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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

lava DdlllIl, native OF Russia,
was one of the Tsar's political eXiles
who returned to participate in the
revolution of 1917. Within five years
he was an exile all over again, and
has remained one ever since. He
has written a number of books on
Russia which are distinguished by
their solid factual quality. In his
present volume he considers how
and where the Big Three may fall
out and sees in Russia the most
likely disturber of the future peace
He warns his readers that the
abandoned its pristine principle of
fomenting CommuniStic revolution
on a worldwide scale 1t has only
pretended to do so. Lenin laid down
the principle, he reminds us, in
words which might have come from
the late Hitler-"We have to use any
ruse, lodges, tricks, cunning, unlaW-
full method, concealment, yelling of
truth" Proceeding on this dispense
ton, the Soviets have until recently
pursued seeming policy of live
and-let-live. But now, in Mr.. Dali
Inns view, swollen with victory, they
propose to launch program of ire
mendous expansion, a part of which
will be the virtual forcing of Com
munistic puppet governments on
weaker states. The world, of course,
has already seen this tendency, but
the popular view has been that it
would find no expression beyond
states contiguous to Russia's borders
In Terms of Expansion
BY no means, says Mr.. Dallin.
Russia aims at the world-not rash
ly, not in terms of reckless military
venturing, but in terms of constant
ruthless expansion. Therein, in his
view. lies the germ of the next
world war. Like Hitler, Stain or his
successors will take one step too
many and precipitate conflict
That will happen, he says, as soon
as the other powers begin to view
Russia with fear and consider her
immune to appeasement. In short,
the old program.
LID OOOh Id OSSuplCo Will u dSlllS
in three critical zones of the world
the probable fortunes of the Big
Three within the practicable future.
The zones are Europe, the Middle
East and the Far East In all of
them he sees Russia planning to
extend her present limitations In
opposition to Anglo-American inter-
ests. He emphasizes that her
weapon will be the already familiar
political one; she will not occupy
territories but will be content with
friendly" native governments. The
friendly governments will receive
their orders from Moscow and will
last precisely as long as they obey
If plebiscites are held they will be
distinguished by all the freedom
which now attends an election on
Russian soil.
So Russia May Move In
In Europe, in addition to her long
range drive for political domina-
ton, Mr.. Dallin believes that Russia
will strive for outlets to the ocean
by way of Greece, Yugoslavia or the
Kiel Canal to the end that she may
become great naval poWer-an
indispensable, of course, in a war
against an Anglo-American COM
bination. In the Middle East she
will resume the old struggle with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

way OF his story, may well seek to
set up a soldier government of their
own-or, to be blunt, fascism. He
sees the specter in the air and gets
quite shaky over it. In his novel he
lets it far outweigh any of his human
characters In interest or Importance.
His plot deals with the return of
a girl soldier to find that her fance
has been corrupted by the fascist
idea and is planning to put himself
at the head OF a soldier party. She
rejects the notion-and the fiance,
too, Of course. So do the worthier
veterans. But the possibility re-
mains, as 1t. Col. Henrique is at
pains to point out. In effect,
his book amounts to grave, Be
ware"
1t is previously written, frequently
to the point of near -unintelligibility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
AMERICAN SCENE AND

HEOOO1CEO.
Buried Treasure, by Marion B.
Cothern. (Coward-McCannD The
story Of Americas coal.
Your Forests, by Martha Bensley
Bruere. Gippincott) The story
of Americas timber.
The Golden Hoof, by Winifred
Kupper. (Knopf) History Of sheep
raising in the Southwest.
Lake Ontario, by Arthur Pound
(Bobbs- Merrill.) The latest addi-
ton to this publishers Lake Series
OLD MASTERS.
The Scandal, by Pedro Antonio
Alarcon, translated from the Span
ish by Philip H. Riley and Hubert
James Tunney. (KnopfD
The Civilization of Renaissance
Italy, by Jacob Burkhardt. (Oxforc
University Press)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

IL y " e v Z l, l )
strictly on the
level of def
commercial fic-
ton. The result
is the W e l.
k n o W n hiatus
between the two
schools. 1t ought
to be a better
book or a worse
one.
Inc | n e m e
aforemention e d
is that of the
a ii - excluding
love which a
S e ri us a n d
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

tavus VaSa, who,
in the early 18th
century, set his
country, Swed-
en-, free of Dan
ish domination.
1t is written in
the plain popu-
lar style which
Mr.. Van Loon
m a S t ere d SO
well and, save
that It's text in
C | u d es some
pretty grim &C
ton, could be
read by children
as well as nv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

ing. In sum it
tells us t h a t
humanity may
Just as well give
up. Our species
is ridiculous be-
yond hope, says
Mr.. Koestler,
and anything it
attemps to do is
doomed to ridic-
ulous f a ilu r e.
So let those hg-
ur eS SO C. on
venient to de-
spairing vo-
lutionaries the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Reviewing I he New Books
Can the Big Three Preserve World Peace
Or Will Their Nations Become Divided?
THE BIG THREE
By DaUid Dallin. yale I'm
Uersity Press; $2.75.)
By Mary-Carfer Roberts

More and the date of military into
writer's world affairs
divided, rather than the United Nations
There obviously general opinion that the became allies
accident will find the
Whereas
shucked
The dream of world in disappeared
In the writings Of students of affairs growing DINNER
looking the guessing
present arrangements lead the
They admit
certainly fighting they hold and
that figuring the
AXE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
The American LANGUAGE

By H. L. Mencken. (Knopt;;
So
The fourth edition of H. L. Men
cken's American Language" ap-
peared in 1896, with its emphasis
on the dominance which, in Mr..
Mencken's view, American English
is gaining over British English.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

adults. 1t is hero story, pure and
simple, Gustavus being much of his
time either a hostage or a refugee
with high price on his head, but
indefatigably laboring for his coun-
try's freedom no matter what went
on. A stirring tale and, in this
edition, colorfully illustrated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Home Fires Burnino

By Robert HenriQues. viking
Press; $780,
1t. Col. Robert Henriques, in a
novel which he wrote while the war
was in progress, The Voice of the
Trumpet" permitted himself to ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

rule, Mr.. Dallin sees the other men,
bers of the Big Three, with Britain
Americas Junior partner, and he
considers that Americas past policy
in the Far East, which set prece-
dent in international idealism, may,
backed by the combined impressive
forces of the two, provide a con-
structive plan for future guidance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
he Uncertain Journey

By Oscar Le1Uis. (Knopt; $780,
The theme of this novel is one
which calls for serious literary
treatment. The treatment which the
author has accorded that theme,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

I could be the only American so
deluded. There are also a rather
large number of obvious typo
graphical mistakes for work of
such Importance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19

ticular submersibles, Silversides and
Seawolf, among the early and most
deadly raiders to carry war to the
japanese.
Doolittle got credit for being
among the first to take a look at
the enemy's home island, but many
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Twilight Bar

By Arthur KoeStler. (Macmil-
Ian; So
This new work by Arthur Koestler
is short play and seems to mark
the extreme progress of the erst-
while leftist conscientiously recant-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Are Men Equal?
By Henry Alonzo Myers. Put.
nam; $780,
Reviewed by w. H. HARRISON.

Reviewed by w. H. HARRISON.
The Declaration of Independence
proclaims that "all men are created
equal" The idea is central and in
dispensable to our democratic way of
life, but far too many Americans
seem to regard 1t as mere rhetoric
over which nobody need lose any
sleep. Mr.. Myers book is addressed
to them. In effect, it tells them that
to deny. or neglect the concept OF
equality is to take long step back
ward toward forging the chains of
their own enslavement.
Men are not equal mentally, of
course. Nor are they equal physi-
cally or morally. But Mr.. Myers
makes clear in felicitous and care
fully reasoned prose that the true
measure of human being is not the
deficiencies or excellencies of that
beings mind or body, but his own
sense Of his own significance in
relation TO the society around him.
I'm what matters most to men, this
world has the same import to all; it
teaches each the lesson of his own
infinite worth. And so men who are
equal to the same thing are equal to
each other"
A brief review cannot do justice to
the arguments Mr.. Myers sets forth
to support this thesis. A man Of not
a little distinction in the field of
formal philosophy and a teacher of
English at Cornell he combines
weighty logic with an understanding
of literature to favor us with book
that has a ring of genuine authority
in it. Not everything he says-such
as that poetry may be accepted as
the science" of human values-is
unassailable, but on the whole he
constructs an alright case in behalf
of the "germinal principle" of de-
mocracy.
Mr.. Myers book is as important
and timely as his warning that
unless we prove to the satisfaction
of all that true justice is based on
the equality of men, Hitlerism will
rule the world in spite of Hitler's
downfall" BY his fine thinking and
writing he does much to guard
against that evil possibility.
SiIversides
By Robert TrumbuH (Holt,;
$3.50.
u. S. S. SeowoIf
By Gerold Frank and James
d. Koran, 1Dith J. M. Eckberg
PUTNAM; s2.75.
The Navy has decided all of a
sudden to let us know the facts of
life about submarines. Following
Robert j. Casey's general story, Bat
tie Below" there come across this
desk the exciting tales Of two par
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Best Sellers

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Adventures and Escapes
OF Gustovus Vosu

BIZ Henrik Willen Van Loon.
(Dodd, Mead; $780,
This, the last book written by the
late Hendrix Willem Van Loon, is
the story of hero practically I'M
known to American readers, Gus
Evening star., 1945-02-13

would seem incredible if it were
dramatized by Hollywood. His feat
was reported last September 10 in
an Associated Press dispatch from
the Southwest Pacific.
Boats Brave Batteries.
The citation gives more details:
The pilot, 1t. Harold A. Thompson
of Chicago, was shot down in Wasile
Bay in Morotai Island, between New
Guinea and the Philippines. He was
floating about 200 yards off a we'll
guarded Japanese dock when the
Japs sent a barge out to get him. A
Hellcat lowering above 1t. Thomp-
son sank it, Another plane tried to
reach the pilot, but was driven
of by intense antiaircraft fire.
Then two PIT boats with 1t. Pres
ton in command left their destroyer
escort and tried to zig-zag through
the mined harbor mouth. They were
driven back twice by accurate fire
from shore batteries. Planes then
provided a smoke screen and the
third attempt was successful. FOR
two and half hours the Fl boats
were under fire in the bay, but they
rescued 1t. Thompson. Although
protecting planes had to leave to
reach their carrier before dark and
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Fot Davis Citizens Seek
Speed Limit Reduction

The Fort Davis Citizens Associa-
ton last night acted to request
that traffic speed from Branch and
Alabama avenues S. E., be reduced
from its present limit of 80 miles
an hour to Is miles an hour.
The action followed announce
ment to the group that its request
for a traffic light at Pennsylvania
avenue and Carpenter street Sc
was denied because there is mot
enough cross-trafiic to justify its
installation"
Members discussed the proposed
Anacostia Hospital plan, but tabled
action on It until the next meeting
Because of the small attendance
at last nights meeting, which was
held at the Ryland Methodist
Church, 9ranch avenue and S street
Sc, 1t was also agreed to postpone
nomination and election of officers
until next months meeting Mrs
r. Lawrence Tilley, president, pre-
sided.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
West End Citizens Back
D. {. Suffrage Proposal

A motion favoring the Summers
Capper measure for District suffrage
was passed last night by the West
End Citizens Association, and the
president, Walter F. Wasson, was
appointed to represent the group at
the House Judiciary Subcommittee
hearing at 1890 m. tomorrow. Les
ter H. Steinem presented the mo-
ton.
A committee of three was ap-
pointed to investigate the proposal
that the national stadium be located
between Seventeenth and Twenty
third streets on Constitution ave-
nue. NV. Members of the commit
tee are Lester H. Steinem, Charles
L. Norris and William r. Brown.
Combat America" technicolol
motion picture narrated by Mai
Clark Gable, was shown. The meet.
ing was held in Police Precinct No
at 2o17 K street NV.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
| Scouts to Start
Drive for Paper
On March I

The Nations 100000 Boy Scout.
today stood ready to collect 5000, ,00(
pounds of waste paper in two.
month drive which starts March
under the sponsorship of Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Officially named the Gen. Eisen.
hower-Boy Scout waste paper pro.
gram, the drive was arranged by
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association and will run through
April 30. 1t was inaugurated al
ceremonies this morning in the
Washington Hotel.
]. R. Krug, chairman of the Wal
Production Board; DR.. Ebert K
Fretwell, chief Scout executive OF
the Boy Scouts of America, and
Maj. Gen. Russell L. Maxwell, as.
sistant chief of staff of the Army
representing Gen. Eisenhower, ap-
peared briefly.
+ A medal bearing Gen. Eisenhower
likeness will be awarded to all
Scouts and Cubs collecting 1,00(
pounds of paper, and all Scout
troops and Cub packs collecting an
average of 1000 pounds for each
member will receive a shell case
made of waste paper and returned
to America from European battle
field. Each paper shell case will
bear citation signed by Gen
Eisenhower.
Evening star., 1945-02-13

there was no smoke screen, the
PTS darted back out Of the bay
again without 4 casualty. Large
shells fell within 10 yards of them, >
the citation said.
Brother Awarded Silver Star.
1t. Preston is a son of Ord Pres
ton, president of the Union Trust
Co. His brother, Ord. jr., Marine
Corps officer, was awarded the Sill
yer Star for gallantry in the Guam
campaign. 1t. Arthur Preston's wife
and two baby boys Che has not yet
seen the second one) live at 2117
Bancroft place NV. She is a
daughter of Capt. Lewis B. Mcbride
retired naval officer.
Both of 1t. Preston's grandfathers
were Army officers, Col. Albert w
Preston and Maj. Gen. Arthur Muir
ray. 1t Preston, q Yale graduate
was practicing law here before Pearl
Harbor.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Jops
Continued From First Page.)

Agrihan in the Marianas, 5000; ir
the New Guinea-Solomons area
10000; on Wake, 5000; Marcus
5000; Truk, $4,000, and on Babel
thuap, the largest of the Palau
group, 10000.
On Babelthuap, the Japs are said
stin to have effective antiaircraft
fire. The island is heavily fortified
and is separated from Peleliu, which
the United States holds now, by q
narrow deepwater channel.
On Truk, one of the biggest jap
strongholds in that area, it is be-
lieved that the Japanese are well
supplied and may hold out there fol
q very long time. This aton would
be very difficult to take because the
islands make a circle around large
lagoon, which would have to be en-
tered during any landing operation
By-passed Not Forgotten.
The by-passed troops have moi
been forgotten, but no decision hal
been reached on whether there will
be return to take them or they will
be left to die from lack of support
from the homeland. The spokesman
explained that in many places they
are able to exist only by growing
food roots and that they live ir
about the same state as the native,
before Japanese occupation.
The naval spokesman said that ir
order to use Manila Bay fer any
effective purpose 1t would be neces-
sary to neutralize Corregidor, tn.
large island across the entrance, as
well as the forts guarding the en-.
trance. However, he said he did net
think the Japs had made Corregido,
as hard to take as the United States
had made it before the Japs
seized it.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Lease-lend Equips
French Sea Patrol,
Hense| Tells Hearing
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Lease-lend is equipping and train
ing French naval forces policing
Allied sea lanes in the Mediter-
ranean.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
H. Struve Hensel, reporting this to
a congressional committee today
added that not only have escort
vessels gone to the French through
lease-lend, "but their remaining
combatant vessels have been re-
paired and refltted in our yards"
Mr.. Hensel appeared before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
considering a one-year extension
of the Lease-Lend Act which ex-
pires June 80.
The French now ARE assuming
the operation of bases established
by us in the Mediterranean area"
he said.
Moreover, under lease-lend. mem
bers of their forces have been and
are being trained in techniques, a
knowledge of which is necessary in
order to operate these bases, to
handle the equipment on the escort
craft we have furnished them, and
to operate the patrol planes that we
have supplied them-all to the end
that they may police the sea
lanes that have been assigned to
them and perform necessary escort
duty
Although we may not like to en-
phasize it, the fact remains that
where an escort craft leased to the
French goes down with all hands, it
is that many American lives are
saved"
Mr.. Hensel said all planning for
future military operations lis based
upon the principle of mutual aid,"
adding:
Not to extend the Lease-Lend Act
would require reversal of the
whole principle of military and
naval operations based upon the
concept of mutual aid"
Evening star., 1945-02-13
House Group Studies
Bellevue Association
Heating Cost Protest

The House District Committee to-
day was studying protest signed by
about 500 members of the Bellevue
Citizens Association against boost
In charges for heating gas furnished
to. residents Of the Navy's Bellevue
housing project.
Originally, the protest recited, the
project depended on excess gas pro-
duced at the Districts sewage treat
ment plant, which was piped free to
the housing project under an ar
rangement between the Navy and
the District government.
Bellevue residents had agreed to
pay stipulated charge for utility
services. 1t had been argued, the
protestants recalled, that this was
fair because residents of the Navy's
Chinquapin (Va) housing project
had to pay for gas furnished that
community by Virginia.
Though the Chinquapin project
later was transferred to the Ma
tional Housing Agency, the utility
| charges for Bellevue were not low
cred and there was not the same
reason to spread the gas charges
among residents of the two Navy
housing projects.
On January 27, the protestants
continued, the Navy gave notice
that charges for gas at Bellevue
would have to be increased on a
pro rata basis. 1t was said this was
because the District Sewage Treat
ment Plant was unable to provide
sufficient supply, making it neces-
sary for Bellevue to be connected to
the services of the Washington Gas
Light Co.
Bellevue residents called this "un-
just and arbitrary" contending that
the Navy should absorb the costs
because of savings effected following
the transfer of its Chinquapin prof.
ect to the MIA.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Tales Of Nazis Free
To Walk Streets Brinq
Probe by Senate Unit

Complaints from Arizona that
German prisoners of war roam the
streets and display the Nazi swastiks
will be investigated by the Senate
Military Affairs Committee, Chair
man Thomas said yesterday.
The investigation was demanded
by Senator Mcfarland, Democrat, OF
Arizona, who said the people OF
his State "are not satisfied" with
inquiries made by the Army.
He read to the Senate a letter
from Judge Harvard C. Speakman
Of Phoenix, who asserted that Nazi
prisoners "roam the neighborhoods'
and reported the display of the Nazi
swastika in Chandler, Ariz., by a
truckload of German prisoners. A
const able was prevented from
searching the prisoners, the letter
said.
Prisoner Punished.
After the Senate discussion, the
Public Relations Office of the Papago
Park prisoner of war camp at Phoe-
nix announced that a prisoner Is un-
dergoing military punishment for
displaying a swastika from a camp
truck.
In a formal statement, the camp
said the prisoner admitted display
ing the homemade flag, and added
Prisoners of war may be delib-
erately trying to incite our civilians
to overt action in such instances
which might be used as basis for
retaliation against some of our
American prisoners of war detained
by the Germans.
This headquarters encourages the
prompt notification of any similar
infraction of regulations by pris-
oners of war and further requests
that direct action by the civilians
such as an attempt to actually in
tercept or search prisoner Of war
labor detail not be taken"
Tunnel Story Doubted.
Senator Mcfarland read a half
dozen letters in addition to Judge
Speakman's, and resolution by
the Phoenix Central Labor Council
denouncing as fantastic and highly
improbable" an Army report on the
escape Of Is prisoners of war from
the Papago Park camp on Deeem-
Der "a.
This resolution said newspapers
reported that Col. William A. Hol-
den, commander of the camp, had
said 200-foot tunnel bored through
rock was the means through which
the prisoners escaped.
The council said its members who
helped construct the camp and are
familiar with the formation of rock
in the area branded this statement
as fantastic and highly improbable"
Judge Speakman's letter said that
escapes of German prisoners "are
not escapes, the Germans just walk
off from the job He added:
They roam the neighborhoods,
steal from the people in the vicinity,
pilfer houses where there is no one
at home. They seem to do so at
will"