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Evening star., 1948-05-30
A Woman Lobbyist
Tells of a Long
Fiuht for Peace
APPOINTMENT ON THE HILL

APPOINTMENT ON THE HILL
BY Dorothy Deter. (Henry
Holt; s3.)
Dorothy Detzer, "the most famous
woman lobbyist" has here set down
a spirited, impassioned, sometimes
amusing, account of her 20-year
stewardship in the cause OF peace
AS executive secretary of the Wom-
ans International League for Peace
and Freedom, she buttonholed Sen
ators by the score, stormed every
of Government and even
managed to- resist the Roosevelt
charm. From these many meetings
she has fashioned revealing anec-
dotes of famous official personal
tiles. While her ultimate cause was
lost, she achieved, through prodigies
of persistence and persuasiveness,
much good for a suffering humanity.
Incidentally, her book should clear
up many misconceptions about lob
byists. If they are all like her, they
are as hard working, resourceful
and resilient as any group in Wash
ington. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Reviewed by
J. A. OLEARY, Jr.

Fiorello H. La Guardia stood out
as a dynamic, colorful independent
in American politics, and this VOL
ume Is his own story of how he be-
came an insurgent. It covers only
the first 81 years of his life, be-
cause he died last September while
in the midst of his autobiography.
It Is not a brilliant book, but is in
teresting because it covers that part
of Mr.. La Guardia's career which is
least known. It Is fortunate that he
had time to cover these early years
himself. Mr.. La Guardia was born
in New York City in 1882 to immi-
grant parents. His father became
the leader of an Army band and the
future Mayor of New York spent his
boyhood on an Arizona military post.
From that point on the book is the
Alger- like story of how he worked
his way up as United States con-
sulate clerk overseas, an Immigra-
ton Service employe in New York
and through the study of law. His
close contact with immigrants,
struggling to get a foothold in this
new land, apparently had much to
do with making him an insurgent
and a fighter for the under-dog in
politics.
M. r. Werner, who was assisting
Mr.. La Guardia on research for his
autobiography, is preparing to cover
in later book the remainder of the
Little Flowers" colorful career, in
cluding IA years in the House, IL
years as Mayor of New York. and
finally as director of |UNRRA at the
close of the war.
For members of this Congress,
struggling with the issue of reviv-
Evening star., 1948-05-30

London, and the household includes
her nephew, just out of the war,
and her companion, girl the
nephew spends a lot of time with.
Then comes Simon Broken. Isabel's
brother -in-law, an irrascible, mid
dle-aged lawyer. But things are
going smoothly enough until
Isabel discloses that she has invited
a one-tinle family retainer and
distant relative, spinster named
Tilly Cuff, to come and stay in
definitely Isabel confesses that she
did Tilly great wrong years ago
when they were girls. The least
she can do So.
But to reveal more perhaps would
lessen your enjoyment of the tale.
II is enough to say that Tilly does
not turn out quite as the family
expects, nor do later events.
Miss Sharp writes amuSingly, as
her readers know This story gets
unoer way pretty slowly Very little
happens in the first 100 pages ex-
cept the introduction of characters
and a sketch of their background.
After that the narrative picks up,
and the final chapters are dramatic
enough. Tilly appears as a rather
detestable person, but she gains
what she most wants and, in the
end, you wonder whether, after all,
she isn't the heroine of this some
what anachrOniStic romance
The year is 1916, but some Of the
characters spend most of their time
worrying about their adolescence
early in the century, and the rest
don't seem much concerned with
the tragic state of the world "The
Foolish Gentlewoman" is Book
of-the- Month Club selection.
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larity in colonial government Is
amply documented by the testimony
of the islanders and the report OF
his superior officer, Harold L. Ickes,
then Secretary of the Interior.
It's very lack of rancor and bitter
ness adds to the effectiveness of
"All Our Years" Mr.. Lovett frankly
nationalism and financial
and worked openly for
their defeat in this country. Under
the pressure of today, which de-
mands that every man stand up and
be counted, he has remained in his
corner, an unreconstructed and
liberal. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1948-05-30

United States Government, espe-
cially to sift evidence of Nazi
persecution of Christianity.
The American public is doubly
indebted to Father Walsh for this
work. The manuscript on which he
had labored for two years might
have been lost in a fire at Mulledy
Hall at the university in February,
1947, had he not run in at great
personal risk to save it from the
flames.
Total Power" measures up to its
title. AS an exposition of geopoli-
tics-the influence of geography on
history and national policy-it goes
all the way from Aristotle's obser-
vations in classic era to Americas S
responsibilities, geopolitical and
otherwise, in an atomic age.
Analyzing the anatomy Of revo-
luton, it compares our own coun-
try,s revolutions and Nazi and
Communist patterns. In so doing,
it contributes arresting answers to
such everyday questions as hard or
soft peace for Germany, how to
handle Russia, and can 1t happen
here?"
The scholarly work, dealing with
often profound but always vitality
practical matter in clear-cut Ian
guage for the layman, is more than
a match for totalitarian thinkers. !"
1t replies also to those who try to de-
fend democracy diluted with social
injustices and to those others who
profess to champion democracy In
the United States by forever harping
on its weaknesses. 1t hands down
a historic indictment of those any
where who cannot see the difference
between real greatness and mere
physical superiority in men or ma
tions.
Early chapters tell, usually with
verbatim records, an engrossing but
horrifying story of German geopoli-
tics corrupted by leading exponent,
Karl Haushofer, and used by the
Nazis as an excuse for international
theft, power politics and barbarity.
Father Walsh regards the sys-
tematic. swift and high-powered
stimulation of the geopolitical con-
sciousness of the German people as
"one of the most amazing intellec-
tual phenomena Of the times"
While writing the obituary Of the
NaA scheme, he cites Soviet Russia
as the new and far more expert
claimant in geopolitical objectives
wholly beyond her defense require
ments. Having had the privilege,
not accorded many Americans, of
seeing at close hand the start of the
Russian revolution and the spread
of world communism since 1917, Dr.
Walsh is factual, authoritative and
to considerable extent hopeful.
He emphasizes that the alterna-
tive for the future is between COM
munism and democracy. But he
tells the United States and the
world that democracy, to prevail,
must be genuine, realistic and
"chastened' by moral discipline.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
EARLY Years of a Friend of the Under Dog;
The Little Flower Tells His Own Story

ing the draft or establishing uni
versal military training, there is an
object lesson in the closing pages Of
the La Guardia book. Mr.. La
Guardia frankly confesses that he
made a mistake in 1919 when he
helped cut down the size of the
Army. He had just returned to his
seat In the House from service with
the Air Corps in World War I, and
thought there was no danger of an
other war. In 1947, a few months
before he died, Mr.. La Guardia came
out in support of universal military
training to preserve the peace won
in World War II.
Evening star., 1948-05-30


on an appropriations bill which
cut off his salary and forbade him
any further Government employ
ment. This unprecedented action
was later declared unconstitutional.
At a time when some Government
officials have found that liberal
views and associations have i'm
periled their jobs, the account Of
this distinguished victim Of the
House American Committee is
of particular moment and coHsti-
tutes the most absorbing portion Of
his mellow, beautifully written au-
TOPOGRAPHY. The committee, then
under the Craftsmanship of Martin
Dies. focused its charges Of sub
version on a statement in a personal
letter in which Mr.. Lovett referred
to all governments as rotten and
his admitted membership in several
united front" organizations. In a
prepared statement for the commit
tee, he explained that his whole
career had been directed toward
in the maintenance of civil liberties
and world peace" He was, he says
elsewhere, an inveterate joiner, who
joined everything when invited
except the Socialist Party)." He
pointed out that while he had never
worked for communism, he had
worked. in various causes, with Com
munists, whom he had viewed as
human beings capable, like the
rest of us, of giving aid to humane
and generous causes" The COM
,nittee, not admitting such diStinc-
tions, branded him subversive.
Letters to Marketplace.
Mr.. Lovett recounts his Boston
childhood and his education at
Harvard with much humor and
charm. He joined the faculty OF the
University of Chicago when that
institution was in its lusty infancy,
and his long career there was a
happy one, punctuated by many
pleasant family excursions to Europe
He founded poetry club whose
members included GlenWay Wescott,
Elizab beth MADDOX Roberts and Vim
cent Sheean. Up until World War I,
during which his only son was killed
in action, he enjoyed the academic
life, but thereafter he entered the
of public affairs. AS
teacher of literature he consistently
aimed at relating letters to life
Later, as an editor of Dial and as
sociate editor of the New Republic,
he probed the social evils of our
time. He was indefatigable in such
causes as the recognition of Russia,
the Irish Revolution, the La Toilette
Progressive Party. the Sacco YAM
zetti case. On one occasion, while
serving as strike observer, he was
arrested. fact used against him by
the Dies Committee.
He believes that the knowledge
gained through such activities as
the presidency of the League for
Industrial Democracy, which sought
the union of labor and the middle
class, served him well in his five
years of administration in the Virgin
Islands. His industry and popu-
Evening star., 1948-05-30

himself (of the White House Cor
Association), under
takes here to inform the aSpirants
what sort of home life the winner
must expect in the four years or
more beginning next January. It
could make strong men shudder but
it probably will not deter any OF
them from trying.
While Smitty has spent the greater
part Of his seven years around the
No. / House pontit1cating on the
great events Of our troubled times
he has obviously found opportunity
Evening star., 1948-05-30

OppOSlCiol
The new look in campaign litera-
ture was modelled in a recent Re-
publican National Committee PAM
phlet which featured a booklist
promoting such New Deal historians
as James F. Byrnes c'Speaking
Frankly"), Henry Morgenthau, jr.
("Germany Is Our Problem"), and
Elliott Roosevelt ("As He Saw tn.
The idea, according to headquarters,
is that the reading Of the record OF
the Roosevelt era by its own spokes-
men will stiffen fighting spirit in the
ranks.
So far the Democrats have issued
no counterlist advocating the litera-
ture OF their rivals. They point out
that 16 years absence from the
White House has left COP men,
orists with little to write about. Un-
officially, however, they are suggest
ing that This Was Normally" Karl
Schriftgiesser's acid review Of the
Harding, Coolidge and Hoover ad-
ministrations, is an excellent
antidote.
Asked what Republican reading
he was recommending to his team,
Senator j: Howard McGrath of
Rhode Island, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,
had a brisk and ready answer.
We're telling them to read the
record Of the Eightieth Congress"
he said.
The third party, only faction
whose chosen candidate is also an
author, is keeping the whole thing
in the family. They are pushing
Henry Wallace's Towards World
Peace They also expect to get
solidly behind James Waterman
Wise's "Meet Henry Wallace" a
sympathetic study of their man.
Voters. meanwhile, can only sit
back and wonder what this feverish
intellectual activity in the precincts
will come to. Will the hurly-burly
Of headquarters give way to a
library-like silence broken only by
the sound Of turning pages? Will
the bookmobile replace the sound
truck in the coming campaign?
Evening star., 1948-05-30

pleH. JllH ndl -
ron's life got
messed up not
as a result of the
crime, but CO.
incidental with
1t. so that it got
enmeshed in his
mind with other
happenings that
occurred as he
drove with his
wife and little
daughter fro m
Lake George to
New York that
day. And the
murder came to
Evening star., 1948-05-30

to explore the intricate "details OF
how the executive machine operates,
His product herewith could be con-
sidered an adequate textbook for
those who start dreaming at an
early age Of the day when they
might become President.
As for those who have passed the
dreaming stage and are working
hard on the project this year, the
eventual winn1 may never say
truthfully that Author Smith did
not warn him.
Evening star., 1948-05-30

Fan French. a WestcheSter wife,
bored with her husband, might new
er have gotten really acquainted
with the glamour man of the COM
munity, q radio announcer, II the
killer hadn't tried to pick her up
before he found the little girls. But
Curlev and all the neighbOrs rushed
in with the State troopers to hear
her story of being accosted.
Others Affected.
There was the young prodigy at
tending Columbia-the intellectual
psvchopath who poured so avidly
over accounts Of the murder that
finally ...
There was the forlorn father OF
the murdered children. He had two
older girls and his wife was IN
tuberculosis sanitorium. And the
priest who tried to comfort the
bereft family.
There were the little girls playing
in a Manhattan slum, the Oldest
bold, mendacious child who spread
q false story about the old tailor
down the street The aroused fathers
and mothers rushed out one night
toward his shop.
There were other parents who
read the murder story splashed over
the tabloid and worried over their
children. There were those with
maudlin sympathy for the young
murderer. There were others al
fected in different ways.
The narrative moves from one
character to another, flashing back
repeatedly to the more important
ones. 1t is a memorable story.
THE FOOLISH GENTLEWOMAN
BY Margery Sharp. (Ltttle,
Brolrn & Co., So
The author of "Cluny Brown"
end The Nutmeg Tree" has writ
ten another agreeable comedy OF
English mores.
These customs and the problems
inherent in them do not seem to
change much, if you can believe the
lighter novelists. Except for a few
externals like the food shortage and
bomb damage, the events of The
Foolish Gentlewoman" might have
taken place in the Victorian years.
In fact, the publisher assures us
on the dust jacket that 1t is not
Victorian novel, perhaps because
the title suggests it. The drama
does, too.
The Family Retainer.
Isabel Broken, a widow of ma
ture years, is the foolish gentle
woman She is living. at the close
of the war, at Chipping Hill, near
Evening star., 1948-05-30
They Live Happily
Forever Hereafter
BY Elswyth Thane. (DueH
Sloan & Pierce; s2.75J
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

Sabrina and Hilary did not hold
their tryst in quite the way they
would have wished. They had to
wait until death to be united. But
one need not feel too sorry for them
as they will have many happy years
together, haunting Hilary's lovely
old home in the Mendip Hills.
For the most part, "Tryst" is a
ghost story. In 1888 Hilary Shen-
stone looses his life while working
on the northwest frontier of
India as British secret agent. For
many months he is dogged by
homesickness. and 1t is the dead
Hilary who finds his way back to
club in London and to his old home,
Nin's Farthing. Here only two
people are aware of his presence,
Mrs. Pilton, the faithful house.
keeper, and Sabrina. High up in
the top floor room which had been
Hilary's, Sabrina and the unseen
Hilary lead life Of blissful con-
tentment, among his books and his
souvenirs.
A fatal car accident, in which
Sabrina loses her life completes the
tryst, which up until that time had
been sided affair. 1t all makes
good reading.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
DunkHk Chronicle
DUNKIRK

BY A. A. Divine. (Dutton, $4.50J
Nh. Divine, a British naval writer
who himself won a DSM at Dun
kirk, here tells in detail a fully
documented story of the nine his
toric days in which a hastily as
sembled fleet of small craft evacu-
ated 338.682 men of the trapped and
beaten British Expeditionary Force
and the French 1st Army from
beaches battered by German guns
and planes. Names of all vessels
which took part in the rescue oper-
alton, their owners. masters, and of
men receiving honors and awards,
are given in series of appendices.
B. F.
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trying to emulate in his books, be-
cause he feels that Scottish novels
have always been either too violent
or too sweet"
Mr.. McCrone's own credo can
probably be summed up in his state
ment that "one should not show of
in ones books any more than one
should in life.
An enthusiastic traveller and &C.
complished linguist, he is an inter-
nationalist who dislikes the present
nationalist fervor in Scotland. He
would hate to see his country sep
arated from England. On the
whole, he considers the anti English
feeling is more vocal than real"
Evening star., 1948-05-30

The Steam Shovel Family. by Ir-
mengarde Eberle mckay; s2>.-
Tressy and Pete's father was q
steam shovel operator. One day he
decided to take his family across ths
country to California In the old,
wornout family car. This Is the
story Of their troubles In getting
there after the car breaks down.
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Robert Lovett Recounts a Rich Career
Inside and Out of the Classroom
ALL OUR YEARS

BY Robert Morss Lovett THE Viking Press; $375)
Robert Love crowded fruitful educator,
progressive before became
his he his place history the strength OF his
dismissal from this recommendation the Dies
mittee.
B. E Dodd jr, OF
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Reading and Writing
Nov Ward Bosses Must Read Books,
And About the Opposition, Too!
By Mory McGrory

Politics have changed lot since the old of the cambake
moonlight sail conscientious leader
had anything heavier than hrowaway headed
"uldoon BECAUSE ' Now word has gone down
supposed ringing doorbe and
shaking hands-and if please books by and about the
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Next President Won't Be Able to Say
|Merrinon Smith Didn't Warn Him
A PRESIDENT IS MANY MEN
Bv Merrinan Smith (Hnrner X Hr


BY Merriman Smith. (Harper Bros; $2.75J
by JOHN c. HENRY.
year customary quadrenn list
pcants United States In fact
bit longer than usual Without exception those
receiving bales advice and nexper from
the OF the job and the most
effective securing it.
Merrjman has q White House
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Charles Jackson of The Lost Weekend
Examines the Effects of Murder
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JON
THE OUTER EDGES
(Rinehdrt;; $2.75.)

people? Why does the horrible
gruesome compel the detailed scrutiny of with
harmless impulses?
page this engrossng novel, Mr. Jackson
good enough that and thrilled
bloodshed It's easy there's something
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Father Walsh Offers Lasting Formula
For the Preservation of Democracy
TOTAL, POWER,
BY Edmund A. Walsh doubleday G. Co.; So
Reviewed by ROBERT K. WALSH

The president OF Georgetown University and regent OF It's
modesty calls this foonote history
happening
the world.
offers of threvolume inquiry
includes
Evening star., 1948-05-30

a first-hand account, thoroughly
documented, of some perhaps al
ready forgotten or still poorly un-
derstood aspects OF the Nuremberg
war criminal prosecutions. He par
ticipated as a consultant sent by the
Evening star., 1948-05-30
Chess Notes

the first game to be finished in the
exhibition.
Evening star., 1948-05-30

THE MAKING OF AN
INSURGENT:
An autobiography by Fiorello H.
La Guardia. IL. B. Lippincott
Co; $7.75.)
Evening star., 1948-05-30

NTH who has been President in the White House
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-09-24
LAHODNA

ma 70 plavidlech lidske lodni
posadky. Satan a Adolph byli
mezi mimi. Pc vybuchu prvni
bomby nalezeni byli umfraj1c1.
|Otres a teplota jim neuskodily,
ale vystaveni byli alpha a gam
ma paprskGm. S jinymi zv1ra-
|ty, ktera explosi pTeckala, Cd
vezeni byli do mennonite a le-
kari Sc pax pustili houzevnate
do prace, ably je udrzeli pTi Ii
vote. = ZvfTata trpela vnitr-
mimi popaleninami. Zaznamy
v nemocnicich dokazuj1, re o.
betem davan byl pfevod krve
kazdodenne pc 80 dn1 a pax
Jim byl davan pTevod obden,
pc dalsfch 80 dn1.
Je to stestim a nadeji pro
lidstvo, re tato zvffata test sc
nyn1 perfektnimu zdravf. AS
pon lekafi Sc tax domnlvajf.
Kdyz kozlfci byli vystaveni
vybuchu atomove bomby, byli
6mesfcnf. Cd te dolby vyspeli
We statne kozly a mali potion
stvo. Prave proto, re neztra-
till podnost, lekari mysli, re je-
jich zdravotnf stav je uteseny.
Krone kozln Palmer House
byly ukazovany take jine zkaz-
ky, ktere byly uchovany pc a.
tomovych zkouskach u Bikini.
Je tam ukazovana vlajka, KITE
ra byla ma lodi vystavena pfl-
mo 1cink6m vybuchu. Je do
sud radioaktivn1 a takovou
pravdepodobne zGstane pri
nejmensfm 500 rok1. PAX jsou
tam balfky satstva, ktere byly
zanechany ma palubach lodi a
i ty jsou jeste dnes radioaktiv-
nj.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-09-24
Pozar We mlyne " Pisku.

Praha. - 8. zarf vecer Wy
,pukl v P1sku pozar v mlynici
Stredoceskych mlynG, narodnl-
no podniku. Zahy zachvatil
celou. budovu mlynice. Prvni
pTispechal k pozaru mistnf vo-
jensky 1tvar, ktery svym ODE
tavym uasazen1m zachranil
~znacnou cast ohrozene mouky
a obil1. Vnekolika minutach
tn byli hasici, kterym vzorne
pomahalo m1stnf obyvatelstvo.
Celkova skoda cinf vice nez
ctyri miilony Kcs. Bylo znice-
no strojnf zaT1zeni mouky, 25
vagon1 obilf a til vagony mou-
ky. Poole predbezneho vyse-
trent zpdsobilo pozar prehratf
lozisek pc nepretrzitem den
MIN a nocnim provozu. ZaTize-
nj mlyna bylo stareho typu a
stroje byly opotTebovane.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-09-24

Jmena tato byla dana dive
ma kozlnm, kteri v roce 1916
zanechani byli ma lodich u O.
strnvku Bikini v Pacifiku, pr
zkouskach S atomovou bombou.
Kdyz American Roentgen
Ray Society mela schGzi IA. "a
RI v Palmer House. Chicago,
byli tam tito kohl ukazovani.
Ma lodich, ktere u Bikini Wy
staveny byly atomove bonnie,
zanechano bylo ma 5000 r1z-
INCH zvirat, kohl, morcata,
krysy mysi a vepri nahradily
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-09-24
Praha Sc chysta ma veletrh.

Praha. - Pred zahajenim
veletrhu, kdy prijede do Pra-
ny mnoho zahranicnich nav
stevnfkd, je tfeba, ably Sc mesto
predstavilo este a 1Nledne.
Rada mesta Sc obraci ma OBJ
~canstvo, ably samo vlastni kaz-
nj a take snahou Sc pricinilo O
cistotu prazskych ulIc. Ma wy
pracovanf projektu ma stavbu
mostu pres nuselske 1doli po-
volil 1stredn1 narodn1 vybor
celkem 1885, 900 Kcs.
Podrobny projekt vypracu-
lie prof. inz. DIR. S. Bechyne.
Csl. aero-linie rozsirujf 20 do
bu veletrhu provoz temer ma
vsech tratich. Take pc ODE
v~eletrznf nedele budou udrzo-
vati provoz ma ddlezitych ira
itch.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-09-24

Najemnici sahli k svepomoci.
V Bristolu, Angle. - $1,000
najemnlk1 vladn1ho "bytaku"
zahajilo stavku z dIvodu, re
jim byla zdrazena cinze O $3.50
tydne. Ma veTejne schGzi by
10 Wade vytceno, re sama eta
vyss1 najemne nez ma pravo.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-09-24
Spatns Sasv.

Obchodn1k "Prihodilo Sc ne
co zvlastniho zatfm CO jsem
byl pryc?"
Priruci. "Ano, byl zde jeden
zakazn1k."
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-09-24
Poplach.

K panu Nedunovi pribehl sy-
nacek:
"Tati, tati! Mas hned pfijft
k mamince!"
eco je? Co sc stalo?'
ia nev1m - ale ia uz mann
vejprask odbytej!"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-09-24
Obrovsky pocet.

Muz (cte noviny): Ucenci
zjistili, re ma jedne papfrov6
dolarove bankovce je 10000
900 bacilG.
zena: "Ale tot hrozne! Jak
mnoho je jich asi ma petce?"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-09-24
Lekar-odbornik

Premyslel jste n6kdy O man
zelstvf, pane doktore?"
"Zajiste, milostiva. To je
piece videt z toho, re jsem do
sud stale svoboden."