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Evening star., 1946-08-25
Just to Complete
ChurchiHs Record
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S
SECRET SESSION SPEECHES

Compiled by Charles FADE.
(Simon & Schuster;; S2.J
Three of the five speeches which
were made by Winston Churchill in
the war years before secret sessions
of the House of Commons and are
collected in this volume have al
ready been given to the press. OF
one of the other two, the word
speech" is misnomer. Addressing
the House on June 20. 1910, on the
subject England Fights Alone" Mr..
Churchill kept no manuscript of his
remarks. His notes alone are in
cluded in the volume. The other of
the two is an address on the duties
of Parliament in, the air raids and
was made September II, 1910. The
remaining three - previously pub
lished-are THE Battle Of the At
lantic," June Is, 1941; The Fall of
Singapore" April %, 1912, and
"Darlan and the North African
Landings" December 10, 1912.
There is not much which now
seems significant in the two hitherto
unpublished speeches. The notes of
the first one have some amusing
Churchillisms, as when he writes of
Goering that he was an "airman
turned politician. I like him better
as an airman. Not very much any,
way" and is full of shrewd turns as
when it says tina. England will do
nothing about Irish neutrality for 1t
would be better If the Germans broke
lit than the English. The other speech
simply concerns the change in
Parliament's schedules which the air
raids made necessary. The House, as
Mr.. Churchill said, was sitting on
la target" and he deemed it best to
sit at unpredictable hours and as
infrequently as possible.
The other speeches are the old
fighting Prime Minister, letting his
colleagues know the worst and then
reiterating the resolution to fight on
The volume should be had by any
one who wants the full record OF
MIR. Churchill for the war period.
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Brief Reviews
GARDENS.

The Gardeners Bug Book, by Gym
thia Wescott. {American Garden
Guild and Doubleday A substan-
tial volume describing, with Illus
trations, 1000 insect pests and CIV
ing methods of control. Gardeners
should have it.
THE WAR.
Iron Out Of Calvary, by Walter
Phelps Hall. ID. Appleton-Cen-
tury.) Professor Of history at
Princeton writes a Interpretation
Of the recent conflict.
Behind Soviet Powers, by Jerome
Davis. (Readers' Press.) Survey
of Russian conditions. The rosy
interpretations.
HUMOR.
A Rock in Every Snowfall, by
Frank Sullivan. little Brown. }
A collection of articles by the one
and only.
FOLK LORE.
Old Abe, by Lorraine Sherwood
tScribnersD The story of an eagle
which was mascot of a Union regi-
ment in the Civil War.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Has Professor Worren's Book Brought
To Us the Real Dictator Huey P. Long?

come corrupt; he begins his career
by grasping the simple fact that to
rise even by hairs breadth in poll
tics man must make use of corrupt
methods, and he starts out with that
as his frankly stated rule. His
philosophy of political success is
summed up in his observation, made
late in the book, that he has never
framed any one. You don't ever
have to frame anybody" he says,
because the truth is always suffi-
cient."
A Political Genius.
So, instead Of showing us a meta
morphosed Long who began with
pure ideals and succumbed to per-
sonal ambition, Mr.. Warren por-
trays q political genius who began
with hatred of the established
bosses and proceeded to beat them
at their own game. His Willie Stark
rises by the utterly orthodox meth
DDS of bribery and blackmail, but
applied with. reverse English. For
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Among
the Authors
BY Carolyn Coqeins

Some things to look forward to
THE Brocaded Sari," in which
Ishvanl. an Indian Moslem woman
well known IN Europe and England
as dancer, tells her life story.
John p. Marquand's novel COM
ing early November called "B F. s
Daughter" and the first mystery
book on the Nero Wolfe Rex Stout
has managed in six years will be
out In the autumn. Title, The
Silent Speaker"
Robert Standish, author Of 1.-The
Small General" writes that he is
happy to be back in France, which
was the home of this Englishman
before the war. Although back in
his own home again, a sour note is
sounded by "a simple lunch for six
cost me $4,000 francs which, If di-
vided by 100 would give you the
result in dollars"
His October novel will be 'Mr.
On IsOong
Evening star., 1946-08-25
When the Animals
Took Over
ANIMAL FARM
ANIMAL FARM
By George OrWeH. (Harcourt
. Brace: S1.75.)

By George OrweH. (Harcourt
. Brace; s1.75J
The fable, which is always a pleas
ant and pertinent way OF showing
up human folly, is used in this little
work to satirize the political revolu-
ton. George Orwell's story is Of an
English farm on which the animals
revolted against their human ex-
ploiters and took possession. They
had at first great happiness In the
knowledge that henceforth their
labors would be for themselves and
not for any master. But presently
masters arose from their own ranks
and step-by-step they returned to
their old slavery.
1t is not a brilliant work as satire
goes, but it follows the inevitable
course of affairs so closely that 1t Is
warming to the heart. Indeed, one
feels that its lack Of brilliance comes
from his literalness--it is not great
satire because 1t comes too near to
being literal history. The hope OF
common ownership of the means OF
production, the faith in the indi-
viduals who led the fight against the
oppressor, the split between those
leaders, the exile OF one by the other
the systematic viliflcation of the
exile by the dictator who succeeded
him, the rise Of secret police, the
covering up of failure by spectacular
trials and executions, the gradual
descent of the rank and file into
their old acceptance of tyranny
is all there. BY making it struggle
among the four footed. Mr.. Orwell
,, merely has high Lighted Its ancient
routine. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-08-25

Willie does aim to make his corrupt
machine serve the humble people of
his State. His success rests not on
innovations OF method but on SUI
perior skill in getting the dirt on
his competitors.
The figure that emerges is, there
fore, that of the benevolent despot
Willie, who is smarter, tougher
gangster than the others, remains
politically pure of heart. He dis
penses bribes, nut ne takes none; he
allows his confreres to graft enough
to keep them happy, but he stays
poor. He shovels everything back
into benefits for the common man.
He builds roads, hospitals and power
projects-an for the service of the
people. He remains in power be-
cause the people keep him there.
The merit Of the novel is, however,
not in the portrait Of Willie, which,
for its contradictions, will seem to
most people more picturesque than
possible. 1t Is in the broad pam
Drama which Mr.. Warren contrives
Of q typical State political machine,
manned by visionless crooks, grind
ing out huge processes through the
labor OF these crooks, but divorced,
in their thinking, from any connec-
ton with anything but their i'm
mediate livelihood. That has sell
dom been done better. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-08-25

excitedly piling these matters OF
common knowledge around it.
His main argument is that there
must be world state and that our
country must be the leader in that
state. And that, as We stand at
present, we are woefully unprepared
for world leadership.
The reason we must have a world
state is, says Mr.. Stowe, the awful
fact of the bomb. No nation must
be allowed to prepare for war in an
atomic age. But what Mr.. Stowe
does not explain is how, even with
atomic knowledge shared, the world
state is to prevent any of its member
states from making bombs secretly.
That seemed to me question.
They Are Afraid of Us.
He saws that our present manu-
facture of the bomb is creating a
fear of us in other nations and that
the result of that fear will be war.
What he does not say, again, is why
any nation which would launch an
atomic war simply out of fear that
the peaceful United States might
launch one first, would be deferred
from launching one anyway for
more substantial reasons-as for
the hope of world domination. He
is ardently, passionately devoted to
the idea of a peaceful future world,
and no one can question the utter
rightness of his devotion. But the
fact remains that no European
power has ever been deferred from
making war when 1t wanted to make
war. Mr.. Stowe does not show how
this can be changed in the years
before us.
When he says that we are unpre-
pared for world leadership, how
ever, he is on sound grounds. And,
in placing the blame for this, he is
sound again. He puts the blame on
the American citizen.
He charges the. American people
with indifference toward the con-
duct of their leaders and with AN
ignorance of the world in which
they live which is incredible. He at
tacks our schools and other meth
ods of education for turning out a
generation of provincials and he
observes justly that American par
ents do little to train their children
in the disciplines of courtesy. No
one can doubt his rightness on
these points, either. Young Amer
leans feed their minds on pulps,
comics and Hollywood-and see
their elders consuming the, same
chaff. We are, as a people, good
natured. generous and inclined to
fair play. But we are also uncul-
tured, devoid of intellectual curl
osity and inclined to meet whatever
seems superior to our immediate en-
vironment with q sneer. When Mr.
Stowe observes that world leader
ship, even leadership Of this parti-
cular bankrupt, shamed and dis
credited world, is not likely to
spring from such material he is abb
solutely right. We have recently had
a political New Deal in our country.
What we need now is an educational
nna
Evening star., 1946-08-25
OF That Hatfield
Mccoy Feud
THEIR ANCIENT GRUDGE
By Harry Harrison KroH.
(BobbS-Merriu. s2.75.j

By Harry Harrison KroH.
(Bobbs- Merrill; s2.75.J
AS I have sometimes mentioned
on this page that I am a native
West Virginian, it may occur to my
readers that I ought to bring a
specially broad knowledge to 4 re-
view OF novel on the famous Hat
field-McCoy feud. / am obliged to
say, therefore, that 1 read Harry
Harrison Krolls fictionized version
Of the historic fight with only a lay
understanding to help me. I am q
West Virginian-yes. But / learned
of the feud only when researchers
brought its horrors to the public.
never heard it mentioned in the
Little Kanawha Valley where
lived. 1t was out of our locale, for it
took place on the Kentucky border,
and it was also pretty much in the
past by then. Nor can I offer any
general knowledge of feuding which
1 might have gained from watch
ing other local massacres. There
were no local massacres or any
memory Of them. AS well as I re-
member, my first acquaintance with
feud as an American institution
came when I read "Huckleberry
Finn" regretted then, seem to
recall, that all such exciting hap
penlng took place in books.
So 1t was with no more than Or
dinary critical vigilance that I read
Mr.. Kroll's story and have to con-
fess that I found little in 1t that
seemed familiar to me. I am not
bringing him into question on his
accuracy: his authorities are impress
sive and he, unlike me, has been on
the spot. But his mountaineers are
a different breed from those whom
I knew. Mine did not, for example,
say ''mountings" when they meant
mountains" They did not say
mountains" in any form. West vir-
ginia is rough in that section-it is
rough everywhere. But we called our
mountains hills
Reading as a plain furriner, how
ever, found Mr.. KroIl altogether
interesting. He emphasizes the part
of women IN the feud, telling his
tale through the lives of five
daughters and wives OF the en-
battled houses. Thus he supplies
more human motivation for the
conflict than other writer's have
given but, at the same time. he
avoids the John Fox, jr., kind OF
romanticizing. The story is not ro-
mantle but neither is it merely
beastly. 1t is human, one has to fear
Given its conditions, it was even in
evitable. Mr.. Kroll gets all that into
! his record.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
One Wonders Why Cortoonist David Low
Has Not Been Made Prime Minister

of Manchuria by Japan. From
there on, through the Ethiopian
business, the Disarmament Confer
ence, the Spanish War, Munich,
Austria and all the rest Of it, the
wonderful New Zealander showed
that he perceived what was truly
happening as almost no man in
public life could claim to do. One
wonders, as one looks at the COL
lection, why David Low was not
Prime Minister. Or why he still
does not become that. You would
think that any country in the world
would be glad to get him,
Evening star., 1946-08-25
There Must Be World State and We
Must Lead 1t, Writes Leland Stowe
WHILE TIME REMAINS
By Leland Sto,ue. fKnopt; $780,

Into this book Leland foreign correspondents
what
and the future Many of those thoughts
many history Reading his
that ne is filling up pages with the obvious Often thought
This
years But the that Mr.
numbers
has been going on for just about that long
He has written them
conterpa humping shouting
he threatens His emotion froh forth therefore
world
form of fasosm have not heard that
heard the atomic bomb popping
Evening star., 1946-08-25
ALL THE KINGS MEN

By.RObert Penn warren. mar
court, Brace; $3.J
The hero of this novel--a South
ern Governor who posed as the
Messiah of the poor. aimed at being
President and died from an assas-
sins bullet-has appeared in other
works of fiction and has an tnev-
liable counterpart in recent history.
Whether the authors used the late
Huey Long for more than a point
of takeoff is immaterial. The fact
Is that, when you read in a novel OF
an ungrammatical, pot-likker-loving
Gulf State politician who becomes
a threat to established political Or
der, you cannot help thinking Of
Huey. The man who would be king
survives as a figure for the fic-
tioneers. 1t has happened before in
history. Indeed, it usually happens.
The present novel is the best Of
the crop which I have as yet read.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
COOKERY.

How I Feed My Friends, by Max
White. Duell, Sloan & Pearce.) A
well-known novelist offers 100 rec
ipes for Sunday night dishes"
REPRINTS.
The Buffalo Box, by Frank Gruber; :;
Home Ranch, by viii James; A Bell
for Adano, by John Hersey; Escape
the Night, by Mignon Eberhart;
Death in the Blackout, by Anthony
Gilbert; No Hands on the Clock, by
Geoffrey Holmes; The Laughter Of
My Father, by Carlos Bulosan;
Nothing Can Rescue Me, by Eliza
beth Daly-all Bantam Books.
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Evening star., 1946-08-25
By DaUid Lo1U. v
Quincy HOWe.
YEARS OF WRATH

By DaUid Lou. With tert by
Quincy HoUe. (Sim1on g.
Schuster;: $375.)
This is the David Lows cartoon
history of the war. The collection
of drawings dates, to be sure, from
1881, not 1899, but Mr.. Low was one
of the few inspired minds of Britain
and he saw, even as early as did
Winston Churchill, that war was on
order and coming up. The first car
toon in the book is appropriately
enough one celebrating the invasion
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Best Sellers
NATION WIDE.

according to Publishers weekly
FICTION.
1st--The Hucksters, Frederic Wake
man.
2d--This Side Of Innocence, Taylor
Caldwell
3d--Brittania News. MarGery Sharp.
4th-The Snake Pit, Mary Jane
Ward.
NONFICTION.
1st--Peace of Mind, Josnua L. LfHb.
man.
2d-The Egg and /. Betty Mcdonald.
3D. Chose Freedom, Victor KrAy-
chenko.
4th-The Great Globe Itself. William
C. Builitt.
5th-Lsst Chapter, Ernie Pyle.
Evening star., 1946-08-25

1t has more breadth and more vi
sion. Previous workers on the SUBJ
ject have usually been rather un-
imaginatively concerned with the
immediate morality Of the politician
hero's life, his betrayal OF the trust
of the humble who elect him, his
growing ambition for a dictator's
power. Robert Penn Warren parts
company with his predecessors on
that point. His hero does not be-
Evening star., 1946-08-25

The Job Hunters Handbook, by
Marion w. Schaul prentice Hall)
How to find job in your own city.
A small handbook full of helpful
hints.
Educating for Industry Through
Apprenticeship, by William F. Pat
terson and Marion H. Hedges.
prentice Hall) An argument for
the apprenticeship system.
Evening star., 1946-08-25
Reviewed by
NUGENT SHARP.

NUGENT SHARP.
"It Is the beautiful necessity of
our nature to love something" I"
Douglas Jerrold once said. How
greatly this need must be magnified
for a person isolated from life!
Leonhard Frank has told a pas
sionate story OF prisoners neces-
sity Of love and the extraordinary
but realistic consummation of that
love. Carl, a German prisoner Of
war, committed to the Russian
steppe, listens enraptured to the
stories of his companion Richards
love for Anna, his wife, In Germany
Despite several untenable Freudian
elements, the story Is wholly cred-
ible. One can believe that Carl, in
this austere and depressing atmos-
phere, fell inextricably in love with
Anna, the woman he had never seen,
was compelled to possess her, COM
PEELED to hold her for his own.
Although the shifting viewpoint
occasionally confuses the reader, the
contrasts of the story are kept clear
and sharp. The tenacious love OF
Carl and Anna. unf1inching even In
the face of Richards return, stands
clean and perfect against the sordid,
squalid background of the German
tenement.
The translation of Beloved
Stranger into more than 30 Ian
guages, its adaptation to the stage,
and It's purchase by Hollywood are
marks of its well-deserved success.
You will escape and live in this
world of despair and happiness as
you read its imaginative story.
Evening star., 1946-08-25

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Desperate Prisoner S
Dream of Love
BELOVED STRANGER

By Leonhdrd Frank, translated
By Cyrus Brooks. &C. B. Fisher;
<2
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gbe Sunday Star
Weekly Book Survey

The Sunday Star has arranged with some OF the
leading booksellers OF Washington and suburban
areas to report each Deek the books Gtich sell
best as a guide to ,Uhat Washington Is reading.
title must be named by at least three stores to
appear ON this chart.
This report Is for the week ending August 20
Evening star., 1946-08-25

The Georgetown players INDUCED
in their first round robin of the
season last week. High score was
made by Mrs. J. g. Fletcher. Mrs.
Dixie r. Wright was second.
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