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This is strong medicine and, true
or not, should be the source of a
lot of soul-searching for Americans.
America, the authors contend.
should adopt "a realistic foreign
policy which aims. in the midst OF
China's revolution, at three goals:
Il. That this revolution, when
successful, should regard America as
a friendly state.
80. That it should be achieved
with a minimum of violence and
bloodshed.
"3. That it should preserve within
itself always the right of minority
groups to speak, to protest, to act
under law and that it should permit
the great outer world to observe, to
witness and to report what it does" ;"
We must, we are told, come to an
agreement with Russia for mutual
nonparticipation, however indirect,
in China's civil war. If. however,
such an agreement with Russia is
impossible, then America should
match Russia's dynamic foreign
policy with an equally dynamic
policy.
Whatever else this policy implies,
it signifies prompt abandonment of
the Chang regime and confession
of the bankruptcy of past American
n01icy
Evening star., 1946-12-08

site direction. Mr.. Barea found the
republican politicians, in the main,
no better than the others. He stayed
at his post almost until the sur
render and his report continues to
be one of cowardice. treachery,
horse trading, face-saving and job
grabbing. He was finally jockeyed
out of his post by the admired
Constancia de la Mora, he writes,
who had no better reason for her
act than that she was jealous of his
wife and wanted the place for a
friend of hers anyway.
To me, the best part of the book
is the chapter which describes
life in a small Spanish town in the
prewar years. Mr.. Barea took his
family to such place for the fall and
winter of 1885. He found general
unemployment because the rich
were sabotaging the republic by re-
fusing to work their lands. The
whole range of bigotry, tyranny and
class hatred is unforgettably por-
trayed in his account of the condi-
tions obtaining in that microcosm
of Spain as a whole. Because he
persisted in keeping up courteous
relations with the poor of the town
he was finally obliged to leave. He
received warnings and then threats
and he had a family. In that
chapter alone is the whole explana-
ton of Spain's recent tragedy. You
could not find it put in clearer form.
1.-The Forging of a Rebel is a
fine book. What Mr.. Barea means
by rebel" however. is something
more than a member of any Euro
pean political party now existing.
He means a champion of human
rights. He has gone far beyond any
ideoloey.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Reviewed by
NPECTON r MULLINS.

CRESTON B. MULLINS.
China's story is sordid one and
probably will continue SO for gen.
erations more before this weary
land takes it's place among the pros
porous and influential democracles.
Meanwhile, an irresistible revolution
Is in progress, obscured-and not
checked-by the civil war.
This social and political revolu-
ton is the backdrop for a shocking
expose of China's fundamental
weakness by two Time correspond
ents, joint members OF the Chung
king bureau. Mr.. White has had
seven years of service in the Orient.
Mrs. Jacoby former MGM scenario
writer, is the widow OF Melville ia
cobv. Far Eastern correspondent.
Their work was the November book
of-the-month selection.
Their diagnosis of China's misery
is severe oppression OF the peasantry
under the dictatorship of Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek, complicated
by greed. graft and corruption OF
manifold varieties as we'll as po-
litical Vaccinations between Gen.
Chang, the Communists, Russia and
the United States.
Their prognosis is continued con-
fiict in China until the peasant is
freed of his bonds and the dictator
ship is swept away by a united gov
ernment in which all parties are
fairly represented. The United
States, they believe, can be the pro-
tagonist of this revolution and ride
its crest to influence in China.
Orchids to Gen. Marshall.
1t is to American policy in China
that the White-Jacoby work is di-
rected. with some scathing words
for Patrick j. Hurley, former Amer
ican Ambassador who, we are told,
earned the nickname Second Big
Wind" among his friends OF the
Kuomintang. They throw more
than a few orchids to Gen. George
C. Marshall, whose handiwork OF a
truce exploded behind his back early
this year.
Ambassador Hurley went to the
Far East to reconcile the Chinese
factions and bring internal peace
to this important ally of the United
States. The authors place the re-
sponsibihty for failure squarely on
Mr.. Hurley'S ambasSadorShip and
the policy which he represented.
Americans must realize now" the
authors argue, lone of the hard
facts of Chinese politics-that in the
eyes of millions of Chinese their
civil war was made in America"
Evening star., 1946-12-08

1t is the story OF spain from the
early years of the century to the
end of the civil war. Arturo Barea
is the son of working class family;
his mother was a Madrid washer
woman. BY reason of being reared
by a well-to-do uncle, however, he
saw middle-class Madrid life as well
as the life of the tenements. And
by reason of visiting country rela-
tives in summer he saw rural life
as we'll as urban A precociouS boy,
he won a scholarship to an expen-
sive school where he came in con-
tact with the sons of great families.
When, at the age of IA, he got his
first job, he worked as an apprentice
In a bank: hence he learned about
the life of the underpaid white
collar class. Later. he was con-
scripted and sent as soldier toI
Morocco to fight in the Riff1an War;
there he was witness to the corrup-
ton of Spanish high politics and
the incompetence of the Spanish
Army. In whatever environment he
was placed he saw great deal-saw
with physical vividness and mental
obiectivity. He has written 1t down
here in a narrative, which runs toI
over TOO pages in small type.
What Mr.. Barea says. in sum, Is
that Spain's every Organization
social, political, religious, military,
educational-is murderously repres-
sive of the common man; his normal
hopes for normal security, happi-
ness and well-being. There are good
men in all these organizations, he
observes-men of true good will to-
ward their fellow beings. But the
organization weight is dead against
them. They achieve nothing, except
perhaps their own destruction. In
prolonged and vivid detail he paints
a picture of Spain as feudalistic
juggernaut crushing the least STIR
ring of human rights, as we conceive
them.
For American Readers.
American readers generally will
probably be most interested in the
section Of the book which deals
with the civil war, the last 200
pages. Mr.. Barea was well estab-
lished in a company which reg
istered patents when the war broke
out; he had by then given up active
association with the church and,
despite the fact that he held an
executive position, had broken with
the traditions of the white collar
class-he had become union or
ganizer. In the days Immediately
following Frances rebellion, he was
made press censor for the republic.
It would be pleasant to be able to
report that. at this point, his narra-
tive takes on less condemnatory
turn but the truth is in the oppo-
Evening star., 1946-12-08
America Role in Bringing Freedom
To the Lonq-Sufferinq Chinese
OUT OF CHINA
A 4ssociates, Inc; S.)


By Theodore H. White and Annaee Jacoby (Wihan Sloane
a Ssnciafps. Inc: 81
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Enulish Literature

MACBETH. doubleday Writ
ten by William Shakespeare. H.
Illustrated by Salvatore Dali. Very
fancy covers. Boxed.
Sports
EASTERN UPLAND SHOOTING,
by Charles G. Norris. nippincott;
So. A long book, written with low
ing care on the proper techniques
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Christmos Gift Books

Of hunting Eastern game, including
the matter of guns, dogs and other
equipment
YOUR NEW BOAT, edited by the
staff of Yachting Magazine. Simon
& Schuster; $685. A substantial
book, dealing with the designs. up
keep and handling of many types
of small boats, both sail and motor.
illustrated with many plans and
photographs.
Evening star., 1946-12-08

company started and community
league but that does not satisfy him
There ought to be more, he says
The people somehow prefer to go tc
the movies.
He ends by signing that the gap
between the intellectual and the
villager must be bridged He doesn t
know how that is to be done either.
But he is working at it. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Psychological Study
Is Burnett S Latest
ROMELLE
By w. R. Burnett. (Knobf;
60 IN
Reviewed by
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.


A psychological study of the effects
of fear on a man is skillfully blended
with the usual elements of romance,
suspense and violence in this new
mystery novel.
Author of High Sierra" and
Little Caesar" Mr. Burnett has, in
his 18th novel, another potential
motion picture thriller, story OF
how a night-club singer is un-
suspectingly drawn into the strange
life of Jules Ramona, a supposed
Southern gentleman" who attracts
her attention by staring continuously
and dazedly at he. during her songs.
The ''whodunit' aspect of this
novel is definitely secondary to
Ramond's struggle to find in Ro-
melle, the singer, his mental escape
from criminal associates and a world
which, according to doctor friend,
is "a little too much for him."
Evening star., 1946-12-08

sentiment % u l
the village itself
has ceased to be
a self-sustaining
community and
it's institutions
no longer hold a
real interest for
the inhabitants.
1t goes without
saying that Mr..
Hicks is a born
organizer OUT ne
has not been
able to organize
much in Rox-
borough. He has
noffa,, Grc
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Monroe Biography
Is Modest Task
JAMES MONROE
By w. P. Cresson. iUniver.
ify of North Carolina; S5.)

Dy w. T. ATSSSOH. to"St''
sifv of North Carolina; S5.)
Reviewed by
DONALD H. MUGRIDGE,
Fellow in American History,
Library of Congress.
James Monroe has a shrine in
Fredericksburg and there clingS
about his name the glory and the
glamour which, as long as Ameri-
can patriotism survives, must al
ways attach to the founding fathers
of this Nation. Yet he was himself
the most prosaic If not commonplace
of mortals, whose habitual caution
and objectivity of mind. as well as
total lack of all style, literary or
other, render his personality we'll
nigh intangible to us of this latter
day. This dual nature-his un-
shakable public position combined
with his apparent personal insignifi-
cance-gives the biographer OF Mon
roe task of exceptional difficulty.
This is the latest of four attempts
on a reasonably large scale, and no
one of the four can be regarded as
very successful, or in the least, de-
finitive.
There are special reasons why the
present book could hardly be great
success. The author whose name
appears on the title page. William
Penn Cresson, died as long ago as
1892, leaving, it would appear. a
very incomplete manuscript; the
man found to carry on his work
was compelled to abandon 1t early
in the war: the unfinished text then
passed to the care OF clerical as
sistart, and the final tidying UP Of
the manuscript was done by the
University Press itself Under such
circumstances we should not expect
book to possess a very strong IN
dividuality. and this one does not.
1t is in general a straightforward
narrative of Monroe's life and times,
put together too exclusively from
Monroe's own papers and too little
from the writings of his contempo-
raries, and with minimum OF
generalization, Characterization or
commentary.
The general reader will find it
much less succinct than President
Gilmans outline in the American
Statesmen Series, and much less
readable, though no less partisan,
than George Morgan's life published
25 years ago. He will, however, do
well to prefer it to the highfalutin
farrago which Arthur Styron pro-
duced under the guiSe of life OF
Monroe last winter and live in the
hope of first-rate biography of our
fifth President.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
An American
View Of the
Home Town
SMALL TOWN
By Granville Hicks. Mae.
milan; So.

By Granville Hicks. Mae.
milan; So
To the many existing studies ol
American small towns, Granville
Hicks now adds his contribution
Mr.. Hicks gained his initial notoriety
in our country as a Communist
He was from 1884 to 1889 editor oi
the New Masses, he wrote ano
lectured in the interest of party
line politics pretty widely. In 1899
however, sickened by the Russo
German pact, he renounced his
party allegiance He is New Eng
lander and, like many New Eng
landers, he could hunger after
strange new doctrines. But he had
conscience. too. He could not
see how a country which hated wal
and fascism could give the go signal
to one that was bent on making
war for fascistic ends. Two and
two make four, as he saw it. He
decided then and there to begin
being an American.
He had been for some years living
in a small town in upstate New
York. He began studying the life
around him. He has already writ
ten two novels of rural life-"Only
One Storm and Behold Trouble. .
Now he comes out with nonfiction
survey of his village-its interests
institutions, economics. ideals and
future. 1t is worried little volume
which makes it plain that Mr
Hicks, having shaken off the burden
of the worlds future, promptly took
on that of the home town. He may
have given up communism but he
has not given up his missionary
spirit. His town has stood there,
incidentally, since the Revolution
What, asks Mr.. Hicks anxiously, is
going to happen to it in the years
to come?
1t Worries Him.
I would not dispose of his book
thus ironically, however, for there
is a good deal in it that deserves
any ones attention. In its depic-
tion of the apathy. the suspicious
ness and the intensely personal
nature of the towns thinking on all,
even public, questions, he has done
a mastery job. There is, beyond
doubt, a sort of crouched-down
mental attitude to be found in most
American small towns and Mr..
Hicks gets that in his pages excel
lently. You could say, indeed, that
in all his objective passages he is
fine. 1t is when he goes off into
speculation about What, Must Be
Done that he becomes vague andi
unconvincing. With considerable
frankness he admits that he does
not know the answer to that ques-
ton himself, and that, perhaps, is
why he fails to impress his readers.
He doesn't know-so what is there
to write about? Well, it worries him.
He is. he says grimly, an intellectual
and worrying is an intellectual's
business. stsa
What worries him most about his
Roxborough is that the. place is on
the decline in population and, in the
cultural sense, in hybrid state.
1t has lost its agricultural way of
life and no new way has developed.
It's working population in the main
is employed in the city Is miles
away and commutes by motor from
home to job. A strong loyalty to
the village still exists in the general
Evening star., 1946-12-08
gbe Sunday Star
Weekly Book Survey

The Sunday Star has arranged toith some Of the
leading booksellers OF Washington and suburban
areas to report each tceek the books Uhich sei
best as guide to Uhat Washington Is redd'ng.
title must be named by at least three stores TO
appear ON this chart.
This report is for the week ending December
Evening star., 1946-12-08
By Mory-corter Roberts
A Vivid Portrayal of Spain
As q Feudolistic Juqgernuut
He FORGING OF A REBEL

THE FUKJING OF A KEBEL
By Barea Translated from the Spanish by lisa Barea
(Reynal s. Hitchcock; S5.)
of those European autobographes which
country
reguaryan autobiography which is designed to tell not only
story nation troubled time.
the best of the kind which have read 1t in
terrible story but it's terrible quality from
any theatricaty that it honest
report made " a
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-11-08
Protect Your Pet and Yourself

take q chance that the animal will
prove to be healthy. The danger
is too great should things rurn out
the other way and hence, they adj.
vocate starting antirabic serum NJ
once.
The experience of the Chicago
Health Department strongly sup.
ports this view. Hence the only
failures in the prevention OF rabies
have occurred when the va tire
was not given early encuga tc
those bitten on the face or necl.
Immediate Injections
If the animal canno. he found
and observed, thei the only safe
thing is to assume that it was rab-
id, start immediate injections Ut
the vaccine, and give a full course.
Rabies seems to be another in
the long list of serious diseases
which are caused by those .x-
tremely tiny trouble makers. the
viruses. Once the rabies organism
enters the blood streams, i. car be
dealt with only by use of antirahi,
serum. For this and for other rea.
sons DIR. Thomas i. Chi:fcIie -
Nashville advocates washing ot
the wound with nothing stronger
than 20 per cent soap solution.
The use of such substances AZ
silver nitrate or strong acids IS
hardly of any value, and certainly
no treatment of the wound will
eliminate the virus from the ound
after six hours.
Persons who have animal bite.
should not delay in consulting "a
physician for treatment. Once t
develops. rabies is 100 per cent
fatal and hence nothing 20 fool
around with or to treat with home
remedies. There is just one right
treatment and that is prevention
by the use o; the vaccine carly.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-11-08

One-NIinute Test Answers
|. Venezuela and British, Dutch
and French Guiana.
2. Portuguese.
B. Theodore Roosevelt.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-11-08

high office, we cannot picture him
as coward.
AS for what British newspapers in
London may think or say about the
elections here is nothing for Ameri-
cans to be concerned about. What
has happened is but the functioning
of the American democratic system,
and if Europe doesn't like our way
of running government, why does
Europe perpetually hang on to our
coat tail to coax Uncle Sam to hand
over 10 Europe all it can get for
nothing? The British press appears
to be in mood TO chide America
in this hour, all the while losing sight
of the fact that but for the success
OF our way Of life here they would
today be slaves OF the Nazi gangsters
only recently liquidated. This way
of life has built q government: and
4 nation which has become power
lUl enough to save Europe twice
from dictatorship. Instead of being
thankfu for that, they choose to de-
ride American citizens when those
American citizens do not Jump when
Europe cracks its whip.
We are Il Democrat. have always
been one and have never voted any
other way. But We don't think the
United States is going to the dogs
merely because the Democrats have
lost Congress. 1t isn't the first time
his has happened.
One thing is sure about this cleo
ton, namely, that the Republicans
now taking over Capitol Hill will 0e
on trial and will have 10 walk the
tight wire of honest government and
Of steering the ratiCn into peace and
continued reasonable prosperity. I'm
less they do, they may DC on the
outside looking in two years hence.
even as the Democrats are today.
Surely no one knows that DETER
than the Republicans themselves Go.
lilI RIVER Sdl Ill pOllllSdl authority
has resulted from the dissatisfaction
Of the people with the chaos that has
been allowed to develop in this
country in the matter OF unnecessary
government control over individuals,
its abdication 10 labor unions, reck-
less spending and high taxes. I'm
less the Republicans can correct that
situation. nothing will be gained
whatever the people have decided.
and they might change their minds
again in l94G.
Mr.. Truman will be bigger man
and entitled 10 greater confidence
on the part OF the people if he
stands up and fights. than he would
be if he surrendered in the middle
of his term. For him To stay on the
job is part of the American political
system. 1t is his duty. Out Of self
respect he can do no less than carry
on. That is the way ii appears to us.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-11-08

Entered at the post office In Hender-
son, N. c., as second class mail matter
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-11-08
A Lift For Today

Confess your faults one to
another. and pray one for another.
that ye may be healed. The effec-
tual fervent prayer of righteous
man availeth INDEBTEDNESS SIG.
Through prayer we may attempt
great things for God. and he will
give us power and grace to do his
will.
Our Father we thank Thee that
we may come to know Thy will
through earnest prayer and receive
strength and vision to go forth in
Thy name TO tell the world about
us Of thy loving kindness.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-11-08
By HERMAN N. BURDESER. MD.

RABIES is a terrible disease,
starting suddenly with great irri-
tation of the nervous system, and
ultimately bringing about paraly-
sis and. death. Since we have no
cure for it, we are fortunate indeed
that it is primarily e. disease Of
dogs and is acquired by human
beings only as q result OF being
bitten by a rabid animal.
We are very lucky in another
respect, too, in possessing a pre-
ventive vaccine. This was worked
out by the great French scientist
Pasteur and where given early
enough to one who has been in
fected, the development of the dis
ease can be stopped almost with
out exception.
What to Do
With this in mind, the average
man wants to know what to do and
when to do it should he or a men,
Der of his family be bitten by a
dog which might be infected with
rabies.
Circumstance will determine the
answer. If the animal can be found,
it should be kept under observa-
ton. If it does not develop symp-
toms of rabies within two weeks,
no further concern need be felt.
If it does. there will still be time
for the antirabic serum to take
effect because, though the time
between infection and the onset of
rabies varies, in the great major
ity of cases, it is 20 to 60 days.
There ", one exception to this.
Bites on the face or neck are
particularly dangerous. Therefore
many doctors feel that in these
cases there should be no waiting at
all. In other words, one should not
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