabian American and recent
token shipments by air of 5000
pounds of lease-lend automatic
rifles, ammunition, blow torches and
helmets, and also a boatload of sill
yer coins, valued at 81 1,250,000, which
were minted in Philadelphia and
disembarked at Jidda on the Red
Sea. These are all efforts to save
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that they are virtually nothing
whatever.
The rest of the book consists Of
stories already published. There
are six out OF the 1921 volume.
Monday or Tuesday," and seven
which had magazine publication.
Most of them have acquired a
badly dated sound. Indeed, the
only striking thing about the vol
ume Is its evidence of changing
modes of thought. The Virginia
Woolf who startled the '20s reads
today somewhat like lavender and
old lace, and in some cases even
sounds like some of her own less
felicitous imitators. Take the vol
ume. then, as testament to mu-
tation. For that it will serve, at
any rate.
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HI SuUuTDS MONDAY.
AS early as Monday, Russian
troops were in the suburbs of Sc.
vastopol, and heavy artillery anc
big bombers poured destruction into
the dock area where frenzied Ger.
man troops sought to board what
shipping remained seaworthy fol-
escape across the Black Sea.
The Russian observers declared
that large numbers of troops were
being moved from the west to NEE
the situation on the eastern front
which daily grows more menacing
The nervous Romanians are watch.
ing the growing concentration O.
Red forces in Bessarabia at a point
on the shortest route to Bucharest
The Nazis. attempting to reliev,
some OF the pressure and perhap.
set up countermeasures to NEE
any invasion from the northwest
struck heavily at the Russians neal
the Estonian border and also in ole
Poland near Stanislawow. The Red.
claim the enemy was beaten bacl
after serious losses in both areas.
One long-range blow was strucl
the Germans when Turkey banned
all further exports of chrome to thu
Nazis who are now dependent upor
Greek sources for the metal vita
to the hardening of steel.
On the italian fronts, fighting wa.
inconclusive, although there wer,
some indications that the Nazis art
preparing to fall back north O,
Rome. Leghorn. Venice and Trieste
were heavily bombed during the
week.
New Trouble for Japs.
Fresh trouble for the Japs, who
are learning from time to time what
President Roosevelt meant when he
said there are many roads to Tokyo
Evening star., 1944-04-23
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.

possession OF q. new sailboat, ard 30
on, and get, as we 60 along, sense
the wonder Of family love. The book
will certainly not create any se1sa-
ton, but 1t does deserve respect.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Oldest Democracy Was First to Thwart Hitler

present regent, is expected to be chosen
the nations first President.
Washington Ceremonies
In Washington, Thor Thors, soft
spoken Icelandic Minister, will hold
diplomatic reception on the same day
to mark the formal step of completely
severing the nations ties with Dem
mark.
In 1918, Iceland became a sovereign
state united to Denmark by treaty un-
der which the King of Denmark was
also the King of Iceland. Previously,
Denmark ruled Iceland back as far as
1881 A. D. For hundreds of years be-
fore, the nation was 4 democracy gov
erned by the Althing-"grandmother of
parliaments"-which has existed unin-
terruptedly for more than 1000 years
except for a period between 1900 and
l843.
When the Nazis invaded Denmark in
April, 1910, the Althing decided the
very same day that Iceland should
thereafter steer its own course to avoid
German domination. Exactly a month
later, the British, fearing q NaA coup,
occupied the island. On July Z, 194l,
United States forces, under an agree
ment with the Icelandic government,
undertook protection Of the country.
Since then, Iceland has become the
Allies Gibralter OF the North and its
fisheries have contributed heavily to the
United Nations food supply.
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Tito Calls Germans
Unpredictable Fighters

Yank sergt. Walter Bernstein compiet-
ed one Of the toughest assignments ever
undertaken by . correspondent in this war
when he came out Of Yug0slAvia with the
MarAhal Tito interview. He was the first
Ensiish- speaking correspondent to talk with
the Partisan leader 1t his HEADQUARTERS.
The story Is published through the courtesy
OF Yank, the Army Weekly.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
BY Robert J. Lewis

Back in March, 1899, the worlds
smallest nation became the first to
crack Hitlers knuckles and get away
with it ~.