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Evening star., 1950-04-23

Mr.. Churchill. Often enough the
generals, kings or prime ministers
who steered their countries
through great moments of history
have been unable afterward to tell
their stories or else have told them
so ponderously and duly that only
persistent students would wade
through them. That the wartime
Prime Minister Of Great Britain
should be able to describe his
leading part in the most fateful
events of modern times in prose OF
classic precision and beauty is a
boon alike to history and litera-
ture. Good writing is far more
than style, and Mr.. Churchill full
fills admirably its higher purpose
of assembling what is relevant and
rejecting unessential detail.
Praise for Harry Hopkins.
Scores of high points in Mr..
Churchill's summary of the year
press for mention. Only few can
be touched on in a brief review.
His admiration for and accord
with President Roosevelt have
often been told. Mr.. Churchill
pays high tribute to the Presi-
dents chief aide. Harry Hopkins,
calling him "a true leader of men,"
a Judgment with which not all
Americans will agree.
Mr.. Churchill says of his al
legged opposition to the second
'front.':
$50 many tales have been pub
lished Of my rooted aversion from
large-sca1e operations on the
Continent that it Is important
that the truth should be empha-
sized. I always considered that a
decisive assault upon the German
occupied countries on the largest
possible scale was the only way in
which the war could be won, and
that the summer of 1943 should
be chosen as the target date"
The timetable. he explains, was
upset by the stiff German resis-
tance in North Africa. The con-
quest of these lands was not COM
pleted until May. 1943. THE
supreme plan of crossing the
Channel to liberate France, for
which I had earnestly hoped and
worked. could not therefore be
undertaken that summer, and was
perforce postponed for one whole
year, till the summer of 1914"
Russia Didn't Understand.
The Russians, Mr.. Churchill
says, clamoring for the second
front" from the moment they
we're attacked and months before
America was brought into the war
by the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor. never understood in the
smallest degree the nature of the
amphibious operation necessary
to disembark and maintain
great army upon a well-defended
hostile coast" He adds: "Yet
Niagaras of folly and misstate-
ment still pour out on this ques-
ton of a second front"
1SolationistS and some interven-
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tionists assailed Mr.. Roosevelt for
giving the attack in Europe rather
than the Pacific war priority and
blamed Mr.. Churchill's pressure.
There was. Mr.. Churchill indi-
Gates, no disagreement on this
point, and he reported to his
chiefs of staff a month after
Pearl Harbor: "It is generally
agreed that the defeat of Ger
many, entailing a collapse. will
leave Japan exnosed to over
whelming force, whereas the de-
feat of Japan would not by any
means bring the World War to an
end"
The Atlantic Charter.
Mr.. Churchill takes pride in the
Atlantic Charter which he and
Mr.. Roosevelt signed at sea. He
states: considering all the tales
of my reactionary Old World out
look. and the pain this is said to
have caused the President. I am
glad it should be on record that
the substance and spirit of what
came to be called the Atlantic
Charter was in its first draft a
British production cast in my own
words"
The author reviews the flight
of Rudolph Hess, the mo. 3 Nazi"
to Scotland in 1941. Mr.. Churchill
comments that he is glad not to
be responsible for the way in
which Hess has been and is being
treated" Hess was sentenced to
life imprisonment at the war
criminals trials in Germany. Mr..
Churchill adds: Whatever may
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lost her mlnd. She fingered IN the
half-world of madness until 1927.
Those two, the Austrian Arch
duke and the Belgian Princess,
contributed to history no more
than a shadowy episode. already
faded and forgotten. And yet as
persons they have inspired an in
terest that fingers after nearly
a century. The romantic tragedy
of their adventure in the New
World has had an appeal to writ
ers which has brought a sympa-
thetic public many factual VOL
ume and many a book in which
truth and fable were mingled.
A Well-DOcumented Field.
Mr.. German, an author of
scholarly bent, who wrote biogra-
phies before he turned to histori-
cal fiction, was pushing into
well-documented field when he
chose to write another novel about
Macmillan and Carlota. And vet,
so sure is his historical grasp, so
unfaltering his literary skill, that
the familiar story seems fresh.
The royal couple whom fate
dealt with so harshly kindle SYM
pathy because they were kindly
and set out with the best inten-
tions. Macmillan felt, naively, but
sincerely that he could unite and
help the Mexican people. His lib
eralism estranged both the church
and the conservatives on whom he
must depend. The Emperor's
thinking was clouded by vague
conceptions of royal DESTINY,
and he never could look at
the situation realistically. He
could hardly believe that Napoleon
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AGIittering Blond
Finds Out She Hos
Away With Men
A GOLDEN GIRL

A GOLDEN GIRL
BY Harry Sylvester. fHarcourt,
Brace & Co.. So
Mr.. Sylvester's new novel is
somber. sardonic. symbolic, de-
spite the glittering blondness of
his heroine. A battling and dis
turbing creature. she comes to
Lima. Peru, wearing a dead cap
tain's bars on her shoulder, and.
apparently unwittingly. maneu-
vers to bring four widely differ
ent men to a stark realization of
themselves. Murdock. the goddess
mining engineer finds out he has
a conscience; so does the phi
laundering poet-diplomat. Shaw.
Ortiz, the bullfighter, who expects
the homage Of women. dies almost
literally Of Illustration; and poor
Conway. the bitter, twisted Cath
olic obsessed with the idea of
confluence Is driven to q futile,
mortal heroiSm.
The disciplined. deliberately
paced drama moves swiftly. It's
tension both relieved and height
ened by several magnificent bull
fight scenes superb in their grace
and color. Mr.. Sylvester is a
professional writer. even If his
prose is sometimes cryptic, and
his meaning not entirely clear.
Terry Morley is not an en-
tire success as character. but
she is q skillful embodiment of
the power of sex which can in
woke such truths and such vio-
lence. The portrait of Conway,
seemingly stalled in adolescence
because Of his virginity. should
provoke controversy.
MARY McGRoRY.
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0tSNufu 4fCoo, So.oUD
old worked tirelessly in a rigidly
organized agricultural community.
On both sides of the partition.
she attended the rites of three
faiths. none of which were par
ticularly congenial to her South
ern Baptist soul. Throughout she
emphasizes the religious claims
which cluster about every holy
place in that contentious land.
Mrs. Ethridge is as always a
chatty reporter. needlessly lavish
with her "as you knows" and
given to repeating her own witt
cisns at some length. Readers
who have been irritated before
will be displeased to hear that she
still refers to her husband as "the
roommate"
MARY McGRoRY.
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ernmental reorganization. now
underway largely by virtue of the
Hoover Commission work. was a
Hoover goal more than 90 years
ago.
Mr.. Hinshaw appraises Mr..
Hoover as "a man Of many para
doxes." This book does not re-
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Diunu Guines'
Il. asker Martin
Is Powerful Novel
TASKER MARTIN
BY Diana Gaines.
House. $3.)

BY Diana Gaines. (Random
House; $3.)
Tasker Martin loved the fight
and despised the fruits of victory.
His story from hobo at IL to rail-
road tycoon at Al is told mostly
In f1ashbacks through the eyes of
those who loved or hated him
most-his wife. the woman he was
to marry. his onetime mistress.
his doctor, lawyer, partner, secre-
tary and press agent. All of them
felt his domination, his ruthless
determination to possess. Few of
them realized the ashes he tasted
In possession.
Miss Gaines has written real
istically rather than romantically
OF her tycoon. From that, as well
as from her meticulous attention
to the pertinent detail of the lives
aoutting on her hero's, stems the
power OF this novel.
MIRIAM OT-rENprpo
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A Story Of Courage
By the Authors
Of Mrs. Nike
THIS AND NO MORE
BY Benedict and Nancy Freed.
man. (Hdrper & Bros; $500
Reviewed by
TTANEE P0GTpC

man. (Harper & Bros; $780,
Reviewed by
JEANNE ROGERS.
"This and No More" is a 15-year
segment out of a mans life.
Beginning when Lucien Sadler
is IL, the novel is scale, balanc-
ing his achievements-his failures
in the acceptance of life.
Benedict and Nancy Freedman
have failed to produce as strong
a book as their last best seller,
Mrs. Nike" because the plot
lacks freshness. Their character
ization is too pat.
The first two chapters DOM
mate and overshadow the rest.
Here, Lucien, a desperately i'll
little boy. is described simply by
his thoughts. This over-the-
shoulder writing technique is
handled with strength by authors
who obviously know the hops, skips
and jumps of a child's mind.
Although Lucien has been told
he is going to die, he spends a
half hour thinking about its posi-
bilities, opens a book, mounts q
buffalo and rides away into the
world of imagination.
It's too bad the Freedmans
didn't allow Lucien's eternal
optimism to win over fear
throughout the novel. AS he ages,
he loses his reader appeal. Lucien
becomes confused-as does the
book-when the authors introduce
the illness of his youth into his
subconscious.
Firmly mired in the mud of
complacency." the main char
acter moves neither forward nor
backward for pages. The story is
carried, at this point, by other
characters who brush briefly
against his life.
The novel-including an un-
completed love element and an
unsolved murder-could have been
frightened and improved by a job
of rewrite. Nevertheless, it un-
doubtedly will sell well through
the current popularity of the man
and-wife writing team.
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be the moral guilt Of German
who stood near to Hitler, Hess
had. in my view, atoned for this
by his completely devoted and
frantic deed of lunatic benevo-
lence. He came to us of his own
free will, and, though without au-
thority. had something Of the
quality of an envoy. He was a
medical and not a criminal case
and should be so regarded"
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Sawdust in His Shoes, by Eloise

Sawdust in His Shoes, by Eloise
Jarvis McGraw Coward Cam;
$2.50)-Joe Lang Is suddenly
wrenched from the circus upbring-
ing he has always known to live
an entirely different life. The
young boys attempts to find hap
piness make interesting reading
for boys and girls alike. A Junior
Literary Guild selection. .r
Evening star., 1950-04-23

"The Fighting Defense 942 Draa0ing By It. Fred
Freeman S. ~ r. for "Uned States Submarine Operations
World War H."
u. S. SUBMARINE OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
Theodore published States Institute
Annapolis, Nd; $10J
Reviewed by REX COLLIER.
The "sent operating during
the and too little pubcised SINCE tells its thrilling freely
detail this important official history
its oecuty the books frank discussion the nercusabe torpedo
faults that cost subariners sre kills. before corrected
500 exciting narraUe its 200
charts constitute invaluable textbook
rine warfare.
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Herbert German Awokens New Interest
In Mexico's Mdxin1iIion and CorIotu
THE BREAST OF THE DOVE

BY Herbert German. (Rinehdrt; $780,
Maxmlian Empress Carlota placed
throne conjured by intrigue
rule alien distrusng
pened and Maxmn forsaken by the French who held him
in precarious ovrhrown executed the
Carota
Evening star., 1950-04-23

Sean oFaoan man not easily pleased moreover much
questioning the things his packing
and let his critical faculties melt the Italy
No will probably mind much that this raprou
almost deirious of Italian
novelists usual sardonic The beauties
Evening star., 1950-04-23

The Book Of Fascinating Facts
(Hart: $1.25 For readers 8 to IA.
here is a book Of lore on many
subjects and material for fun in
doors. Illustrated.
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Herbert Hoover Looms Large
In a Changed American Scene
AMERICAN QUAKER


BY David HinShaw FGrrdr StrduS & Co.. So
Reviewed by ROBERT K. WALSH.
According rule that times change with
them exceptional
make complete circle.
Many have remarked years"
in this biography, that has melowed.
changed Instead has had the
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Books In Review
Churchill Reviews the CotocIysmic
1941 in Sd Volume of His Memoirs
THE GRAND ALLIANCE
By Winston s. Churchill.
'Houghton, Mi6fin; s6J


year destiny that attack
the Atlantic Charter British disasters in Africa and
baleshp Bismarck
and closed analyzed Britains brilliant
war leader third volume of his memoirs
Few leaders history ariculate
Evening star., 1950-04-23

"The Republican Party might
haze saved it's soul by NOM
mating him in 1886"
solve all the paradoxes or remove
all the criticism. But it helps to
bring Herbert Hoover into a
clearer light during his own life
time and to place him more
strongly than ever in the respect
of his countrymen.
Evening star., 1950-04-23
An Irish NoveIist's Almost DeIirious
Report of q Summer He Spent in Italy

A SUMMER IN ITALY
BY Sean OFaolain. (The Deuin-Adair Co.; $780,
Reviewed by MARY McGRORY.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
SOPHOMORE GLASS GIVES CHRISTMAS
 PROGRAM FRIDAY

An innovation in the Juneau Pub- lie High School pre-Christmas &C., tivities will be the Christmas pro- gram by the Sophomore English class for the high school students tomorrow afternoon in the 'gymna- sium.
 Under the direction of Miss Rhoda Mae ZWickey, class instructor mem bers of the English class will present a program of choral reading, The Nativity, according to the Gospel of St. Luke, and other Christmas themes from various literary works.
 The members of Mrs. Myrtle Phil lips class in Spanish will sing three songs in Spanish and the program will close with the singing of Christ mas carols by the entire student body.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
ARM0RY BUILDING PROGRAM STOPPED
 BY PRESENT CRISIS

There will be no armories for Alaska during the present crisis &C., cording to Col. Joseph Alexander, Acting Adjutant General Alaska National Guard He has returned from Washington, DC. where he attended a conference of the Ma tional Guard Bureau.
 There will be no federal funds available for a National Guard armory any place through the funding program for the fiscal year of 1851. National Guard armories are another casualty of the present crisis" said Col Alexander.
 Enroute to Washington. Col. Alex-S ander attended civil defense meeting of state and city directors in Chicago. Discussed at the meet. ing were a number of problems from the territorial and federal levels. ~s There will be temporary active duty for certain Alaska National Guard officers" said Col. Alexan- der.
 Capt. William A. Angel of the First Scout Battalion will be the first officer on temporary federal duty. Hes will make two weeks tour of his units. Three other Scout Battalion officers have been recommended for temporary fed eral duty.
 A program for attendance by Alaska Guard officers at army schools in the States presented by Col. Alexander at the Washington conference was approved. Six of ficers are to attend courses during the next six months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
Thursday, December 21, 1850
READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS?

Juneau is getting dressed up for Christmas and the decorated windows of the stores in town, the lighted trees in the residential Christmas dec orations on home sand in yards giving the town holiday air.
 Early snow this year prepared us weeks ago for a white Christmas, though the occasional rains and thaws since the snows began have mudoled up the whiteness around town
 With only two more shopping days before Christi mas most of us are remembering now our resolution of a year ago. and making them over agaln Next year our cards will be in the mail by December l. Next year there will be no last minute rush.
 Next year. we will arrange ahead of time TOT Christmas decorations for the entrance to The Empire
 When we do so little ourselves about decorations, it does not become to urge others to decorate for Christmas-but do
 The Christmas windows that have been appearing around town indicate much thought, originality and work on the part of the designers
 The decorations add to the Christmas spirit we
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
(OhST GUARD FILM
 IS AVAILABLE TOP 2
 GROUP sH0WlMGS

A 28-minute new color 16 nm. film, Career for Tomorrow" on the US. Coast Guard Academy, is now available to groups for loan, free of charge, from the Comman- der. 17th Coast Guard District here, it was announced today. e'
 The film shows interesting high- lights in the cadets training at the Academy to become Coast Guard officers. Most of the pictures were shot at the Academy in New Lon- don, Conn, but about third of the footage was taken on a summer training cruise to London and Casa blanca.
 The program involves four year tuition-free education leading to a bachelor of science degree in engi- neering and a commission as ensign in the Coast Guard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
A LOST ART?
Christmas

An ancient art fast being lost to modern man is that of firebuilding. Within the memories of most middle-aged Americans ability to lay and kndle fires of various types was household essential That day has passed perhaps forever.
 At the turn of the century most homes in the United States were heated either by stoves furn- aces Crates and fireplaceS still played important winter role. Kitchen cooking was done, in large measure on coal wood ranges. Stores offices and even industrial plants depended in large measure on small individual heating plants.
 Youngsters gorwing up in those days knew the mysteries of kindling. They knew exactly how to crnkle the paper how to splinter the fiat" wood which. in many sections was the initial lighting material They knew how to place logs on a fire place; how to pile chunks" in heating stove. They seldom smothered the first faint bazes in the kitchen range with an overdose of coal. They had flames cracking and the kettles singing in jitfy.
 How diffeernt it is now! If most city schoolboys came face to face with the necessity of starting the morning fires in heating stoves or kitchen ranges they'd be both hungry and cold before the task could he accomplished Usually this lack of knowledge is not important But there have been times when if has brought suffering Thousands of of frost bite among troops in the Arctic in World War II could have been prevented had the men known the simple art of fire building.
 The cheer and comfort o1 an open fire has been recognized by the human race since time lmmemorlal The ability create fire started man on the road to civilization It seems strange, then, that this basic skill now should be lost to so many city dwelers. In prosperous suburbs is retained sometimes only by Boy Scouts householders who own gasless fire places and outdoorsmen who go camping. Modern gadges even have invaded the latter field. We know several grzzled woodsmen who wouldn't venture into the wilderness without portable gasoline stove aid a supply of fuell
 What. we wonder is this old world coming to?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
Capital News Capsules

Another Music Critic-President Truman has a different opinion of at least one music critic-Mrs. Helen Knox Spain of the Atlanta Journal, who wrote such a favor able review of Margaret's concert in Atlanta last season that the President bubbled over with joy and telegraphed the Atlanta Jour- nal for extra copies of Margaret's picture. Contrary to rumor, the President did not use profane language in his note to critic Paul Hume of the Washington PosD.
 Senator rom TenneSee-Senator McKellar of Tennessee, grandpa of the Senate, is planning to run again in 52. He told Boss Crump of Memphis about his plans but Crump warned that McKellar was too old. This made the Senator so sore that he stomped out ot Crump's office and caught the first plane back to Washington.
 U. s. trained Germans-Without waiting for European diplomats to come to terms, the U. s. Army has quietly trained 10000 west Ger mans right under the noses of the Russians to serve as the nucleus for a future west German army Two thousand have been armed ano equipped into battalions in west Berlin, with the rest stationed in four training centers in tnt western zone under the label ot labor battalions." Actually, they are carefully selected anti-Nazi' who will be the officers of thu new German army.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
ther: High, A; low, 40; rain.
DailY lessons in English %y. v l. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN Do not T pair Of twins" PAIR OF is pathological, as TWINS implies pair.
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED Parque Pronounce par-ka first as in A a S CAKE, accent second syllable
 OFTEN NISSPEILED: msculne Blonde feminine
 SYNONYMS noun) dust misIus suspicion disbelief skeptcsm.
 WORD three times and is yours Let us Todys word that affect the interests of others without the intervention O
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA $y LEE

e. explain the manner of eating soup?
 Dip the and direct it edgeo he plate Do not fill not the point of the into the mouth very the mouth without slightest bit of
 O. person just been introduced and person says glad what should response be?
 A you" sufficient one pleased about meeting other Thank you hope that you soon"
 O. place i engage the clergyman for a church wedding?
 brides privilege. Usually the wedding the church she and her family attend
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
Washington Pipeline

Senator Peppers subcommittee, Investigating wire-tapping, will call some new witnesses before closing the books on Senator Brewstef'S wire-tapping activities. The new post of defense mobilization diree- tor was offered first to Paul Hoff- man, former ECA Administrator, before it went to Charles E. Will son. Hoffman, however, turned it down. Purcell Smith, the S65,000 a-year private power lobbyist, was caught sending notes to Congress- man Jensen of Iowa inside the House Appropriations Committee while the committee was debating
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
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Chinese guerrillas against the Con- munists, the President pointed out that it miehba ~tuaf Tetahatory Communist move against the Phil ippines; also that the guerrillas are too inaccessible" and scattered to be supplied from the air or welded together into an effective fighting force.
 Note-The Congressmen who con- ferred with the President included Francis Walter of Pennsylvania, Brooks Hays of Arkansas, House whip Percy Priest of Tennessee, all Democrats; with Kenneth Heating of New York and Walter Judd of Minnesota, Republicans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21
XMAS VACATION PARTIES FRIDAY,
 JUNEAU SCH00LS S

Juneau Public and Parochial schools will close tomorrow after noon at ? o'clock for the Christmas holiday vacation. Glasses will be resumed at the regular hours the morning of January 3
 Class room Christmas parties will be held in both schools in the grades tomorrow before the closing hour. Students have been making preparations during the past week for the big party of the year and by their handiwork have trans formed their class rooms into gay settings for the holiday festivities.
 Each room in both the schools will have it's Christmas tree. Gifts will be exchanged and holiday re- treatments will be served.
 Sewing machines Tor rent at the White Sewing Machine Center. 642- tf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-21

public power. The lobbyist hid in Jensen's office and sent the notes by messenger. The potent Asso- ciated Farmers and National Can nery Hobbies are at it again. This time they're working on the House Agriculture Committee to repeal the Child Labor Law ban against farm children working during school hours. .."Torrid" is the latest Pentagonese for critical materials with high priorities.