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Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-08-06

LONDONAS. = Pasauline
sporto olimpiada cia visam
ikarstyje. Xxi siol daugiaussisa 2
laimejimu pasieke USA
sportininkai.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-08-06
DEMOKRATU

apsireiskes traskejimas, Ii
novai sake, yra ne kas dau-
giau kaip uzbaigimas Roo
sevelto rezimo. Demokra-
tu partija, sake, nuo to ne
subires.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-08-06
Anglai Siulo Sovietams
Nauja Prekybos
Sutarti


Anglijos vyriausybe pa.
siule SovietQ Sajungai su-
daryti nauja prekybos su-
tarti 140 milijonu doleriu
sumai. Pagal ta sutarti An
glai is Rusu gautQ grudu,
misko ir kitu RusQ zaliavu,
O Rusams parduotu plieno
isdirbiniu, garveziu ir kito-
kiu masinu.
Sovietu prekybine delega.
CHA jau isvyko j Londons
pasitarimams.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-08-06
ZlNIOS IS PAVERG-
TOS TEVYNES

fARTIZANAI APDEDA MO-
hESClAIS BURLIONUS KO-
LONISTUS.
lsveze j Sibira Lietuvos uki-
nlnkus, bolsevikai nepalieka
~ ukiu tusciu: daznai j .ju vie
tas atkelia is Rusijos gilumos
burliokus. Tuo jie, sekdami dar
caro- Petro Didziojo planais, ko-
lonlzuoja Pabaltiji, noredami il
paversti Rusu gyvenama ze-
me. Atkeltieji burliokai gauna
Lletuvos ukininku inventoriu,
gyvulius ir, NKVD globoiami.
cla seimininkauja. Taciau prizes
JUGS stoja Lietuviai partizanai.
Jle nakties metu aplanko to-
klq Rusq kolonistq ukius ir ap-
deda juos toxic didumo mokes-
ciais, kokius moka stambus
Lietuviai ukininkai bolsevi-
kams. Mokesciai imami CRU
dais, pinigais ir ivairiais daik-
tals, galvijais ar mesa. Aisle
me mokescius partizanai isduo-
da kvitus. zinoma, po tckiu
operacijQ burliokams pereina
noras init valdymui Lietuviu
ukius.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-08-06

Paprasti Darbo Zrnones
Turi Daugiau

Neziurint komunistu propa-
gandos kad Amerikoje "turtin-
gieji labiau turteja, biedni
darosi biednesni', skaitlines
parodo ka kita.
Kun. Kelly, is Notre Dame
unlversiteto, dare tyrinejimus
aple U. S. gyventojq ineigas ir
stai ka patyre:
1917 metals, tie Amerikie-
ciai kurie turejo po $4,000 in
eigq metuose, po ismokejimo
visokiu taksu, teliko SUI 7 nuos.
tos sumos. 1914 metals tokias
ineigas turis asmuo teliko su
2 nuos. visos tos sumos.
Tie kurie turejo ineigu ze-
miau $4,000 metuose, sake jis,
zymiai pagerino savo stow.
1917 metals jie turejo 81 nuos.
visu asmeniniu ineigu, arba SAT
bilijonus; 1914 metals jie ga
vo 80 nuos. asmeniniu ineigu,
arba net $40 milijonu.
1947 metals Americas kor-
poracijos gavo pelnu $28 bill
jonus dolariu, is ju valdzia pa
eme $11 bilijonu taksu.
Darbininkai tu korporaciju
dirbtuvesq tuo tarpu algpmis
gavo S1O3 bilijonus. Taigi,
darbininkai Amerikoje neina
biednyn.
KAIP ANGLIJOS SOCIALIZ-
MAS KRUTA
Xiii mano kad valdzia ture-
tu paimti j savo rankas dirbtu-
yes If vlska. AngllJoje socia-
listu valdzia taip jau padare.
Ir stai kaip tas veikia, imant
tik viena atsitikima.
IS Rytu Indijos atvyko j
Londona vienas industrialistas
uzsakyti 81 milijonu vertes
audimo masineriju. Britu is
dirbejai negalejo jam pasakyti
kick tos masinos kastuos pada-
ryti ir kada jos bus galimos
bus pristatyti.
Viskas priklauso nuo to ko-
kiu tempu judes valdzia kuri
dirbtuves kontroliuoja.
Tas industrialistas su savo
81 milijonais dolariu paskubi-
no gauti sekanti lektuva ir at
skrido Amerika tas masinas
pirkti.
AMERIKOS darbininkai da-
bar gauna moketi daug dau-
giau, nors dirba lengviau negu
dirbdavo kitados. Dabar dir
ba 40 valandu savaiteje, kita-
dos dirbdavo po 60 ir 70 va
landu uz visai maza alga.
Unity vadai nusistate kad
darbininkai dirbtu maziausia
kick galima esamose salygose
ir tiki kad yra naudingiau ma
ziau gaminiu padarant, uz di-
deli atlyginima.
Tikrumoje gi Sales ir zmo-
niu turtingumas yra ne pini-
gas, bet tas ka zmones padaro.
Jeigu derlius gules dirvoje, an
glis rasis zemeje, medziagos
nebus 'padarytos j ivairius is
dirbinius, kuriuos kit galetu
sunaudoti - is pinigu jokios
naudos nebus.
| NEWBOUNDLANDAS Try
tineje Kanados puseje) pernal
pagamino virs 1875 milijonus
svaru sudytos Goldfish" zuvies
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-08-06
Naujas Vengrijos
Prezidentas

Vengrijos Prezidentui Til
dy atsisakius is pareigu. jc
vieton, 30 nekomunistiniQ
atstovu apleidus parlamen-
ia, isrinktas komunistas Ar.
pad Szakasits.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-08-06

New YOrkO mieste veikia
virs 1900 registruotu taxi
cabs.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-08-06
LIETUVOS LAISVES KOVO-
TOJAI LIKVIDUOJA
KOLCHOZUS

TOJAI LIKVIDUOJA
KOLCHOZUS
Pagal gaunamas informaci-
jas, bolsevikai tebevaro prize
varta Lietuvos, Latvijos ir Es-
tijos ukininkus j kolchozus. La
biausia jiems vyksta tai Latvi-
joje, kur jau turf pristeige apie
100 kolchozQ. Kick sunkiau Es-
tijoje, gi sunkiausia Lietuvoje,
kur isteigti kolchozai negali
veikti del energingos prizes JUGS
partizanu veiklos.
1947 m. Suvalkijoje, Vilka-
viskio apskrityje Pilviskiu val.
Ausrotu kaime buvo isteigtas
pirmasis sioje srityje kolcho-
zas. 10 zemes pagrinda sudare
12-kos kaimyniniu ukiu zeme.
siq ukininku dauguma bolsevi-
kai buvo isveze j Sibira. Kol-
chozo vedeju buvo paskirtas
Rusas Sokolovski. Gyventoju
dauguma sudare nuo Volgos
atvezti burliokai. Kolchoza sau-
gojo stiprus NKVD dalinys.
Tu paciu metu rudenl, parti-
zanai uzpuole kolchoza ir likvi-
davo apie 40 Rusu sargybiniq.
Kolchozo gyventojai gavo ras-
tiska isakyma apleisti kolcho-
"a savaites begyje, kitaip jie
busia likviduoti.
Kick lengviau bolsevlkams
vyksta kolchozus steigti Klal-
pedos kraste, kur daugumas
ukiu yra visai be savininku.
RELIGIJOS LAISVE SOVIE-
TUOSE sIANDIEN
Netiesa, kad siandien butl
leidziama Sovietq Sajungoje
baznyciai laisvai veikti ir reiks-
tbs. Daugelis baznytiniu pasta
tn tebesa uzdaryti, kitas gi
baznycias lanko tik seniai, ku-
riems iau yistiek kOks likima 5
JUGS istiks.
Jaunuomene, drebedana del
savo gyvybes, nuo religinio gy-
venimo stow nuosaliai. Be to,
sekmadieniais ir kitomis Sven
tomis dienomis bolsevikai orga-
nizuoja viesuosius darbus gat-
viu tvarkymui, medeliu sodini-
mui, sugriautu pastatu valy-
mui ir pan. Juos turf vykdyti
visi be isimties vyrai ir mote
rvs nuo Ia Xxi 60 metu am
ziaus. Isleistas dekretas, ku-
riuo jaunuoliai lkl IL metQ VI
siskai neturi teises lankytl
baznycias. Komjaunuoliai yra
ipareigoti juos stebeti, nereta7
stoveti prie baznycios duru il
IN payardes suregistravus, pra
nesti NKVD istaigoms.
X. Pelekis
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-08-06

NEWBOUNDLANDAS Try
tineje Kanados puseje) pernai
pagamino virs 125 milijonus
svaru sudytos Goldfish" zuvies.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Private Life of Extraordinary Literary
Personality Revealed in Memorial Volume
MYSELF WHEN YOUNG


BY Henry Handel Richardson.
This excellent memorial volume to
Henry Handel Richardson, who was
in private life Ethel F. Lindsay
Robertson, should perform a double
service. For those who have hailed
Maurice Guest" and The Fortunes
of Richard Mahony" as among the
finest novels of the Goth CEN
tury, the photographed fragment
will provide insight into an. eXtraor-
dinary creative personality. And
those who are unacquainted with
her work will almost certainly be in
spired to seek it out after reading
the infectiously enthusiastic essay
on her novels by her husband, Prof.
J. G. Robertson, which is included
in the book.
Henry Handel Richardson died in
1916 before she had completed these
memoirs, which serves instead of
the record which was to have been
written by her husband, who died
before she did. Still she has included
enough Of her family background
and Australian childhood to show
the origins and development of her
genius. Writing with great forth
rightness she has described the
character Of her father who provid-
ed the model for her greatest hero,
Richard Mahoney; pictured the un-
certain early years after his death,
and unSparingly, if ruefully, shown
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Public Library
Ry Constance Stone

1t is a feat to capture in a book
the sharp, clear freshness of North
ern New England, but Frederic Van
de Water has succeeded in "Reluc-
tant Rebel" his novel of early YER
mont. The vigor and obstinate in
dependence Of his characters will
be recognized by those who have
been to New England as still being
traits of the North country people.
The dry humor of Ethan Allen and
his cohorts has not become dulled in
their descendants either. The humor,
as sharply pungent as the sweet
fern on the upland pasture slopes,
has been combined with photo
graphs in the three books by Keith
Jennison, "The Maine Idea" "Ver-
mont Is Where You Find 1t" and
New Hampshire" These make q
good prelude to New England trip,
or perhaps are even better after
ward when both text and pictures
will bring memories.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
w. Norton & Co.,; $3.)

w. w. Norton & Co.; $3.)
the effects on her sensitive mind Of
several adolescent passions. ~
Her early bent was for music, and
her indomitable mother took her to
Leipzig, where the Ignorant young
colonial" as she later described her
self, entered with much gusto
into the continental life. 1t was
there that she met her husband,
with whom she enjoyed many years
of exceptionally happy marriage.
His encouragement and understand
ing were an enormous factor in
the success of her writing.
Henry Handel Richardson's men,
oirs do not suffer from the blight
of much modern Renaissance: Self
pity and total recall. She has
chosen only the relevant episodes
and those which contributed to her
mature point of view. The power
and original flavor of her writing is
suggested in the opening lines: "It
has never been my way to say much
about my private life. Rightly or
wrongly believe this only concerns
myself" This vigorous tone is
maintained throughout.
Her husbands superb apprecia-
ton of her work is marked by much
perception and erudition. He scru-
pulously traces her debt to Russian
and Scandinavian writer's. And he
has quoted just enough from her
novels to show the depth and clarity
of her art. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
The Zionist Cause
In Palestine

PALESTTNE::' LAND OF ISRAEL
Introduction by Pierre Van Pas
sen. Photographs by Herbert S.
Sonnenfeld. (Zif- -Davis Publish
ing Co.; So
Pierre Van Passen has long been
an outspoken advocate of the cause
of zionism in Palestine. Here again,
as skilled workman in words, he
pleads the case of those who have
created the state Of Israel and re-
peats the familiar bitter complaints
against the British mandate ad-
ministration and the ARABIC chau-
whist rage" The book, primarily
a picture volume, is effectively and
sympatheticany illustrated. An
editors note acknowledges that "any
story of the land of Israel must
be partisan" This one isl. c. H.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
IA Militant Pacifist
Depicts England
After the War
THE HOPEFUL HEART
BY Philip Gibbs. (ztt Dauis;
$500
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

When Frank Allingham returns to
England after three years in Ger
man prison camp 1t Is to find q
world Of shattered morals and
smashed illusions. For years Frank
had dreamed of his beautiful wife
Olive, his England and his staid
and prosperous family. OF those
illusions, only the beauty of the
English countryside remained as he
had remembered it. His beautiful
Olive had fallen in love, with her
wartime boss. His ancestral home,
Sandman Court, and his family he
found in equal states of disrepair
and poverty. Gillian, his gay and
vivacious unmarried sister he found
to be the mother of a child whose
American father had been killed
in the air.
Frank Allingham, the man who
had exercised such good and sober
ing influence in Of1ag ga, now
found himself alone with his pri-
vate torture. His job with the
Morning Star was his outlet and
his sole means of expressing his
convictions and his hopes for un-
derstanding and peace among
nations.
Sir Philip Gibbs, who has written
much about freedom and individ-
uality, is also a militant pacifist. As
such he writes sharply and with
strong words. In these times,
though, it would seem that freedom
and individuality are costing the
world more than mere words. Lives
are today's currency.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Who's Going to Win
The Next Election?

Louis H. Bean is one political
forecaster who relies on percentages,
not personalities, in making his pre-
dictions. And his record of right
guesses is so phenomenal that he
has been perfectly justified in call
ing his newly published book "HOW
TO WIN ELECTIONS" It has more
charts and graphs than the Kinsey
report, but, if properly used, it
should make every armchair COM
mentator a seer.
A Statistician who has made a
hobby as well as a career out OF fig
ures, gray-haired Mr.. Bean, q vet
eran of Is years of Government
service, is now economic adviser to
the Secretary Of Agriculture. He
says he fell in love with half page
of election statistics in the World
Almanac II years ago, and the ro-
nance has never cooled.
Mr.. Beans method is so simple
that even a woman baffled by bat
ting averages can follow it. He
makes a chart which shows the re-
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Chess Notes

feated Frank, Trains, Barasch, Mar.
tin; c. Stark. Santasiere, Mengarini.
Pavey and Kramer.
In the final round Kramer and
Isaac Kashdan won difficult end
games from Larry Evans and Nc
Cormick. respectively, thereby over
taking Ulvestad at 9 points and
sharing second, third and fourth
prizes with him. The remaining
four cash prizes were divided by
four players with 81 points-Ar-
thur Bisguier, the youthful cham
pion from the Manhattan Chess
Club; Albert S. Pinkus, Pavey and
Robert Steinmeyer, the young st.
Louis champion. Three players who
made 8 points received merchandise
prizes distributed according to the
Sonneborg- Berger system Of break
ing ties. Ninth went to Mccormick.
much his best performance to date,
and eleventh to G. E. Hartleb Of
Erie, Pa.
Shapiro Captures Tenth Place.
Tenth prize, a handsome wrist
watch, was won by Oscar Shapiro,
champion of the District of Colum-
bia. Mr.. Shapiro finished strongly.
winning from Hartleb in round 8,
then drawing with Rosenberg, de-
feating Balm and Whitaker, and
drawing with Pilnick on the final
day. In this game Shapiro dropped
two pawns in the opening stages
and, with certain loss staring him
IN the face, gave a remarkable ex-
hibition Of grim determination,
fighting back every inch of the way
and eventually, still two pawns down
In a rook ending, forcing a draw by
perpetual check.
The other three Washington en-
tries all made even scores, 6 points
to 6. Stark, who had to meet eight
opponents Of master strength, has
qualitatively the best performance.
He beat Hayes in round 8, then
lost to Kujoth, beat Hobson, lost
to Santasiere and drew with Ilder-
ton. Edmund Nash reached 6-3.
then lost in the last three rounds.
Hugh c. Underwood evened his score
by winning three of his last five
games.
Evening star., 1948-07-25

of-fact way, for, while the life he
describes is made up of trivial in
cidents, drama and tragedy always
lurk on the march or in the billet.
Fate strikes when least expected.
The story starts with the "phony''
war of 1889 and ends in the fighting
that brought the fall of France a
year later.
Mr.. Bost has managed with his
simplicity to convey a sharp sense
of the way average soldiers lived,
waited, fought and sometimes died
The translation of Alfred Van A.
van Duym is colloquial to the point
of turning French argot into Amer
lean slang, some of it more common
among troops than elsewhere. Yet,
however literal or accurate Mr.. Van
Duym's version, it somehow is high
ly effective.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Anthology Makes Admirable c Contribution
Toward Preserving Bostonion Traditions

STATE OF MIND. A Boston Rea,
Edited by Robert N. Linscott. I
Boston as state of mind today
is much more marked outside the
city limits. The curious attitude of
the rest of the Nation toward Bea-
con Hill dates back almost a CEN
tury, when Bostons culture and
self-assurance were beyond chal-
lenge. The decline of this once
proud Athens of America" has
long since been acknowledged by
its inhabitants, but to this day
Bostonians cannot emigrate to
other parts of the country without
having their accents initiated, and
their condescension, inhibitions and
point of view taken pretty much
for granted. This in spite of the
fact that the majority of its citizens
are Irish Catholics who had no part
in shaping the formidable tradition
that has earned Boston a strange
combination of awe and derision
that no other American city has
ever evoked.
Since the newer elements In Bos-
ton life have not yet found a
spokesman-unless you count the
politicians-Mr. Linscott has con-
centrated on proper Bostonians
from Cotton Mather to the late
George Apley. He has used wher-
ever possible eye witness accounts
of episodes from Boston's glorious
history.
From his judicious selections it
is easy to see how godliness, civic
pride, intellectual daring and finan-
cial caution steadily built up to the
high point of high-mindedness
when Boston poured out to the
world a flood of ideas that have
never been paralleled in American
literary annals. For subsequent Pc
riods, when satire replaced philos-
Evening star., 1948-07-25

Fayrar, Straus & Co.: $4.50J
ophy, he has relied on such COM
mentators as Henry James, Henry
Adams (who left Boston for Wash
ington), Arnold Bennett and H. G
Wells, Santayana and Marquand.
1t was Wells who in 1906 said that
despite its passion for learning, Bos-
ton was afflicted with a blindness
to the crude splendor of the posi-
bilities of America now"
That isn't so true any more. There
are indications that the great heri-
tage Of the city will be revitalized
not only by those whose forbears
created it, but by the sons of the
latecomers who love the city as
much.
Mr.. Linscott's anthology is an
admirably rounded one and has
high entertainment value. It will
undoubtedly contribute to the
maintenance Of "the state of mind
M. Meg,
Evening star., 1948-07-25
By Donold n. Mueridqe

The forty-ninth Open Champion
ship of the United States Chess
Federation at Baltimore remained
undecided and absorbingly interest,"
ing right through the 18th and
final round on July II. In round 8
Max Pavey defeated young George
Kramer and stepped back into the
lead with Z points. In the ninth
Olaf Ulvestad of Seattle, who had
been gradually picking up momen-
tum, disposed of Pavey, and joined
Kramer in the lead with 712 points.
In round 10 Kramer and Ulve-
stad drew, thereby permitting Wea-
yer w. Adams to join them in a
triple bracket with 8 points each.
In the 11th Adams knocked out
Kramer and assumed the undis-
puted lead with 9 points, since Ul-
vestad had been held to a draw by
Edgar T. Mccormick.
Adams and Ulvestad met in the
final round, with Ulvestad needing
a victory and Adams only a draw
to secure first place. With the
white men, Ulvestad secured a posi-
tional superiority and eventually de-
veloped passed QRP which seemed
certain to win for him. At this
point he made a tactical oversight
which cost him the passed pawn,
and the game speedily resolved itself
into a draw.
Victory Is Popular One.
Adams, the winner, received an
ovation from the spectators and the
congratulations of a host of friends.
This is his first victory in a tour
nament of this Importance, and it
is very popular one, since Adams
is well known to American chess
players as q diSintereSted lover of
the game, one of its most persistent
and original students, and perfect
gentleman in all competitive situa-
tions.
Adams score of 9h-21s was made
up Of eight wins, three draws and
one loss. He dropped a game to
Carl Pilnick in round 2, and had
III points after round 3; but there
after he yielded only two half
points out of nine games. He de-
Evening star., 1948-07-25

lation of the State vote to the ma
tional vote from 1896 through 1946.
Using the stable difference" be-
tween national and State percent
ages and referring to current polls
on national sentiment, it is possible
to estimate the State vote. It is
the fluctuation of the vote rather
than its volume that is significant.
Using this system in the 1886 elec-
ton, Mr.. Bean was able to guess
from the behavior of Maine in its
September State elections that the
Democrats would win. It was not
that Maine went Democratic, but 1t
varied sufficiently from its tradi-
tional pattern to indicate to Mr.
Bean that the Democrats had the
edge. He must thus be credited with
restoring the bloom to that faded
adage, "As Maine goes, so goes the
Nation"
From his study Of tides" Mr..
Bean believes that the Republican
sweep to power which began in
1886 may have already reached its
peak. The Republican victory in
Congress in 1916 was at least partly
due to an amazingly light vote and
actually obscured a national trend,
according to Mr.. Bean, whose figures
tell him that the stay-at-homes were
preponderantly Democrats. He thinks
that the Democrats might have car
ried national election early in 1948
before the civil rights question,
the third-party demonstration of
strength and the Palestine issue
complicated the picture. That is
counter to the belief of Prof
Arthur M. Schlesinger, ST., who
has propounded the theory that
periods of liberal government are
followed by periods of reaction last
ing from Is to Is years. Also, Mr..
Bean points out that if the country
votes down Mr.. Truman in Novem-
ber it will be the first time in 80
years that prosperous administra-
tion has been turned out of Office.
He'll Be Ready Soon.
At the moment Mr.. Bean is wait
ing for campaign reactions to be-
come evident. He'll be ready to make
that long march out on a limb in
a month or so. ts=
Mr.. Bean, incidentally, wishes he
could foresee the founding of a
Government agency where all in
formation on political statistics
would be centralized. He has had
to dig hard for his figures and
thinks that If such material were
available it would stimulate the
interest of the electorate in what he
calls ballot behavior"
Mr.. Bean makes his home at 3714
North Randolph street, Arlington,
Va, with his wife Dorothy, who
helped him to "straighten out"
few Of the sentences in his timely
book.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
There Is an Axe
In the Root
Of the World
THE DOUBLE AXE and Other
Poems. BY Robinson. Jeffers.
(Randon House; $2.75J
Reviewed by
EDWIN TRIBBLE.


Mr.. Jeffers Is a first-rate modern
poet-a man of originality and
force. He has appeared lately also
as fine dramatist with an inspired
translation of Euripides' Medea.
The present volume is his first book
of original poetry in some years. 1t
is clearly the work of a man who
knows how to express himself
powerfully and its language is again
blend of that haunting, Sibelius-
like tone which is his alone-an
effect something like an orchestra
of. nothing except violins and
drums.
What is this fine noise saying?
First that the world is sick-there is
an ak in the root of the world, is
his figure OF speech for it. To pre-
sent his thesis he uses the story of
a dead Soldier returning to inveigh
against the world that sent him
into war in foreign lands. He
climaxes his presentation with a
picture of a philosopher watching
the mad atomic world in the last
Wagnerian throes of its own
destruction. He has bitter hatred
for all the leaders of the Allied
world who led their nations into the
last World War. He sees the world
led falsely into betraying its reason
and denying its human instincts.
He advocates complete political
isolationism for the United States.
Beware" he warns, "the dear
pleasure of being savior"
His philosophy of the-rest-of-the-
world-be-damned he sums up in
these words:
81 tell you
that exclusion and privilege
are the last bleeding claUhold OF
the eagle, honor"
The violence with which Mr..
Jeffers assails the "idealism" which
led us into the war against fascism
(and his personal attacks, notably
upon President Roosevelt, are al
most unparalleled in public print)
has led his publishers to disavow his
sentiments in statement published
in the front of the book. But the
very violence of them detracts from
their effectivness. A poet in anger
can be mover Of men and noun
tains but a poet in sustained hatred
simply tells the world more about
himself than about the world.
The cynicism here is so deep that
coupled with Mr.. Jeffers' extraordi-
nary symbolism of unnatural
horror, it repulses rather than at
tracts disciples.