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Evening star., 1947-05-18
These Come Out
OF a SnoWstorm
THE GREAT SNOW
BY Henry Morton Robinson
(Stmon G. Schuster; $2.75.)
Reviewed by
GAIL BRAMHALL.

fStmon G. Schuster; s2.75.)
| Reviewed by
GAIL BRAMHALL.
| Henry Morton Robinson has writ.
ten very deity of what would hap.
pent if it showed for 20 days in ane
around New York City.
| Rustin Cobb, Mr.. Robinson's mair
human guinea pig in the 277-page
snowstorm, is successful patent
lawyer and extra -to-do COM
muter.
Everything goes fine until the
week end of the big snow and Cobt
gets showed in with the books re.
manning eight characters, each oil
whom has a new Illustration OF
phobia for every page.
From there, Mr. Robinson lets his
people bungle their lives all up In
an amazingly lifelike and readable
manner.
Ruston Cobb has just had his
home partially destroyed by the
storm, his partner has perished ir
the snow. Only few pages earlier
he buried his homosexual son who
died Of pneumonia.
He has just ended an unhappy
affair with his wife's sister who is
drinking herself to death. His wife
is kleptomaniac among other
things, and also has just ended an
unhappy affair with an artist.
Our hero stands by window and
says, There are so many of us. This
is the commonest case in the world.
And that's all. The reader takes
tup the Illustration where Mr.. Rob-
inson stopped.
He probably had to go shovel snow
Evening star., 1947-05-18
Lonny Budd Goes
On q New Mission
MISSION

PRESIDENTIAL MlSo1ON
BY Upton Sinclair. (Viking,
$780, ....
This time the unconQuerable
Lanny Budd, in the eighth book OF
his adventures, embarks on a new
series of missions for the late Presl-
dent Roosevelt at the darkest hour
of the recent war. America recently
has been drawn into the war. and
nothing but defeats have followed.
But when Lanny finishes his final
mission-for this volume, at least
Germany rapidly is being softened
up by bombers for her ultimate de-
feat. Did Lanny have part in all
this? Did he! His old readers will
guess now much when they open the
book. When they reach page Sal,
the finish line. they'll wonder If the
war could have been won without
Lanny.
Sure Gets Around.
They'll read, meanwhile, Of some
-tingling Buddian exploits.
Lanny first goes to France, where
in one of his favorite DISCUSSES, that
of Naziphile, he reports on the
doing OF the vichy crowd and their
German pals. Then. at Mr. Roose-
velt's request, he goes to North AZ
rica to smooth the way for the in
vasion. During the Casablanca
conference. the President sends him
to see Stain, but the plane is shot
down on the desert and Lanny is
captured by German troops. Is be
daunted? Well, hardly. After all,
he's an old friend of Hitler. and so
Lanny causes phone call to be put
through to Der Fuehrer. who
promptly sends for the supposed
pro-Nazi American traitor and
spills plenty. Lannys month in
Germany, what he uncovers, and
how he gets out fern the final
phase Oh the Stofy.
Advises War Leaders.
1t might be explained for those
who haven't met Lanny that he's a
sort of combination of Nick Carter
Sherlock Holmes and Sir Galiahad
There are, you'll gather, no flies on
him. If you can accept such a
character. you'n find his adventures
readable enough.
Lanny's experiences. which started
In World War 1, with the book called
Worlds End" are told against q
lavish background of current events
painted in the colors of Mr.. Sim
clair,s gentle socialism. How many
other volumes are TO follow only Mr.
Sinclair knows. Or perhaps ever
he doesn't. &C. B. ].
Evening star., 1947-05-18
Reviewed by
JOSEPH A. FOX.

- a.
Embarking on what he describes
as new study Of woodrow Wilson
Mr.. Link, a member of the history
department of Princeton University
presents the first volume of a pro-
jected series on the life and times
Iof the 9th President of the United
States.
The period covered has hitherto
been the least publicized of Mr.
Wilson's career, which probably Is
bounded in the public mind more
often than not by the Balti-
more convention OF 1912 from which
he emerged as the head OF the DEM
ocratic Party, and his losing fight
for the League of Nations. Mr.
Link brings into sharp focus now
the background against which Will
son came on the national scene
first as militant president of Prince
ton University and then as Gov
ernor of New Jersey-and the sharp
and often bitter maneuvering which
preceded his entry into the White
House.
The Wilson pictured by the author
is a creature of shifting positions.
Hope of the conservatives at the
outset of his public life, he became
a left-of-center progressive. Once
regarding William Jennings Bryan
and his political philosophy disdain-
fully, he ends with an arm around
the Conmoner's shoulder. The pur-
suit of Office. caused him to retract
from strong anti-labor views, and to
apologize profusely for writings that
held immigrants from Central and
Southern Europe up to scorn.
The record compiled by Mr.. Link
demonstrates rather conclusively
that Mr.. Wilson was largely a
political accident" His mentor
was George B. Harvey, noted editor
of the North American Review and
Harper's Weekly, who first saw Will
son as a presidential possibility
about the time the latter was assum-
ing the direction of Princeton. Eight
years later, Harvey deemed the time
ripe to act, and mustered the ma
chine support in New jersey that
gave Mr.. Wilson the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination.
The State had tired of Repub-
hcan rule, the candidate pitched
his campaign in the direction of
liberals of both parties and the
,@ec,,Jf Sysat
Then Mr.. Wilson ditched the
machine, drove through reform laws
in the 1911 legislature for which
progressives in the. State had been
crusading for decades, and by 1912
an organized movement was under
way to make him the Democratic
presidential nominee. AS this goal
neared, he broke with Harvey, who
unhappily had seen his ''conserva-
tive" protege become the leader Of
the Democratic progressives.
Mr.. Link does not agree with
those who have ascribed the ulti-
mate Wilson triumph over Champ
Clark in the dog fight" at the
Baltimore convention to the sup
port he received from Bryan. The
possibility that the Missourian could
get the needed two-thirds vote al
ready had disappeared when Bryan
swung to Wilson, the author says.
He Is careful to give Bryan certain
amount of credit, but argues the
determining factor was that the
Wilson delegates, and those pledged
to Oscar w. Underwood-wFo hoped
to be compromise choice Of the con-
Evening star., 1947-05-18
Romantic Story
OfOId Mexico
IsoLWely One
PAQUITA
By Robert Reynolds. putnam;
PAQUITA
Reviewed by
CARTER BROOKE JONES.

%
"Paquita" is by way of being q
comedy of morals and manners
about the Mexico of the early 10Th
century. It Is. with its hearty
measure of hunor, something OF Q
satire on Mexican society of the
times: certainly it's far from
conventional historical novel.
This is not to say that the story
Is without intrigue and excitement
those ingredients which are sup
posed to be as necessary to histori-
cal romance as sugar and -four are
to cake. "Paquita" has. more
over, a serious undertone. In its
glimpses of the expressions inflict-
ed on the natives, with their mix
ture of bloods, by the Spanish aris-
~tocracy. The narrative traces the
beginnings of the revolution which
was to oe successful in a matter
of years.
Authors Tongue In Cheek.
But I suspect that the author
of Brothers in the West" Harper
prize novel of a few years ago.
mixed the romantic formula OF
"Paquita" with tongue pressed firm
ly against cheek. He does, in fact,
at times kid with gusto the deca-
dent survival OF chivalry and the
ceremonial fourisi1es Of old Spain
so different from the actual mo-
tives and deeds of emigrant Span
iards. They were. beneath all that
fluff, very practical people.
Paquita herself is lovely and con-
fused enough at 17-quite an age
for a lady of that day-to serve as
heroine for several romances. She
is a little different: Unlike most
ssuch gals, she has CLEANS OF intel
ligence now and then, a mind that
even dares to inquire. The daugh-
ter of 100 per cent Spaniard, owner
of mines and vast estates, she
throws her family into consterna-
ton by announcing that she in
tends to take the veil. This Is an
impulse, brought on by a sudden
sensitiveness to beauty and admira-
ton for the voice of a certain
priest.
From Ascetic to Romantic.
She abandons this project in time,
perceiving that she hasn't the true
vocation, but her life encounters
another dilemma as she turns from
the ascetic to the romantic. She
thinks she loves the titled Spaniard
with whom her father originally
planned to arrange marriage. But
the count to whom she becomes
affiianced is carrying on a flagrant
affair with a great lady whose hus-
band, conveniently, has been sent
to the Philippines. Then there's
the Indian artist, Ramon, whom
Paouita finally realizes she loves.
Ramon embarrassingly has espoused
the revolutionary cause OF the peo-
pie, which makes him anathama
to her family and friends. Only
Uncle Hilario, who long ago sold
out to his higher nature. under-
stands and condones. 1t is, in
deed, twisted skein to unknot.
Perhaps one is apt, in savoring
the salty characters which people
this book, to overlook or take for
granted the rich descriptions and
sharp atmosphere with which Mr..
Reynolds colors it.
I hope you'll enjoy "Paquita" as
much as I did.
Evening star., 1947-05-18

reddish eartn,
from his father.
With the COM
ing Of the Amer
leans to Califor-
mia, Pablo goes
to Cornw ell
England, to learn
q b out mining.
To learn more.
he next goes to
the famed mer-
curry m In e 5 Of
Talavera, Spain,
where he meets
and persuades q
hall : mad min
ing genius. Jose
N6~ .aar "a aas,a
Evening star., 1947-05-18
Princeton History Professor Pictures
Woodrow Wilson as Political Accident
WHSON-THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Ru Arthur s. Link fPrinceton University Press, So

on-held their lines and pre-
vented a landslide for Clark.
Turning to the election, which
found the Republican ranks split
by the bolt of Theodore Roosevelt
Mr.. Link expresses the view that
this situation also would have per-
mitted the election of Clark. Had
an avowed conservative been named
by the Democrats however, he be-
lieyes that Democratic progressives
would have joined forces with
Roosevelt, and that a genuine Pro-
gressive Party, combining the
liberals of both major parties, might
have been launched.
Evening star., 1947-05-18

Russell Janney. 1T is moro than I
book" cried Mr.. Cantor cxeitcdly.
tits show business : its ergtcrtain.
inent its good Amcricanism : it,s
iinc reading for both Christian and
Jew. | defy you 10 read THE MIR.
.ACLE OF THE BELLS and nOs
bcconlc a better person
The MIRACLE OF THE
BELLS. recommended by Eddie
Cantor. is ON sale at all bookstores
At $500 copy.
Evening star., 1947-05-18
THE SUNDAY SYAR, washington, d. G.
SUNDAY, 10 is1.
Wartime Intrigue
CAIRO CONCERTO

BY John Rogers Shumarl. fHnr-
court Br1ce e Co, $2.75.
This Is Get In the half world Of
wartime intrigue IN Cairo. Mr..
Shuman writes well and introspec-
lively from within his assorted
characters. Unfortunately this
very introspectiveness clouds and
confuses his story telling. It y
easier to tell what his characters
think than why they think 1t.
- e. II.
Evening star., 1947-05-18
|VERMILION
BY Idwal Jones. fPrentice-Hal
Inc, y3.
Retrieved hy
STANLEY HAITI.

A hundred years 81 California his
tory Is written into this novel about
the Cope dynasty and : quicksilver
milne. The story begins with Pablo
Cope, the son Of an immigrant Eng
lishman, who had married into an
|aristocratic and propertied Spanish
family when California was still 4
province Of Mexico.
Pablo is q stalwart youth with vast
determination and q bent for mining
inherited, along with Z plot Of strange
Evening star., 1947-05-18

BUNA RUBBER. BY Frank A
Howard. ID. Van Nostrand Co.:
$3.75.) The story Of the birth and
development Of the synthetic rub
Iber industry.
Evening star., 1947-05-18
Eddie Cantor
Praises
Best-Seller
HnI.IYWNnn

HOLLYWOOD
CSpeciaD y Eddie
Cantor. Ameri.
cas- beloved com.
cdian. stopped
production on
his new picture.
" Yon KneS
Susie, to tell his
cast about THE
MIR ACLE OF
THE BELLS. Z
neW nnyel Inv
Evening star., 1947-05-18
Susan Kerby Traces
IA SdtiricoI Sketch
In Sunny Italy
FORTUNES GIFT

FOHIUNES GIFT
BY Susan Kerby. (Dodd Mead
& Co.: $3.50
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.
Postwar cosmopolitan life seems
to be little altered from the pre-
war form in this novel of Miss
Kerby's.
Evening star., 1947-05-18

woodrow Wilson sho0n NTH his family Just after he Das
elected President The first Mrs Wilson Is seated beside him.
and his three daughters standing They from the
left Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Jessie Woodrow Wilson mrs
Francis Saure OF Boston, Eleanor Wilson MRS William
Gibbs McAdoo) Underwood q Underwood
Evening star., 1947-05-18

Mendoza, to come and run his mine
in California.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
On the Record
British Labor Party's 'Austerity' Bill
Called Fancy Name for Poverty

prisers-also an odd way to get dol
lars.
People seem always to learn the
hard way. The British people will
learn that state capitalism (called
socialism, must, by its nature, de-
velop in totalitarian directions and
always produce "austerity"-a fancy
name Tor poverty. A nice semantic
problem is involved. Would Mr.
Attlee's bill have been accepted II
labeled a poverty" bill?
If private enterprisers misutilize
their capital they 60 broke. It is
painful for them and their workers
But If governments misutilize the
peoples capital they make q disas-
trous gamble with the lives and for.
tunes Of the nation. Then the only
thing the people can do-usually toe
late-is vote them out Of office. Al
this point, even that privilege IL
usually denied.
Soviet Famine Due to Plan
The socialist Mecca, the Soviet
Union, is the only country inhabited
by white men that, in war or peace
has had q famine with mass starva-
ton in the last 80 years. 1t was the
result of government "plan"-to
collectiyize agriculture.
No government planned" the
automobile industry. It was cooked
UP largely in the head Of a machin-
ist named Henry Ford.
No government planned" the re-
lease Of atomic energy with all its
future potentialities. Government
appropriated money after nongov-
ernment people conceived its pos
sibility, and only under pressure OF
war when any chance would be
taken for definitive weapon. In
peace no government would have
risked q fortune on mathematical
formula and the speculations of a
few scientists. Yet atomic energy
eventually would have been devel-
oped through the imagination c1
private persons. All imagination
resides in private persons-never in
committees.
The chief trouble with a govern
ment-planned economy is that even
tually nothing can be done that isn't
In the plan. Bureaucratic socialism
absorbs energy. It neither creates
nor releases 1t. A nobody with q
hunch can 60 out and rustic for the
capital of a few nuts who think
maybe he has something. The
bureaucrats control all capital ano
are allergic to imagination. It's ar
occupational disease.
But I wouldn't agree with Eric
Johnston that the loss of the British
market necessitating retrenchment
In Hollywood need mean poorer anc
fewer pictures for Americans. More
self-imposed thrift would result moi
in worse but better pictures-a.
British films have demonstrated.
released by the Bell Syndicate. 1nc.) .
Evening star., 1947-08-13

ing to leave in sterling an ever
greater proportion of money COL
tected there and thus protect British
dollar balances. Now the reaction to
be expected here will be pressure to
take reciprocal action against British
pictures. Too bad, for we like British
pictures. Who gains? The British
had far better have worked for a
balance of exchange, making British
pictures here balance what American
pictures taken from Britain.
1t is an odd way to promote British
exports by making it practically i'm
possible for British businessmen to
travel abroad.
How does the British government
expect its products to be promoted?
The United States Government does
not purchase British porcelain,
leather, textiles, etc, through British
diplomatic agents.
Private American commercial
firms purchase them from CONNER
cial agents. They need British
statesmen.
Odd Way to Get Dollars.
There is a vast amount of private
American money available for in
veStment abroad which would flow
by preference over other European
countries into Britain, even under
risk conditions. But it won't flow to
the certainty in some industries and
the risk in all of being appropriated
Thus socialism in Britain reduces
loans to such as the American tax
payer is willing to make, excluding
participation of American enter
Evening star., 1947-08-13

kled, making the Henry MeLemore.
landscape look as If all the stars
in the heavens had fallen down and
broken into little diamonds.
Until I saw Rio, nesting between
the sea and the mountains, I had
always thought that the ultimate
in beauty from the air was Los
Angeles and New York at night.
But they cannot compare with Rio.
Being a blithering idiot, with palms,
I will try to tell you what I saw
when Capt. Briggs, out Of courtesy
to those Of us who had never seen
Rio, circled the city before landing
his ship.
Sun Still Young.
The sun was still young enough
to be gentle with the colors it gave
to the landscape. The long combers
that rolled in against Copacabana
Beach were fired with red as they
broke, just as If they had been
brushed with torch and were afire.
Then, after breaking, they slithered
in snowy white and foamy. This,
alone, was enough to take ones
breath away. If Rio had only the
sea 1t would still be one Of the
worlds loveliest cities.
But back Of the sea are the noun
tains. They don't look like ordinary
mountains. They are massive and
rounded by the beat Of centuries of
weather, resembling giant camel
humps. The mountains are covered
with lush vegetation, and the dawn
sprayed them with color.
Dominating the mountains is what
the Bradlians call Pao de Acucar,
but which have shortened to Sugar
Loaf. Sugar Loaf was every color
the sun could paint it. Blue, pink,
green, crimson, seven shades of
yellow and all the others. So was
Corcovado, known to Americanos as
Hunchback, and Bico do Papagaio,
known as Parrots Beak.
AS the sun rose higher the great
avenues of Rio could be seen, with
their sidewalks of black and white,
snakelike mosaic tile You never
have seen sidewalks like those in
Rio. American sidewalks are dull.
Just lot Of gray concrete. But in
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Indonesian Warfare Offers L. S. Chance
For Moral Leadership in Far East

But what right have they to be
carrying on q limited" police opera
ton" In territory that they have
recognized as a de facto republic? +?
This situation called for instant
action. And what did the United
States do about it? Precisely moth
ing except to wait for India and
Australia to take the issue to the
United Nations, which fortunately
has called for arbitration. President
Roosevelt had no hesitation in tell
Ing Queen Wilhelmina to her face
when she was in Washington what
he thought Of political conditions In
1ndonesia, as well as in Curacao and
in Surinam.
The Dutch, for the benefit of their
own, as well as English and Ameri-
can investors, have been exploiting
these extremely rich lands for about
300 years. During that period the
annual income of the natives has
been as low as $50 a year while the
bare literacy Of the people has been
raised to a pitiable 10 per cent as
compared with. the Filipinos who are
80 per cent literate, after only ap-
proximately so years of American
occupation.
Can 1t be true that the United
States was too color-conscious or too
money-mad to say to the Dutch that
they might not use our equipment
and our money to subjugate a help
Less people in order that. they might
nave cheap labor? Does not Wash
ington realize that it has placed
moral leadership in the Far East
in jeopardy?
tCopyrisht, 1e47)
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Rio you walk along sidewalks as
dazzling as a palace floor.
Ride Through Harbor.

Rio you walk along sidewalks as
dazzling as a palace floor.
Ride Through Harbor.
The Pan American airport is quite
a ways from the city. You land
then board launch and have a long
ride through the harbor. But, II
would be silly man who would OBJ
ject to this trip. The launch bounces
and bumps along through ships
whose names and flags come from
all over the world. The launch
skitters by freighter from Holland
picks up speed to pass q boat headed
for Liverpool, slows down to give the
right of way to a merchant marine
boat flying the Stars and Stripes
headed for New York.
Going through customs is simple
1t was a little tough in Belem. first
port of entry into Brazil. There
without any warning. you are seated
on hard benches and a thermometer
stuck In your mouth. Nothing looks
sillier than half q hundred adults
sucking on Thermometers. 1t will
break down the reserve of the most
conservative man or woman in the
world. No one can be stuffy with a
thermometer in his mouth.
In Rio visitors are rushed through
They like Americans down here and
cut the red tape to a minimum. I'd
write more, but want to go out now
and find what they do on a rainy
night in Rio. Excuse please.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc J
Evening star., 1947-08-13


tionship in connection with politi-
cal problems in Western and South
ern Europe.
Among the matters to be dis
cussed will be the question of main
tenance of British troops in Greece
and also Venezia Giulia, until Rus
sia and Yugoslavia decide to ratify
the peace treaties with Italy.
The British governments deci-
sion to. withdraw its token forces
from those areas, without first in
forming its War ONCE, created a
furry two weeks ago in the State
Department. Secretary of State
Marshall Immediately sent strongly
worded inquiry to London. the Sc
quel to which was the decision to
send the British mission to Wash
ington for a canvass of the general
political situation.
Leftist Pressure Group.
Prime Minister Attlee's admins
tration is In an even more diff
Ct1t kOS4t2Oll tlldl1 ClldG VI ( 4Cl1uCA
Paul Ramadier in France. The
French Socialist leader has man
aged to weather many storms by
compromise and occasional tough
ness.
The 10 non-C Communist political
parties in the French parliament
support Premier Ramadier. Some
times this support is lukewarm, as
is inevitable in any coalition, but
on the whole Premier Ramadier is
holding his own better than was ex-
pected two months ago.
Prime Minister Attlee's situation
is less favorable. He has against
him not only the Conservatives, led
by acid-tongued Winston Churchill,
but also a strong minority group In
his own party. The latter are far
more worrisome than the former.
This strong -willed leftist group
aims to impose its will by hook or by
crook. They are not exactly Com
munists, but their policies are closer