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ding the press to enter the place
was lifted by Gen. Chang Kai-shek's
personal order. He confirms the re-
ports which have previously been
written by Communist sympathizers.
The Reds are bringing a program of
education and general betterment
to the peasants, they are fighting the
japanese, they are the true patriots
of China, and the national govern
ment, in thwarting them, has been
dangerously close, in fact, If not in
intention, to the collaborators of the
Western nations.
Mr.. Stein goes on to say that the
Communists must not be mistaken
for democrats They aim at COM
plete communism as soon as possible,
he says. At present they are tolerat-
ing private enterprise, but only be-
cause they cannot get along with
out 1t.
He repeats the familiar charge
that Chang Kai-shek has kept his
armies out of the war with Japan
for the purpose of having them in
tact to use against the Red troops
as soon as the Japanese withdraw.
With civil war in China now re-
ported raging, this indictment is in
teresting. Mr.. Stein also asserts
that Gen. Stilwell was dismissed
because he urged the generalissimo
to come to compromise with the
Communist elements.
He ends by reminding his Ameri-
can readers that there are today two
very real Chinas and that our cru
cially important role in the Far East
is to keep these two in harmony.
Failing that, he sees clear disaster
ahead of us.
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therefore, when Authari died of the
plague, two years after they were
married, that the young Queen
should select ago" to share her
throne. The story revolves around
the government, battles and trou-
bles of Lombardy under the rule of
Theudelinda and her two husbands.
Famous historical characters such
as Pope Gregory the Great and the
Irish monk Columbian fit across
the pages.
Mrs. Gay has undertaken the
double task of interpreting and re-
porting the Lombard contribution
to Italy as well as the love story of
her heroine, Theudelinda. The pro-
fusion of characters and the wealth
Of detail on Lombard customs,
equipment and beliefs tend some
what to overwhelm the romance
of the Bavarian redhead. Never
theless this story of the invaders,
whom the beaten Romans called
"the unspeakables," has color, ex-
citement, brutality and pageantry to
attract the interest of the lover Of
historical novels,
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lawyer, has two women in his life
his dull wife Lucille and his brilliant
mistress Daisy. Daisy has two men
in hers-the domineering Dan and
the forlorn and gentle Pete who
needs what is called "mothering. !"
The only one Of the four whose posi-
ton is defensible would seem to be
Lucille, and Lucille gets decidedly the
worst of the bargain. The others
all come out happy, but she remains
neglected and despised.
There is nothing to the book ex-
cept the working out of the emo
tional tangle. As there is a large
public which finds emotional tangles
exquisitely interesting, the work will
probably be popular. To me it is not
interesting, however, because none
Of the people seem worth getting
interested in. AL except Lucille are
supposed to be extraordinarily intel
ligent and gifted, but we see nothing
of them except in their relations to
one another, where they are simply
messy.
I find Daisy herself peculiarly
hard to believe in. Talented and
beautiful, she works her way to
public success In art, while in her
private life, from the age Of "a to
80, she is content to be the back
street friend of man who will never
marry her. And this, we are told,
without any great love for Dan
simply from affection and cam
aradie. Miss Janeway presumably
knows what she wants to tell her
readers. But she does not know how
to make her readers believe it.
NC R
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interest. For instance. his account
of the American landing on the
Normandy coast on D day and his
opposition of the tremendous prob
LENS involved in getting and main
tanning foothold there is the clear
est and most absorbing that / have
read.
The book also contains a full ac-
count of the operations of the IA
nous Red Ball Express, that fleet of
more than 5000 trucks which kept
Gen. Eisenhower rapidly-advanc-
ing armies supplied in the days be-
fore the French rail lines, destroyed
by the retreating Germans, could be
put into operation.
This volume can be highly recon-
mended not only as an official
source-book on the supply problems
involved in the European war, but
also as an interesting history of the
part played in the late conflict by
the men behind the guns"
Evening star., 1945-11-04
Among Z
the Authors
By Carolyn Cogeins

Practically every man in the
audience cried when the film was
run of for Gwen Bristow's "Tomor-
row Is Forever" before some So
phisticated publishers. The picture
will open in another week. Appar-
emily Claudette Colbert and Orson
Welles have outdone themselves,
along with the director and script
writers, who had endless opportuni-
ties for cliches but resisted them.
1t Is not going to be an easy picture
for people to see who have lost
family or have wounded ones in
this war, but it will probably be an
excellent reminder for some of those
who have not endured casualties
that war is hell and that peace is
worth making. This is a love story
in a postwar setting, not a war pic
ture.
Hilda Livingston from Grosset g.
Dunlap, the publisher which brought
out a film version as well as a re-
print of Gwen Bristow's book, re-
marked that here was a good book
Hollywood had improved.
Elizabeth Janeway is just as good
looking as her pictures would lead
you to believe. She is the author
of Daisy Kenyon and the party
for her last week at the Rainbow
Room, Rockefeller Center in New
York, was a lavish one. The lights
of the city always make this a
glamorous spot. The view is fam
tastically fairylike. Inside, Eliza
beth Janeway was bit of glamour
herself. Her black, smooth hair and
very white skin were set off by a
black dress revealing enough to be
striking.
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New Books

Journey UNDERGROUND. David Prosser.
November g.
The Friendly Persuasion, Jessamyn West,
Noyember 8.
The Devil in the Bush, Matthew Head,
November g.
Where My Love Sleeps, Clifford Dowdey.
November s.
The Petty Pace, Mary Petty, Noveu1.
Der s.
Tomorrow's Another Day. W. r. Bur-
nett, November 8.
The Arab Island. Freya Stark. Novem-
Der s.
Woman at Bay, George Harmon Coke.
November g.
Tranquility. TranQuillity Revisited,
Tranquility Regained. Col. Harold p. Shell
don, November T.
:, A Naturalist in Cuba, Thomas Barbour.
November 8.
My. Twenty-Five Years in China, John B.
rye Had 1T, Col. Beirne Lay. tr.. No
vemh Der T.
A. Nation of Nations, Louis Adamic, No
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pattern which has been used by
many other authors of war fiction.
He gives us a Liberator crew,
men long used to working together.
They start on their 25th mission.
Through the mind of the navigator,
we go into the past of the crew
members, learning their experiences
in their training, acquiring fairly
rounded picture of each one. Then
the ship runs into trouble, on this,
her crucial mission and the book
has the tragic ending which, by
now, is also part of the pattern.
One thinks of valley in the Sky
and Limit of Darkness" as two
other novels which handled this
method very we'll.
Mr.. Allen is talented and brings
his story off effectively. He may
we'll become a writer of something
more than promise.
Evening star., 1945-11-04
You and |
By MUon BRING. fFarrar &
Rinehart:: S3.00.l

The theme of this novel is simply
the quest of youth, carried out with
great vitality and much of the shine
of youth itself. The best thing which
I can say of it-and have no idea
of saying anything not goods that
it does not lose its theme in its story,
does not obscure its quality in its
plots details.
1t gives us two children living in
New Mexico in the early years of the
century, a boy and a girl who are
reared as brother and sister, although
they are not related When they are
on the verge of adolescence accident
breaks up their idyllically happy
home and they are shipped off to
different households of relatives
The girl goes to comparative luxury
in New York City, the boy to pic
turesque and not very respectable
poverty in Butte, Mont.
From that time, the children fol-
low their own destinies as fate deals
them their cards But always they
remember their childhood. The boy
roams over the country, the girl
moves among New York's famous
social and artistic personalities. They
meet and separate. Only when their
youth is about over, only when they
have spent most of its gold, do they
realize that their childhood's illusion
is the best thing they have ever
known. Thus Mr.. BRING, unlike
many authors who give us novels be-
ginning with childhood only to go
astray when their characters reach
maturity, relates the conclusion of
his book to its beginning. The vivid
ness, the purity and the beauty of the
first of life, he says, are the clue
to the rest of it.
1t is a good performance. Some
of the incidental characterised
whom there is a large cast-Seem at
times to come out of stock, as do
some of the situations. But the
thing as a whole keeps its validity
1t is one of the best things Mr.
| BRING has done.
Evening star., 1945-11-04
My Woyword Parent
By Elisabeth Cobb.
Nor~;JI. 80 En

6y EttSQOeLn COCO. fbOOOS-
Merrill; $2.50.)
Elisabeth Cobb is the daughter Of
the late Irwin S. Cobb. When her
father died she felt that she wanted
to put her concept Of him into some
lasting form. This book is the result
of that wish.
In the main, the volume is made
up of memories following roughly
a chronological order, but preced-
ing this material there is the daugh-
ter's idea Of what her fathers
youth must have been and of what
kind Of boy and young man her
hayward parent" was. Like every
child who has become bemused with
a parents personality, she had
thought good deal about the early
years of his existence. And like
many children who grow up under
the spell Of vivid parents charm
she had come to realize that there
was an element of legend in the
Irwin Cobb who was known to every
one as the humorist. A child's in
tuition on this point, held in re-
straint during the years of hel
fathers life, finds its expression
in the book which she has now
written about him.
She remembers him as gay ano
delightful-she thinks that he was
actually moody and subject to tenn
peramental unhappiness. In the
story Of his youth, which he wrote
so uproariously. she reads tale OF
a sensitive and highly-strung young
man forced to give up hope of higher
education in order to support the
women of his family-Southern
ladies who could not be permitted
to work. In his later extravagances
and eccentricities, she sees the fer
ment of spirit uprooted from its
natural soil, humorist making copy
of his discontents. In his anti
New Deal political activity, she sees
the pride of the self-made man in
the world in which he has succeeded
and an unwillingness to admit that
that world might change.
Her narrative, however, is chiefly
remarkable in that it has genuine.
ly the quality of grief. Its analysis
is done in tenderness. It is truly ar
elegaic work. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-11-04

I have seen have
had a heavy
load of Com
munist propa-
ganda piled on
their war story.
They informed
the reader that
he Russians
W ere winning
not because they
were brave or
skillful, but be-
cause they were
Communists. So
if Americans are
used to think
Evening star., 1945-11-04
Bubu of Montpornosse

By Charles-Louis Philippe
With a preface By T. S. Eliot.
(Aualon; s3.J
This novel was first published in
1900. Its author, Frenchman not
much known outside his own coun-
try, died shortly afterward. T. S.
Eliot, in the preface which he has
contributed to the new edition of
the old work, says of him that he
was akin to Dickens, though the
comparison is between very great
novelist and very limited one" !"
Philippe, he continues, has "an
intense pity for the humble and op-
pressed . a pity which, as in
Dickens and Dostoivesky both,
trembles on the edge of the maud
lin" The statement is excellently
designed to prepare the reader of
'Bubu of Montparnasse" for what
is to come.
1t is very simple story of typical
Partisan slum dwellers. Berthe, a
young working girl, leaves her home
to live with Bubu, a young man too
proud and savage to work. She be-
comes prostitute, falls ill, would
return to a decent life, but is pre-
vented by Bubu. That is all there
is to the plot.
The merit of the work lies in its
extremely delicate and lifelike char
acterization. BY blending banality
with Berthe's pathos, by coloring
Bubu's corruption with pride and
love of freedom, by showing how it
was possible for the two of them to
love even in their excessively sordid
existence, Philippe seasons the
"maudlin" element of his work with
unmistakable reality. There is a
slender but sturdy quality of life
in his book which, one feels, may
make it last even more decades
Than II hoe
Evening star., 1945-11-04
The Life of the Heart
By Frances WinWar. (Harpers,
90

By Frances WtnUar. (HarperS;
$3.)
Since this life of George Sand
brings forward no new biographi-
cal material and does not offer any
fresh Interpretation of its subject,
one may well wonder what may be
it's occasion. The only answer I
can make IS that it tells its story
very inter- tingly. 1t is good
driving narrative. 1t is not a full
biography nor a profound one, but
it is, beyond doubt, a very we'll
told tale. Frances Winwar says that
George was her own best novel and
apparently she has set out to write
that novel herself. She has not
done fictionized version of Georges
life, but she has come as near to it
as is possible.
Her enthusiasm for her subject
has obviously been tremendous and
it has inspired her to talk about
George rather than to let George
come to life. She stands between
us and the novelist all the time
expounding, explaining, urging. She
delivers a lecture on Sand, an il
lustrated lecture, to be sure, but H.
lustrated only with stills. We see
George always at a distance and
we do not get any connected pic
lures of her career or development.
But we do have some vivid enter
tainment.
It is, however, entertainment of
a rather superficial variety. 1t rests
on a retelling of the better-known
episodes of Georges emotional life
her break with her husband, the
De Musset affair, the Chopin liai-
son-held together with passages of
mere generalities. And it is done
without irony or analytical depth.
Yet George, as the avatar of Ro-
manticism, must be viewed with
irony today and George, as per-
son, requires profound psychological
understanding Merely to describe
her amours is not to get at her
identity.
Nor is Miss Winwar any better in
her evaluation of Georges work as
novelist, which she disposes of
again with generalities, though en-
Enthusiastically.
It is to be regretted indeed that
so much enthusiasm has gone to
produce so incomplete work.
Evening star., 1945-11-04

ing OF Russians konstantine Simonov.
as political creatures "a hours a day
every day of the year it is the Rus
slams own fault. That is the way
they have been describing them
selves to us.
All this is inspired by the circum-
stance that in the whole of Kon-
stantine Simonov's rather long
novel on the defense of Stalingrad
there is no political stuflng. There
is no political talk at all, either by
the author or by the characters.
1t is novel about soldiers fighting,
and it reads as if it were soldiers
anywhere. The Russians would
probably be surprised to know what
relief such a work constitutes.
Fine Human Picture.
The title comes from the pattern
of the book. The story begins with
a division of veteran troops going
into Stalingrad in September, 1912,
and reports their life. by day and
night up to the beginning of the
great counteroffensive in November.
They engage in that species of street
fighting which made the siege
unique. Shortly after their entry
they take three apartment houses
fronting on a square, an important
sector of the front line"
BY day the Germans attack, put
ting their position in jeopardy.
BY night they counterattack.
They are increasingly subjected to
sniping, shelling and bombing,
their numbers dwindle under the
attrition, the size of the division
becomes less than that of a regi-
ment-but they hold. And while
they hold we get a fine human pic
ture of the different individuals,
plain men and good soldiers, dog
gedly sweating it out.
Shown as people with interests
and emotions comparable to our
own, without benefit of party ora
tory, the Russians appear normal
and ikable. The pose of being
different and superior, which is the
hallmark of the work of the party
propaganda, is grateful by its alb
sence. 1t is to be hoped that more
books like this one are brought to
us-and soon. Almost any disin-
terested American could have told
the Russians these many years past
that their best propaganda would
be none, that their worst enemies
were their too-loud friends. A book
like days and Nights" is real, and
has the advantage of reality. No
one would doubt it. On the other
hand the fate of those who protest
too much is notorious.
Evening star., 1945-11-04
The Newspaper: Its
Making and Meaning
By Members OF the Staf OF the
NetD York Times. fCh1rles
Scribner's Sons: ST.
ROBERT ]. LEWIS.

WGU XOTE IIHtGS. tCHUTtSS
Scribner's Sons: ST.
Reviewed by
ROBERT j. LEWIS.
In any ones list Of the worlds
great newspapers, the New York
Times deserves lofty place. Many
working newspapermen believe it is
incomparably the Nations greatest
Probably without paral-
lei are the sweep Of its coverage,
the size and character Of It's staff,
and its magnificent organization as
an instrument for the ptlrveyance
Of this by-product and bulwark of
democracy we call news.
At time when the gloom Of
censorship and exclusion has settled
over wide areas Of the earth to the
accompaniment of various excuses
in the wake of war, and when even
democratic countries appear ur-
convinced that freedom to gather
and write news is an indivisible
concomitant Of peace and justice
in an orderly world, 1t Is heartening
that the function Of the newspaper
Is so generally understood by the
people of our own country.
Not so well understood, however,
are the massive techniques by which
great newspapers are written, edited
and produced, or the philosophic
concepts which guide the men who
mold and produce them. For that
reason, this volume is timely and
significant. It explains the system,
methods and organization of the
New York Times and deals with
universal newspaper practice. But
its greatest Importance lies in the
revealing insight it offers into the
essential spirit which animates
many great newspapers in our
democracy.
This book is a collection Of lee
lures delivered early this year before
a selected group of New York public
school teachers at meetings ar
ranged in cooperation with the
New York City Board Of Education
Contributors are the newspapers
publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger,
and IL staff members whose work
has added much to illumine the
pages of the Times and build and
sustain its prestige.
Edwin L. James, managing editor,
deals with the organization of the
newspaper; Lester Markell, Sunday
editor, discusses Interpretation Of
the news and the Sunday paper, and
Mr.. SulzSerger assays the news
papers role in the community.
Discussions on gathering the news
are contributed by Arthur Krock.
chief Washington correspondent:
Turner Catledge, Anne O'Hare Nc
Cormick and Foster HALEY. The
reporters job is interpreted by
James B. Reston and Frank S.
Adams. To Hanson Baldwin and
Brooks Atkinson went the un-
doubted pleasure of explaining the
work of the newspaper specialist.
Neil MacNeil, assistant night man
aging editor, outlines how news is
presented.
The end result is a coherent,
fascinating story of the making of
newspaper and its meaning to
the people of democracy. 1t is
thus manual and a touchstone
(which can be read by newspaper
men and others with equal profit.
Evening star., 1945-11-04
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Evening star., 1945-11-04

from TIE jacket UeS1gn OF
"Heritage OF Fire." the story
OF Richard Wagner's grand
daughter ,oho dared to escape
to freedom.
ent book, which is the life story
of Wagner's granddaughter. we
have a straight definite record Of
the late Fuhrer's connection with
the Wagner family from the first
meeting until 1941. 1t is utterly
fascinating-one of the most inter-
esting books about the dictator
which I have ever read.
Friedelind Wagner was born in
1918, the daughter of Siegfried Wag-
ner and his English wife. Hitler
was one Of her first memories. Her
mother came under the Fuhrer's
influence early in his career and
opened her home and her purse to
him. Friedelind relates that it was
a commonplace in her childhood for
Wolf" as they called him, to come
late at night to the house and keep
them up while he told terrifying
stories of the narrow escapes which
he had from death at the hands of
his enemies, Even the putsch of
1923 did not break Frau Wagner's
infatuation. She sent Hitler fire.
quent gifts while he was a prisoner.
Her husband did not share her en-
thusiasm and hated anti-Semit-
ism, as quoted letter of his demon
strates.
Friendship With Wagners.
With his attainment of the die
tatorship Hitler made sensational
descents on Bayreuth at every
festival-as the world knows. His
friendship with the Wagner family
was one of his prides. The children
and Frau Wagner were frequently
entertained at the Chancellory.
Friedelind grew up accustomed to
the idea that, if she wanted any
thing badly, she could appeal to
Wolf" as they still called him,
and the request would be honored.
The relationship was like that of a
kindly uncle.
Along with this story of informal
Hitlerian appearances, goes that of
the Wagnerian festivals. In the
days of Siegfried, as Friedelind
tells it, the performances were con-
Quoted in a spirit Of pure devotion.
But Siegfried died in 1880. With
Hitler's ascendency the shadow of
Naziism fell on the occasions and
they became nightmares of quar-
reling and treachery. Frau Wag-
ner was an inefficient manager
and the Nazi grafters moved in.
Jewish artists were in constant ter
ror. Backstage comedy mingles
with political tragedy in this Sec
ton Of the story, the more tragic
in that it involves some of the
greatest musical artists of the world.
Also making an integral part Of
the book is the story of Friedelind
herself. 1t is the framework on
which the rest of the narrative
depends and perhaps it is unkind
to rate it as of less interest, but
one does anyway. It is the story
of the ugly duckling child, the
little girl who added to her homeli-
ness the handicap of tactless hon.
esty and SO was always in i'll favor,
Her unpopularity drove her to with
draw from the family circle and
her honesty made her gradually
come to see Uncle Wolf" objec-
lively, with the result that when
war broke out she fed Germany
The Toscanninis befriended her and
helped her escape to Buenos Aires
She is now in the United States.
Her book is must for entertain.
ment. It is one of the things that
you will not want to put down.
Evening star., 1945-11-04

~ " III " q ! u y 10
marry the war
rior king Au-
t h ari, in tn e
9Th cen t u y
AID. a
Authari sent
his best friend
Agilulf
Of Turin - to
bring her to him
and during their
dangerous jour-
ney back to the
Lombard capital
at Pavia the pair
fell In love. 1t
NJ q M f,,ral