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Evening star., 1947-01-26

province and, finally, exchange OF
American and Russian soldiers
liberated from prisoner OF war
camps.
AS his tribulations multiplied
Gen. Deane reached the conclusion
that stiffening attitude on our
part would be more effective the.:
the prevailing policy OF continued
appeasement. His recommendations
along this line generally were over
ruled in Washington. 1t was after
a year of bafhement that Gen
Deane wrote an informal and frank
note to Gen. Marshall of which this
is an excerpt:
Viewed With Suspicion.
every one will agree on the i'm
portance of collaboration with Rus
sia-now and in the future. 1t won't
be worth a hoot, however, unless it
is based on mutual respect and
made to work both ways. I have
sat at innumerable Russian BAN
quets and become gradually nau-
seated with Russian food, vodka
and protestationS of friendship
Each person high in public life
proposes a toast a little sweeter
than the preceding one on Soviet
British American friendship. 1t is
amazing how these toasts go down
past the tongues in the cheeks
After the banquets we send the
Soviets another thousand airplanes
and they approve a visa that has
been hanging fire for months. We
then scratch our heads to see what
ether gifts we can send, and they
scratch theirs to see what else they
can ask for. This picture may be
overdrawn, but not much. = y
The truth is that they want to
have as little to do with foreigners
Americans included, as possible. We
never make request or proposal
to the Soviets that is not viewed
with suspicion. They simply cannot
Understand giving without taking
and as result even our giving is
viewed with suspicion"
But most of this suspicion and
aloofness, Gen. Deane found, is
centered in the top Soviet leader
ship. He does not believe it extends
into the rank and file of the Rus
sian people. And in the underlying
but suppressed, friendship of the
Russian people he sees real hope
for an eventual lifting of the iror
curtain. He answers the categorical
question, Can we get along with
the Russians?" with a firm yes
conditioned only on our adherence
to a stiff, fortnight policy of deal
ing with leaders who respect
strength and despise weakness.
This is advice so deeply rooted in
wartime experience that it cannot
be lightly ignored in our future
relations with truly strange Ally
Evening star., 1947-01-26

ince, which in recent years mas peen
subjected to virtual civil war be-
tween pro- Russian Moslems and ad-
herents of Nationalist China.
Border areas in Burma and Indo-
China also are involved, and a d1-
rect claim was made in the book to
Formosa, Manchuria and Innel
Mongolia which were under Japa-
nese control in 1943.
China has made no particular
point of these territorial claims
since the war, except with regard
to her negotiations with Russia
over Manchuria and her internal
dispute with the Chinese Com
munists in North China.
National Humiliation.
The original breaking off of these
territories, Chang wrote, meant
the undermining of the nations
security as we'll as the decline OF the
nations culture. Thus the people
as a whole must regard this as
national humiliation, and not until
all lost territories have been re-
covered can we relax our efforts to
wipe out this humiliation and save
ourselves from destruction"
The book is replete with exhorta-
tions to the Chinese people to throw
off the cultural and economic evils
which Chang says were introduced
through the foreign concessions OF
the last century. He wants return
to "China's 5,Oo0-year-old tradition
of diligence, thrift and simplicity"
which he said was completely un-
dermined by the opium, gambling,
prostitutes and thugs of the con-
cessions."
Major portions of the book are
devoted to a recapitulation OF the
theories of Sun Yat-Sen and
Chiang's conception of the means Of
attaining them first through a
period of tutelage during which he
has defended some of the Nation
alist governments totalitarian prac-
tices as necessary due to the state
of the country and finally democ-
racy.
Called "Mein Kampf."
His motives have been assalled on
this score, as has his motive for the
book, which has been made the
basis of study for millions Of Chi
nese, and to which his enemies have
constantly referred to as his "Mein
Kampf."
In January, 1916, release OF the
Committee for a Democratic Far
Eastern Policy, New York organi-
zation, said:
att is commonly believed in China
that the motive which prompted
Chang to publish "China's Destiny"
was to prepare the theological
ground for possible cooperation
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Eric Hatch Gives
The Light Touch
THE UNEXPECTED
WARRIOR
By Eric Hatch. (Rinehart 3
Co: 81. =
Reviewed by
MARTHA LEWIS.

Harvey Simmons, central char
acter of Mr.. Hatch's latest novel, is
a Mr. Milquetoast who for years has
been overshadowed by his brilliant
actress wife.
At her theatrical cocktail parties
Harvey is quiet mouse who Is
either showed into a corner OF
ordered to take their dog, Butter
ball, for walk.
Nor is Harvey any happier at his
fathers meat packing business
where he is treated like an office
boy. He tried frantically to get into
one of the war services, with ne
luck.
Ali these Illustrations cause Har-
vey to land in hospital with a
nervous breakdown. He is a pa
thetic, broken man no one in the
world seems to understand.
But two things occur to put Har-
vey back on his feet. First, he gets
an overseas job with the Owl
even though the appointment was
made in error-the owl mistakenly
thinks he is Harvey Simmons, the
radio engineer. Second, Harvey
falls in love with an attractive
blond Red Cross worker.
In the Owl he suddenly finds
himself loved and respected by his
men-an experience which is en-
tirely new to a man previously lg-
nored by every one. The girl he
falls in love with, surprisingly
enough to Harvey, actually loves
him, and does not, like all the
women Harvey has known before
merely feel motherly toward him.
This is not a serious novel, as you
probably have gathered. AS in my
Man Godfrey" and other novels, Mr.
Hatch uses the light touch here
You will laugh with Harvey and
cheer him as he fights his way to
final freedom and self-respect.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Enlightenment on the Wartime
Alliances With Soviet Russia
THE STRANGE
ALLIANCE
By John R. Deane. fDiking
Press; S3.75.)
Reviewed by
REX COLLIER.

1t was, indeed, a strange alliance
which existed between Soviet Russia
and her western Allies during World
War II, judging by this important
book. The alliance is described by
Mai. Gen. John r. Deane. now
retired from the Army. It was so
strange that some of its details
border on the incredible.
Gen. Deane's mission to Moscow,
which began in October of 1943 and
continued until after the japanese
surrender, was to penetrate the iron
curtain which even then was inter-
fering with Soviet-Anlerican and
Soviet British relations. He was
selected for this task by Gen. Mar
shall, who had observed with ap-
proval Gen. Deanes work as secre-
tary of the Combined Chiefs of
Staff. Gen. Deane's intelligence,
tact, persistence, patience and per-
sonality were qualities which fitted
him, in Gen. Marshall's opinion, to
be head of our military mission in
Russia during the most crucial
phases of the European and Pacific
wars.
Gen. Deane was commended for
his efforts, but his mission was not
a success. The general himself
frankly makes it plain that it was
a mission of Illustration from be-
ginning to end-of unforeseeable,
unexpected and inexplicable obsta-
cles placed in the pathway of inter-
Allied cooperation and co-ordina-
ton by an Ally we are trying
earnestly to help.
Soviet Obstructionism.
During his first year at the Rus
sian capital Gen. Deane encountered
nerve-racking, patience-trying sam
Piles of Soviet obstructioniSm when
he endeavored to arrange such
mutually advantageous undertakings
as shuttle bombing (between our
bases in Italy and Russian bases) in
the Ukraine, direct dio-teletype
communications between Moscow
and our own military headquarters,
exchange of weather information
vital to our bombing operations over
Germany and Japan. iaison between
Russian and British-American air
and ground forces. establishment of
B-29 bases in Russias maritime
Evening star., 1947-01-26

rather than merely morbid or dis
tasteful, as some writer's would have
contrived to do. It's made more
plausible, too, because the father,
Jess Tyler, has seen neither his
wayward wife nor his two daughters
for many years, since the girls were
children.
Kady, who was his favorite
daughter, returns, comely creature
of 10, and tells him who she is.
Kady is no good. She has had an
illegitimate child. She drinks and
carries on with the men. She tries
to entrap the man she assumes to be
her father. But Jess is a religious
man, who wants to do what is right,
and he .resists her wileS, however,
he feels. until he learns, on what
seems valid evidence, that she is not
his daughter. Then all is different.
And other things begin to happen,
swiftly, inevitably.
Jess disintegration, under the
guidance of Kady is thing of sinis-
ter fascination, like a fight that
nothing can check. Helping to speed
his downward way are his wife; who
returns to die of tuberculosis; her
wretched, venomous lover and his
rif1e-toting brother. All the COM
plications sift into an ending with a
! terrific impact.
The story is written in Mr.. Gains
tightest. most vivid style. He dis
cusses this style in his preface. He
does not, he insists, belong to any
school, hard-boiled or otherwise
though he comedies that such cata-
loguing makes critics task easier
He tells how he has discarded the
"he sayses" in his dialogues This
does accelerate his tales, though
sometimes he carries it so far that
it's not quite clear who is talking
| .-s &C. 3. J.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
PoIond's Case History as Seen Through
The Eyes of Her Wartime Ambassador

will take few readers by surprise
It is that America betrayed Po-
land by abandoning her to Rus
sian domination. He believes our
mistake was not committing Russia
to binding agreement settling the
European problem while we had the
bargaining power to do so.
Mr.. Ciechanowski is an oxford
man. His English prose is what one
expects of an Oxford man. Never
sparkling, it is dignified and literate,
in keeping with the overall tone of
the book There is nothing dramatic
or whimsical about this account OF
Poland,s diplomatic misadventures.
There is no literary breast-beating.
There is careful restraint and an
unwillingness to court sympathy or
seek a cheap revenge which do
credit to the authors sense of
propriety.
Mirroring Personalities.
Mr.. ciechanowski's analysis of
the various American and foreign
personalities with whom he had to
deal seems remarkably incisive. His
reporting of what they thought, said
and did about Poland, and the pic
ture of them which emerges, lose
nothing as result of the apparent
determination not to be impolite.
Only once does this determination
break down. In the closing pages of
the book, the authors pentup bit
terness spills over on the head of
a relatively minor State Department
official, Elbridge Durbrow, then chief
of the departments Eastern Euro
pean Division, now Counselor of EN-
bassy in Moscow. Young Mr.. Dur
brow's remark that this Polish prob
lem was becoming an "intolerable
headache" appears to have repre-
sented the last straw to the tired
diplomat, who already knew he was
beaten.
But Mr.. Ciechanowski himself
would doubtless be>the first to agree
that the thing which beat him was
not the attitude of Mr.. Durbrow OF
any other individual. The unmis-
taxable lesson of his book is that il
was, instead, the loose, casual system
| in which the individuals were work
ing-some of them very capably-
which did the damage.
Much has already been done tc
put in order the sloppy diplomatic
mechanism which, in the war years
gave Mr.. Ciechanowski and all he
stands for such a bad time. Ameri.
cans, still feeling there is plenty o1
room for improvement, will read hi.
! book with profit.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-Chiang
Kai-shek's book, "Chinas Destiny, y
withdrawn soon after its publica-
ton in 1943 and placed under rigid
censorship presumably because OF
its bitter antiforeign passages, makes
its English-language appearance to-
day.
Up to now, the only known COM
plele translation III America was
in the carefully guarded files OF
the State Department, which Sec
retary Byrnes refused to open last
year, saying publication would not
be "propitious.
Now two versions are coming out,
One is by Roy Publishers, which
says theirs is a double-checked, not
officially authorized translation by
two Chinese scholars of the 1943
version. The other is an official ver-
sion, revised in 1914, to tone down
the books antiforeign passages and
insert credit to the United States,
Britain and other countries which
have given up eXtraterritorial and
other concessions in China on which
Chang had blamed vast proper
ton of the countrys woes.
Publishers in Race.
The official revised version, re-
leased by the Chinese news agency,
is being brought out by Macmillan
The two concerns originally planned
publication for next month, but
each has advanced the date sew
eral times since learning OF the
others plans.
In addition to Chiang's antifor-
eign statements, the book expounds
governmental theories, attacks the
Chinese Communists and sets forth
some territorial claims against Eng
LAND, France and Soviet Russia.
In the 1943 version, as revealed
by the Associated Press from ex-
cerpts obtained in May, 1914
Chang said that cohesive and de-
fensible China must include all ter
ritory which she had embraced a
hundred years ago, such as:
Tannu Tuva. north of Outer Mon.
golia. which has been incorporated
into the Soviet Union.
Outer Mongolia which. While
nominally independent, has been
under Russian hegemony since 1911.
connection which has been inten-
sified under the Soviets after brief
period of re-orientation toward
China few years ago.
Tibet, which also has become
practically independent of China
and where Chang said British
manipulations had been exactly the
same" as those of Russia IN Mon
golia.
Sinkiang, far northwestern prov
Evening star., 1947-01-26
DEFEAT IN VICTORY
By Jan Ciechanowski. (Don
bieday s. Co.; S3.50.)
Reviewed by
NEWBOLD MOVES, Jr.

NEWBoLD MOVES, Jr.
This is an example of a book
which aims so successfully at
limited objective that it ends up
doing a good deal more than it sets
out to do. 1t will make hard but
worthwhile reading for anybody
interested in international politics.
Mr.. Ciechanowski, distinguished
representative of a Poland which no
longer exists, has undertaken simply
to tell his readers what happened to
him and to mis- mission in this
country during the recent war. He
evidently feels that, in so doing, he
may add to our understanding OF
Poland's tragic case.
And so he may. But Defeat In
Victory" is more than Mr.. Ciechan-
owski's and Poland's story. 1t is
more, even, than an Illuminating
case history of a small power
any small power-in a great power
world.
Americans will value this book,
above all, for the light it throws
on the workings of our diplomatic
machine. Mr.. Ciechanowski has
been caught up in the cogs of this
machine and, like Charlie Chaplin in
Modern Times" has been dragged
through it's whirring insides. The
fact that he was cruelty mangled
may not matter much to hard
boileo Americans. What does mat
ter to them is that he ended his
horrifying journey with an under
standing of the inner workings OF
the machine which perhaps sur
passes that of the men who are try
ing to work it.
Mr.. Ciechanowski, being a diplo-
mat, does not presume to lecture
America on her diplomacy. The
understanding he achieved is i'm
parted only in passing. But the
book is instilled with it and the
reader will not fail to soak it up.
The Polish Elections.
In so doing. incidentally, he will
be exposed to Mr.. Ciechanowski's
| ideas about what has happened te
Poland and lucid account of thai
part of Polish history which was
written in Washington, In the light
of last weeks Polish elections" ht
may find himself more interested ir
these than he normally would be.
Mr. Ciecha nowski'S essential view
Evening star., 1947-01-26
The Good Life
Is the Happy One
ON BEING FIT TO LIVE
WITH
By Harry Emerson Fosdick.
Harper Bros; S2.50.)
Reviewed by
REIvI,X NIL EC

To those familiar with DR.. Fos-
dicks philosophy this collection OF
25 sermons will serve as a forceful
reminder of the positive and dy-
mic faith he stresses. Selected
from the last two and one-halt
years of his active ministry, the SER
mons are built around the postwar
world and a Christians part in that
world.
Once again, the reader finds DR.
Fosdick's broad outlook, his en-
phasis upon the elimination OF
fear, that Svengali of the SOUL" his
mature and hard-hitting philoso-
ply, and his belief in the good" lifC
as the happy and creative one.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
POINTERS FOR PARENTS. b,

POINTERS FOR PARENTS. by
Reinhard v. Lozier. M. D. Llppln
cottO. How to look after your chlle
from birth to adolescence, with sue
eestions on diet, sleeping and othe
habits, including play and FRIEND
ships.
THE LADY FORGOT, by MAJ
garet S. Marble CHarper & Bro
A novel about the violent death
sn artist and what followed t
acouittal of the young woman foun,
near him with a gun in her hand.
Evening star., 1947-01-26

Is not exactly
new in English
literature - you
may 60 b a C k
to F ie ! d / n g's
Tom Jones'"
but one which
most W ritter S
have preferred
to sidestep: In
cest. While Mr..
Cain hardly can
be charged with
indirection a t
any time, at
least he has
made this mar
rotiya dromat tjc
Evening star., 1947-01-26

p o W e r to neal
the crippled and
the sick.
Veronica Bliss,
W ho gre W t @
adolescence in a
| oW er middle
C | a S S Brooklyn
environment had
shown nothing
to mark her off
from other girls,
except perhaps
a fragile lowell
ness. Her father
had turned ap-
n o S t ic because
he did not he
Evening star., 1947-01-26
James M. Cain Has
Something to Say
About His Style
THE BUTTERFLY
By James NJ. Cain. (Knobf;

At Mr.. Gains breathiess pace, this
story tells what happens to man
of good Intentions. nountaineer
of the West Virginia Kentucky bor-
der country, whose womenfolk, as
worthless a lot as you'd never want
to meet, catch up with him.
In "The Butterfly" Mr.. Cain
moves easily from his California
roadsides and Nevada gold fields
across the continent to a region
he seems to know as well. He did, in
fact, as he explains in his preface,
once work in the coal fields along
the Big Sandy and its tributaries.
Mr.. Cain deals with a theme which
Evening star., 1947-01-26

SALT MINES AND CASTLES, b.
Thomas C. Howe, jr tBobbs-Mer
riID. An account of the recovery c
Europe's stolen art treasures by
museum director who has a navf
officer was assigned the task of re
.laiming this priceless loot.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Fannie Hurst Finds
Anew Heroine in
The Supernatural
THE HANDS OF
VERONICA
By Fannie Hurst. (Harber s.
Bros: S2.75.)

This popular author has told in
her new novel an unusual story of
an ordinary girl who discovered &C
cidentally that she had a miraculous
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Booth Torkington's Lenvoi Is Worthy
Contribution to American Literature
THE SHOW PIECE
By Booth Harrington. (Dou.
hIodov. 81
Reviewed by
CARTER BROOKE JONES

w YHAT should or should no.
NA/ have been done with the
wv unfinished work which
Evening star., 1947-01-02
1916 Steel Production
UnequaIed in Any
Year Prior 10 1910
BY the A.seeiuied Press

/ NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The Ma
tons steel mills in 1916 rolled out a
tonnage unequaled in any year
prior to 1910.
Total production, achieved despite
major strikes, was around 65, 800 900
tons of ingots and steel for cast
ings.
This was enough figuratively to
have run out of the country's in
dustrial ears in any normal peace
time year.
But industry absorbed the huge
amount and clamored- for more.
Steel was basic need not only
for automobiles and an extended
list of other articles long out of pro-
duction, but for industrial recon-
version and replacement Of worn
equipment.
Capacity Much Larger.
'Tf l947 witnesses another series
of major strikes, then shortages of
steel will be prolonged despite the
best efforts of the industry. But, If
operations are strike-free, enough
steel can be turned. out to restore
within a. few months balance be-
tween supply and demand" declared
Walter S. Tower, president of the
American Iron and Steel Institute.
He cited these facts:
Annual capacity of the industry
has been lifted to nearly $4,000, 900
tons, some 100000 larger than in
1941.
Capacity for sheet and strip steel,
used principally for consumer dura-
BILE goods, is 100000 tons larger
than 1941, with another 2,500,000
tons due to come into operation in
1947.
Steel companies in 1916 earmarked
some 1927 900 900 for expansion and
Improvement of their finishing mill
facilities.
Principal blows to the indllstry's
operations in 1916 came from the
steel strike, which depressed pro-
duction to a low of ST. per cent of
capacity in the week of January 81,
and the two coal strikes which cut
off many of the mills from needed
supplies. Without these Interrupt
tions, Mr.. Tower estimated, output
would have topped 100000 tons.
Huge Loss Suffered.
The financial effect of the strikes
was enormous. United States Steel
Corp, the giant of the industry, es-I
Evening star., 1947-01-02
Commodity Index Soors

NEW YORK, Jan. 2 DIDO
mestic and foreign events played an
important part in the gyrations OF
commodities during 1916 as mea-
sured by the Associated Press
weighted index OF IS major sensi-
tive staples which finished the year
at 1870, close to the historic high
of 160.72 Of December "a. A year
ago the figure stood at 1880. The
normal or base year is 1925, which
is equal to 100
Evening star., 1947-01-02

| timated the combined cost 10 1t OF
the steel strike and the two-inontfl
coal stoppage that started April !
totaled $1,000 900 without allowance
for products which might have been
produced and sold but for these dis
ruptions. Costs to smaller concerns
we're proportionately less.
Also affecting profit-and-loss state
ments during the year were:
The 1871 .cents-an-hour wage in
crease granted to settle the steel
strike:
A $5-a-ton-average price increase
for steel products approved by the
Office of Price Administration;
Further price adjustments after
controls ended, and
Increased costs of raw materials,
along with boosts In railroad freight
rates.
Evening star., 1947-01-02
Rapid Growth Forecast
For Aviation Industry

BALTIMOREA Jan. 2.-During
1947 the aircraft industry win con-
tinue its relatively rapid rate Of
growth despite any temporary diff
culties facing it and regardless of
any handicaps imposed. by economic
or labor upsets in industry generally.
Glenn L. Martin said today.
Martin, the only aviation pioneer
still actively heading his own COM
pany, also predicted that 1947 would
be the busiest peacetime year In the
history Of the Glenn l.. Martin Avia-
ton Corp.
Evening star., 1947-01-02

Ira c. Whitacre
DR.. B. G. wilkinson
william M. Wright
Dwight l.. Smith
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-11-07
jai dovaneles labiau reikalin-
COS. M. Sims.
MIRE MARIJONA SIRVAI-
TIENE

Marijona sirvaitiene (Use-
liute), SO metu, zmona Leono
sirvaicio, nuo 4308 Tyler ST.,
palaidota Rugs Is. Velione
buvo gimus Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Rytineje Detroito Lietuviu
kolonijoje j buvo zinoma kaip
gabi dainininke ir darbsti Lie
tuvaite. ii dainuodavo visoms
Lietuviu organizacijoms, kas
tik ia paprasydavo.
sirvaiciai isaugino savo gra-
zia Selma, du sunus ir iris du-
kteris. Jai mirus jau buvo du
jos anukai.
Laidotuviu pamaldos atsibu-
vo sv. Jurgio Lietuviu bazny-
Cioje. Sermenyse ir palydeji-
me j kapus. dalyvavo didele mi
MIA zmoniu. Vyt. Markuzas.