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can airbase in China, recaptured
by Chinese, seventh to be reUon.
Tokyo radio hints Japan is recep-
tive to peace offer. Japan told in
Big Three ultimatum to surrender
now or face complete destruction.
Terms call. for overthrow of mill
tary. occupation of unspecifled
areas by Allied troops, limitation OF
Jap sovereignty to Honshu, Hokka-
lido, Kyushu, Shikoku and some
small islands; disarmament of all
troops, dismantling of all war in
dustries and other restrictions.
Friday: Tokyo radio says Japan
has rejected surrender demand.
which, incidentally, does not call
for removal of Emperor. Japs still
hope for disunity among Allies.
Blunt reply from American goth Air
Force to Japanese refusal to quit
is specifying of next II cities to be
bombed. Populations totaling 100000
warned to fee before raids. Chinese
pick up another former United
States airbase at Yangso. Stimson
hints of difficulties in arriving at
Big Three plan to govern Germany.
Timetable upset by Churchill de-
feat.
Saturday: Jap battleship Hyuga,
converted to serve as half-carrier,
nalf-battlesnip, sunk during 1900
plane raid on Inland Sea bases and
other objectiveS. Planes shoot down
scores of Jap fighters rising in vain
effort to protect remainder of fleet.
Harbors and manufacturing centers
on Shikoku Island blasted. All of
Jap battleships now sunk or dam
aged. United States losses in two
days amount to 40 planes, British
IL Gen. Minami, head of Politi-
cal Association of Great Japan. re-
jects Allied ultimatum to surrender.
Jap press laughs off surrender terms
but Jap radio can't laugh off air
raids, declaring Japan is practically
helpless.
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Review
Continued From Page CID

bombs from B-29s; results, excel
lent" United States 9Th Division
captures Jap stronghold in Northern
Luzon. Chinese tighten grip on
Kweilin airfield. American troops
arrest 10000 as every house in
American zone in Germany is
searched for weapons and war
criminals. Many of captured are
wanted SIS men. Truman re-
ported winning major concessions
from Stain. Disorder breaks out
at Petain trial as 89-year-old mar
shall claims he was preparing road
to liberation while apparently CO.
operating with Nazis. Connally
urges decisive vote accepting
Charter.
Tuesday: More than 1000 carrier
based and land plans pound Japan,
centering largely on Kure naval
base. where enemy feet is believed
hard hit. Five war plants in Ma
goya Osaka area hit by 1000 tons
of bombs. Paramushiro shelled by
task force. Chichi Jima Shelled by
three American subs. Allies wipe
out 1000 Japs attempting TO nee
Burma. japanese envoy to Berlin
expected to urge surrender when
he reaches Tokyo. Big Three re-
cess meeting to permit Churchill TO
return to London to learn OF election
results. Reynaud accuses both
Petain and King Leopold of treach-
erv. Senators delay action on re-
vised GI Bill of Rights until after
congressional recess.
Wednesday: Halsey's Sd Fleet
bombards Kanagawa on east side OF
Tokyo Bay and task force OF light
units shells Kushimoto seaplane
base on Honshu. Checkup of yes
terday's raid on Kure reveals two
battleships, two carriers and three
cruisers damaged by United States
planes. Three more refinerles hit
by Super Forts-Mitsubishi, Ha-
wanna and Asaishi plants being
bombed near Tokyo. Chinese
troops break into Yangso. former
United States airbase lost to Japs.
jap dead in Burma trap sWelled to
900. Halsey says preparation now
made for final plunge to heart OF
Japan. Petain declines to comment
on message to Hitler congratulatlng
him on successes. Gen. Malin Craig
Army Chief of Staff from October
9. 1895, to August 81, 1899, dies at
Walter Reed Hospital.
Thursday: Election results show
Churchill party defeated, to l. oy
Laborites in first vote in 10 years
Churchill resigns; Deputy Prime
Minister Attlee, head of Labor
party, called to folan new govern
ment. Many leaders in ministry
including Beveridge, Bracken
Griggs, Amery, Law, Macmillan
Somervell and ore-Belisha, de-
feated. Churchill and Eden wir
seats in Parliament. Omuta, Mat
suyarna and Tokuyama. Jap chemi-
cal centers, hit by $50 Super Forts
dropping 1900 tons of bombs. Gen
Devers, commander of Army ground
forces, declares single, powerful heavy
blow planned to knock Japan out
of war. Aussies gain miles, comb
Balikpapan jungles for Japs. Japs
claim repulse of Yank landing off
Malaga. Namyung, former Ameri-
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Book Reviews in Brief
ECONOMICS.
,e Bopey of Economic Maturity

The Bogey of Economic Maturity,
by George Terborgh. MACHINERY
and Allied Products Instituteo An
attack on the economic theory that
our mature development demands
taxation of savings and deficit
spending. The author formerly
with Brookings Institution.
The Theory and Practice of Earn
ing a Living, by John F. Wharton.
(Simon g. Shuster) A practical
guide for the ordinary person in
business who wants to do better
than he is doing, or for the person
with an idea for entering the
business world but with no expert
ence. Probably will be a best
seller.
CANADIAN FUTURE.
Left Turn, Canada, by M. j. Cold
we'll. Duell, Sloan & Pearce;
s2.75.) A survey of the aims OF the
cooperative Commonwealth Fed
Grafton for postwar years. BY the
federation leader.
BUSINESS.
MANAGEMENT at the Bargaining
Table, by Lee H. Hill and Charles
R. Hook, jr. (McGraw-HlHo A
book on the techniques of collective
bargaining for business men.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
Everything Rustles
By Mannir Walker. (Dodd
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Mead. $500
Wartime Washington still is wait
ing for its serious novelist. To date,
the fiction writer's who have used it
as scene for their stories are about
unanimous in regarding it as funny.
Whether there is anything beyond
mere coincidence in this, leave to
you. Anyway, the present book is
a worthy addition to the list. 1t is
nearer burlesque than straight hu-
NOR. To make the condition more
Illuminating, its author, Mannix
Walker, is Washingtonian himself
and such a Washingtonian as can
honestly lay claim to the serene ad-
jective old" He is only 40, but
his family has been resident in the
Capital for five generations.
His novel gets it's title from verse
of SophocleS which is to the effect
that, when you are scared, every
thing rustles" 1t has to do with the
adventures of a Boston doWager,
Mrs Agatha Dowell, who comes to
Washington to catch the spies who,
she believes, are endangering the
war effort. A formidable lady, she
moves freely in cave dwelling and
official society, taking notes on Sc
ditiouS utteranceS and Spotting SuS-
piciouS characters. Excitement fol-
lows her progress, as when she starts
panic in the Shoreham or engages
in some mitigating while dogging
the footsteps of an OCD official
across Taft Bridge aided by an In
dian pickpocket named Little Buff
falo. Sometimes she is funny, some
times she is not. BY and by she
justifies her troublesome advent in
Capital society.
1t is probable that Washington
mans will read the book not so much
to follow her adventures, however,
as to give themselves a new game
of guess who" For, while Mr.
Walker states that all characters in
the book with the exception of one
are imaginary, it seems likely that
his portraits of local figures have at
least the quality of the composite
photograph. Their properties, if not
themselves, may be real. The one
exception, incidentally, is Miss
Eleanor Wells, who runs gift shop
in Georgetown. Mr.. Walker calls
her by name and describes her shop
minutely.
He is the son of the late Ernest
G. Walker, a well-known Washing
ton correspondent. who at one time
headed the local bureau of the Bos-
ton Herald This is his second novel;
his first, Count on Two Days" also
dealt with the adventures of Agatha
He Is a graduate of Harvard, where
he completed his course in three
years; he worked for year as a re-
porter for the Washington Post; he
was for time in the career service
of the State Department, but re-
signed to start his own preparatory
school for foreign service He now
is back in the Government, his
school being suspended for the du-
ration. His present job is that OF
economic analyst, an expert, pre-
sumably," he says, on South Africa
in the British Empire unit of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
Constoncio Herself
By Margaret Widdemer. Ear
rar d Rinehdrt, S2.)

By margaret WlG0emeT. tFd ar
rar e. Rinehdrt;; $2J
A novel obviously written to DEM
onstrate a thesis, this is not the
most absorbing tale in the world,
but it is competent. 1t is the story
of a girl who grows up in priVi-
legged family and becomes engaged
to a professor of genetics, only to
learn on the eve of her wedding that
she is an adopted child and quite
probably of degenerate stock. Seeing
that the professor is discouraged
by the outlook, she marries young
man who insists that he loves her
anyway-just for herself, if you
please. Then it turns out she is good
genetic risk after all, and the pro-
fessor would like to have her back
But by that time she has decided
that she prefers love uncomplicated
by caution. So she stays with the
you yourself husband. And all
is well.
1t is hard to see why any one
would take the time to write all
that down, but beyond that there
is no objection to it in the world
George AIDE, I think, wrote the
immortal book review when he
summed up something in six words
"All right, but what of it?"
. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
The PeephoIe
OF the Present
By Samuel Roth. (PhiloSophi-
cal Book Club, S3.75)
Reviewed by
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.

FRANClS r. DOUGLAS.
The reviewer who approaches this
book encounters a sort of mo
Hunting" sign in the preface by Sir
Arthur Eddington. He predicts the
book will live to exert a deep in
fluence on the thinking of the
future.
Once past that warning to hunt
ers, the Rothian world one encount-
ers is, at first, world of familiar
sights and sounds. Observation, he
says, truly gives us not only the
size and shape, but also the nature
of the world.
Space should not trouble us. 1t is
as concrete as earth, air and water,
and is the fourth, final and in
closing formation of the world
What is space? 1t Is really con-
sciousness. Space and time are the
same thing.
Mr.. Roth erects q substantial
boundary around his universe, but
at the gate he. does not drive home
the bolt with real finality. Beyond
space is nothing. But, he says
nothing is just the alter-ego OF
something.
The peephole of the present Is
the tiny space in the stream of con-
sciousness between the past, on the
one hand, and, on the other, the
future, which again becomes the
darkness of the past.
To build up his case for this Mr.
Roth turns to dreams to demon
strate that the past and the future
are part Of the present conscious
ness. His demonstration appears
unnecessary in the light Of his other
findings. He might as well have
stood on his dictum that the alb
sence Of proof can be important
toward establishing a truth.
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The Monchu Empress
By Bluebell M. Hunter. (

By BluebeH M. Hunter. (Dtdl
Press; S275J
Reviewed by MARGARET CHILD.
Fiction based on fact often makes
interesting reading, and Bluebell
Hunters "Manchu Empress" is a
happy example of the chance.
The passing of monarchy in
China occurred four years after the
death of the Empress Tzu Hsi in
1908. That alone is a tribute to
her power. for it was change that
would have come about many years
earlier had less strong hand ruled.
During the minority of her son,
and after his murder and that OF his
successor, the avaricious Tzu Hsi
dominated her co-regent. held back
the economic and artistic inflltra-
tions of the outside world and
crushed rebellion within the king
dom. With her laScivious beauty
the Manchu Empress ruled men as
easily as she did an empire. Where
it failed bribery and murder sue
ceeded.
From descendants of court Off
cials, original Chinese records and
biographies of Tzu Hsi, Mrs. Hunter
has gathered endless colorful de-
tails of the customs, costumes and
furnishings of 10th century court
life in the forbidden city. These
she has so skillfully woven into
the background of Tzu Hsi's in
trigues that reading the "Manchu
Empress" is like peering into the
keyhole of a door to China's past
Ruthless women of destiny risen
from nonentity of power are always
fascinating subject matter. If the
story of the Manchu Empress lacks
some of the fire and dash of those
of Catherine the Great, Dubarry
Amber St. Claire and others of
their ilk, it is nonetheless enjoy
able reading.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
John DooIey:
Confederate Soldier

Edited By Joseph T. Durkin,
S. J. (GeorgetoWn University
Press; So
Reviewed by CASPAR NAMES.
John Dooley was CT Joe of the
Confederate Army who wrote down
what he saw, did and thought while
in action. His subsequent War Jour-
nal gives living picture of the Civil
War as seen by soldier in the ranks
His narrative presents many SINH
larities in feelings and general ap-
proach to that of the contemporary
American serviceman. Dooley re-
cords the fears, difficulties, humor
and stanchness that have combined
to make up the American Army man
"Oh, how scared I felt. If
could only stay out of that fight
with honor how gladly would have
done so. But I was today to smell
gunpowder for the first time on a
field of battle" So he tells us in
the journal as he goes into the Bat
tie of Groveton on August %, 1862
He also tells us how, just as he was
preparing to run for safety on an
other occasion, an officer clapped
him on the back, saying, "Hurrah
for you. You are one of the lst
Virginia. I know you'll stand by us
to the last" Writing dryly what
else could he do under the circum-
stances, Dooley stated, Was to run
and prove myself a coward? No sir I!
So l just laid down with the others
who were making last stand, ly-
ing"
The American soldiers sense OF
humor was present then as today
They played jokes on each other
used puns that were probably very
funny then though rather hazy to-
day and twisted unpleasant mo-
ments into laughable incidents
They amused themselves by singing
such camp songs as Nelly Was q
Lady" Come to de OF Gum Tree
and Sound, Sound de Banjo
We get ghmpses of Lee and Stone
wall jackson among their soldiers
and of the deep affection the mer
had for them. Dooley reveals
sometimes in prose that sings into
poetry, life in the fields, in camp
and in prison. His urbane manner
and well-balanced viewpoint never
leave him, even in his darkest
moments.
John E. Dooley left Georgetown
University after his freshman veal
to enter the Confederate Army. Hi,
father, John Dooley of Richmond
Va, and his older brother, James
Dooley, had previously entered the
service, both serving in the lst Vir-
ginia Infantry though neither was 6
member when Dooley was in it. He
saw action in that regiment anC
others until July 3, 1868, when he
was taken prisoner of war at GettyS-
burg.
Father Durkin, a professor of his
tory at Georgetown University, is tc
be congratulated for the mastery
way in which he has edited the
book. His notes are not only in
formative but entertaining in them
selves. His arrangement Of material
difficult task at best, has been &C
complished with circumspection and
understanding.
There is a short but illuminating
foreword by Douglas Southall Free
man, author of Lees LieutenantS. u
John Dooley, Confederate Sol
dier," is a must book for all inter-
ested in the human side of the Civil
War.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
What Should Be Done With the Germans
And Other Perp|exing Problems
BONES OF CONTENTION

By Lord Vansittart. (Knopt;
S275J
Reviewed by JOSEPH H. BAIRD.
During the last few years in Eng
land the word "vanSittartism' has
become, in public understanding If
not in the dictionary, common
noun. 1t means a hard, realistic
policy dedicated to the certainty
that Germany never again shall be
able to kindle the fires of war in
Europe.
AS Permanent Undersecretary OF
the British Foreign Office from 1880
to 1898, Lord Vansittart, a career
diplomat, was in a most advanta-
geous position to see the political and
military moves-many OF them un-
known to the public-of that chaotic
period. He became convinced that
Germany was plotting a contlnua-
ton of the war so unsatisfactory
halted for an intermiSsion in 1918
The Supineness of the late Prime
Minister Chamberlain in meeting
this threat disguised him, and led
to his resignation.
Here. in this small volume, Lord
Vansittart has put together some OF
the many speeches and articles In
which he sets forth his very decl-
sive views on the nature OF the
German menace and what should
be done about it. He pulls no
punches. He SCOTS at those who
would draw line between Nazis
and other Germans, finding them
almost equally black with the tar
of bloodthirstiness, overweening am
bition, sadism and utter frigidlty
toward the human rights OF other
peoples.
Nor can Lord Vansittart find hope
in the easy theory that we have
only to organize the good Ger
mans and place them at the helm
of their state in order to insure
future peace. One by one he
examines the German churchmen,
the remnants of German "democ-
racy" at home and the expatrlate
sufferers" from Hitlerian tyrrany
here and in England.
For personal reasons of their own
he finds, some of them may dislike
the Nazis. but all are alike in their
preoccupation with two ideas - a
soft" peace for Germany and the
preservation of a nucleus of German
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Dv Ih " p'N I" fe'
Sound and excellent though it is,
this novel will probably suffer in
popularity from the fact that 1t
deals with German rebels against
Naziism, a theme which has been
worked heavily. But it is fine
niece of work, partaking of Alfred
Neumann's talent for sober, fiery
Intensity, and admirably construct
ed He is a veteran German nov
elist who was we'll known in this
country before he fled here in 1910,
I refugee from faSclsm. HIS WORK
Is distinguished by solid form OF
construction, almost Victorian IN It's
planned architecture and ordinarily
very grateful to come upon by way
of a change.
In his present book, however, he
will lack the benefit OF this orig
inality, for it has not only theme
but even a plan which has been
used before. 1t gives us the cases
of six conSpirators against Hitter
q university professor, his wife and
four of his studentS-Who are ar
rested for circulating an anti-Nazl
leafet. examined before a Nazl
tribunal, convicted and executed.
And it deals with this material
Through the method OF telling IN
retrospect the histories of the con-
spirators' lives as they sit before
their Judges. This is a familiar
procedure in Nazi trial novels. But
few novelistS who have used 1t
have imbued the routine material
with such utter conviction as Mr..
Neumann. He has been writing an
anti-Nazi novel, but once he got
into it. it became for him just
novel. a story about men and Wom-
en-. and he put into 1t a degree OF
intensity which gives 1t marked
distinction in the fiction of its kind.
It is the story of resistance to
Naziism on a number OF Levels.
There is a young Catholic. There
is a girl endowed simply with ma
tive generosity and common sense.
There are two soldiers returned
from the eastern front. The rea-
son for the rejection of the Hitler
doctrines by each of these is traced
with a compelling force. Against
the six are set the Nazi judges,
calm and rather bored, not sadlSts,
but simply men getting a routine
Job done. In them, as well as in
the rebels, Mr.. Neumann has put
a convincing human quality.
All this makes a novel which ap-
peals to the intellectual, rather than
the general reader. To the latter
It is probable that six of Them"
will stand as just one more story
of Nazi oppression, and so in these
particular days be passed over as
having no application 1t is too
bad that the book did not come out
somewhat earlier. Then it would
h,ve had the reading which is de-
Evening star., 1945-07-29
The Fotes Are Louqhinq
By w. P. Crosier. (Harcourt-
Brace, So

bJuCe, 3o.J
I would like to think that this
novel of Rome in the days of Tibe-
rius and Caligula would have wide
reading but I somehow doubt id
Novels of that period which enjoy
great popularity usually have re-
ligious theme bolstered up by stu
pendous descriptive passages devoted
to the arena The Fates Are Laugh
ing" has neither. 1t is just broad
picture of life in upper -class Roman
! society Its significance lies in the
parallel which the author, quite
without emphasis, indicates between
/ that society and civilization today
/ He is the editor of the famed Man
chester Guardian. His only other
book, The Letters of Pontius Pi-
/ late" of 20 years ago, also dealt with
Rome in the early days of the empire.
In The Fates Are Laughing the
effort is to show people possessed as
! individuals of culture and the hu-
manities surrounded by completely
/ barbarous political mechanism. The
Roman ladies of the day met at one
another's homes and discussed the
best schools for children, the slave
(servanD problem, the best places
to market and similar themes. Their
husbands jockeyed for jobs in the
various government departments,
came home happy or depressed &C
cording to the way things had gone
for them that day at the office, re-
peated the office jokes to their ad-
miring households and generally
stacked up as normal men of af-
fairs. And all the time, as Rome
drew farther from its republican
form and leaned more on its indis-
penSable mana procession OF him
the barbarous shadow of sudden
death, violence, confiscation and eX-
citizens. That is the theme of the
novel, 1t is carried out through the
story of two members of the young
generation who react to the new
trend in different ways. Metella, a
well-porn girl, resists it and takes
her stand for the old decencies
Aulus, her suitor, throws his lot in
with the new barbarians.
The novel makes no claim to liter
ary distinction and some of its hu-
morous characterizations are rather
overworked. But the bland presen-
tation of republic sinking into
totalitarianism is altogether good.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
Marta of Muscovy
By Phil Stong.

By Phil Stong. (Doubleday,
DorGn, S2.50J
This purports to be biography
of Marta Skavronski, the peasant
girl who became the wife of Peter
the Great of Russia, and as Cath
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crime I too K
Russia's throne
after P e t e RS
death. 1t pur-
ports-yes. What
one learns from
reading it, how
ever, is simply
that there is not
enough knowl-
edge Of Marta
extant to fur
nish out a full
Ion O I n hiOP-
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New Books

The Stranger, So. so, August /.
So Well Remembered, So 80, August /.
Psychology for the Armed Services, So
The Dawn of Liberation, So. 80, August /
The Japanese Nation, So, July 80.
No Greater Love, So, July 30.
Runway to the Sun, So 80. July go.
50 7h, July 30
The Story Of the Springfield Plan, S2.75
July 80.