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icize the forces arrayed against It.
His particular bette noir, like that
Of many left-wingers, Is the Cath
olic church.
He says he is convinced that
"the chief reason President Roose-
velt erred in his Spanish policy
was the pressure brought to bear
by the Roman Catholic hierarchy"
This conception should surprise
many readers. .s
MIR. Del vayo adds: I'm the
Vatican's grandiose plan for world
domination, a plan that after
World War II received q new i'm
pulse under Pacelli (the .Pope)
Spain has played the principal
part" *
And he takes the Pope to task
for summoning the faithful to a
postwar battle against < Social
LIST Europe" He must mean a
Communist Europe. He does not
mention what has happened to re-
ligious freedom in countries Mos
cow has taken over. It is only the
power of the Vatican that keeps
Franco In power, he insists. But
his most remarkable statement is
this:
And so it is that the alliance
OF Vatican reaction and American
capitalism stands out as the most
significant political development
OF the postwar period"
No doubt many persons who
read this book will hope that Mr..
Del Vayo's brand of optimism
proves entirely unjustified.
THE LONG WAY HOME
BY Harold G. Geyer. (Rtchard
r. Smith,; $780,
MIR. Geyer, an American artist.
spent 20 years in Troyes, France
drawing. etching and absorbing
the life about him. This book.
profusely Illustrated with Mr.
Geyer's art, is the result. The text
is told alternately in letters and
verse. If the writing is diffuse
and somewhat confused, the illus
tratlons are remarkably fine.
Evening star., 1950-01-22
Intolerance Besets
A Southern CoIIeqe
CAMPUS TOWN
BY Hart Stilwell.
So =.

by 1art otllWell. tHOHOtSuuy,
$3J
Students and faculty at a South
ern college In the early '20s make
up the cast Of this fast-moving
novel. It Is written around the
theme of intolerance, with the
Klan intervening frequently and
academic freedom at issue in q
Legislative inquisition.
The chief figure Is Lefty Mason,
. singularly ignorant and naive
young man who comes to college
hoping to get something out Of
his classes but more particularly
to learn what life is all about. He
Is a capable southpaw pitcher,
which gains him a prominence
his diff1dence and inexperience
otherwise would have denied him.
The story Is concerned with his
love for q promiscuous campus
beauty and his gradual awakening
to the injustices Of the era.
There is the usual liberal pro-
fessor who is suspected of what
then was called bolshevism and
who is jobbed into resigning. The
president. as you'll probably find
you suspected all along, turns out
to be a villain. The melodramatic
finale is a surprise, but that does
not make 1t plausible. The story
is highly seasoned with sex.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1950-01-22
Jim Farrell Tells Us
Fogurty Has q New One

James T. Farrell was in town
last week, doing his annual sight
seeing from congressional galleries.
AS usual, the creator of Studs
Lonigan" preferred to talk about
Jonathan Titelescu Fogarty, 1.-The
engineer for human happiness, .
whose initials are just like Mr..
Farrell's but whose philosophy and
writings are so different
Fogarty, Mr. Farrell is quick to
tell you. has book coming out on
March 81, called The Name Is
Fogarty" an anthology of the
thoughts of this man in a mans
world and gentleman in a ladies'
world" Headed for every desk in
the United States Senate it's pub
lication date is significant, says
Mr.. Farrell. who is the worlds
greatest authority on Fogarty.
Spring means hope, and hope
means Fogarty." Fogarty is going to
run against Senator Taft in Ohio.
Evening star., 1950-01-22

neutral ship. They thought of
everything. They had a timetable,
briefcases. passports and extra
rations provided by the commit
tee. The scene before the takeoff
notable for its suggestion of a
tranquil f1reside tableau, gives
some hint of the diversity and in
genuity of the preparations: In
other rooms along the corridor
other prisoners were making parts
OF a secret wireless set, forging
passports or making civilian cloth
ing from odd bits of uniform. 4"
The final touch was the elabo-
rate diversion planned at the other
end OF the camp the night the
three (Peter and John sportingly
included a friend, who went on
his own outside) went down into
the tunnel for the last time.
The adventures on the outside
were not so amusing, not so slim
ulating. At the camp, they
worked under the eyes of their
guards. But in Stettin danger
was everywhere. After they made
contact with the French under
ground they were spirited aboard
a Danish ship. Just missed the
Nazis in Denmark and finally
made their way to Sweden, where
with typical calm they observed
that prison life had it's points and
that living in the camp had been
living IN fools paradise in a
way"
And this is the sort of thing
that you carry away from The
Wooden Horse" Wonderful as
the escape was. it is the humor of
the men in the camp, their aware
ness OF each others crotchets and
hobbies, their constant wearing of
the old-school tie that you re-
member. 1.-THE Wooden Horse" is
satisfying any way you look at It,
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1950-01-22
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Evening star., 1950-01-22
Reading and Writing
Dowdey's
Book Proposes
Virginia Reforms
By Mary McGrory

From historical novelist to prob
lem novelist was the longest, hard
est step Clifford Dowdey ever took.
Three years and three complete
rewritings went into Weep for
My Brother" story Of a mental
patient, which represents the
Richmond writer's first foray out
of the Civil War period since he
made his debut with "Bugles Blow
No More" almost a decade ago.
Based on "a long and bitter
personal experience" with the
mental illness of some one close"
to him, the book, an implicit
condemnation of Virginia's mental
institutions. was published on Fri
day, the day the General Assembly
convened. And Mr.. Dowdey hopes
that the controversy provoked in
his native city by a magazine
condensation Of the story, as well
as the book itself, may lead to
reforms. Already Dr.. Joseph
Barrett, State commissioner Of
mental hygiene and hospitals, has
avowed the justice of Mr.. Dow
dey's criticism.
Interviewed by telephone in
Richmond, Mr.. Dowdey said that
while his novel relates specifically
to Virginia's mental institutions,
he believes that the same poll
tics-ridden" pattern is repeated
elsewhere in the United States.
Way stations on the itinerary
of the damned" is the term that
describes them best, he feels.
Virginia Greed.
THE problem in Virginia is OBJ
viously lack Of money, but that
is not the main problem" he said.
Everybody knows what a penny
pinching government Virginia has.
And 1t Is like a miser, whose
whole personality is affected by
his greed for gold. Regardless
of their talent and idealism, the
doctors are driven by anxiety to
balance the budget It results in
a rush to get the patients out
OF the institutions, and this is
unrelated to any improvement the
patient may or may not have
made"
His Recommendations.
AS remedies, Mr.. Dowdey recon-
mends the establishment of dis
trict units, where phychopatho-
logical personalities can be ex-
amined and routed to a proper
place of treatment, and also
parole system which would keep a
check on "borderline" cases.
Now that he is back ir the
present as crusader, Mr. Dowdey
has decided to stay.
II used to try to relate problems
Of the past to contemporary ones
in my historical novels, but every
body thought of them as costume
romances anyway. I've decided
that if you really want to make
social comment, you have to come
back into your own time" he says.
Evening star., 1950-01-22
J. Alvarez de! Voyo, Spanish Democrat,
Follows KrenIin Line in Memoirs
THE LAST OPTIMIST
Rv r Alvarez del Vsvo
fViking;; 50

Mr. Del Vayo. who was a lead
ing figure In the Spanish Repub-
lican government and was Foreign
Minister for the Loyalists during
the civil war. writes his memoirs.
He is known to readers Of the Ma
ten for his weekly articles on for
c.gn affairs during his years of
exile in America.
He has had an exciting life, trav-
cling widely for nearly 40 years
and having part as journalist or
diplomat in many epochal events.
He is highly educated man and
he writes we'll. His story Is always
interesting. His conclusions and
arguments follow the Kremlin line
closely. Mr.. Del Vayo describes
himself as a militant Socialist, not
a Communist. and says he has dis
agreed at times with Moscow, par
ticularly over rearming Germany.
But he never loses q chance to de-
fend the Soviet regime and to crit
Evening star., 1950-01-22
For Bird Watchers

Washington being such a CEN
ter for bird migrations of all
kinds, local watchers will be in
terested to hear that April will
bring "The Indoor Bird Watch
ers' Manual" by Helen Ferril,
publisher Of the Rocky Mountain
Herald It will note such ubiqui-
tous types as the blue-nosed kill
Joy, the extra-marital lark and
the quick gander. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1950-01-22

AA0EPSAAS PO0db4y WALL US sur
prised at the light. amusing touch
with which this earlier novel was
written. Coming Up for Air" is
not, like Animal Farm" which
preceded Nineteen Eighty -Four, !"
a satire, but is a straight, breezy,
first-person account of a middle
class Englishman's impressions of
his life.
George Bowling describes him
self-and no doubt he's right
as typical Of his niche in society
at the time. circa 1888. He lived
in a suburb of London, in a du-
plex house, with his wife and
two children, more or less per-
manently in hook to the develop
ment company that made his
home possible. He worked for
an insurance company, had a car
that sometimes ran fairly well,
made just enough to get by if
they were all careful. He was As
and could remember the early
part of the century, when things
were quite different. He had
come up in the world to an ex-
tent. He was the son of small
tradesman, who had a feed store
In a little town a long way from
London. George had fought in
the first war and, despite a
sketchy education. won a COM
mission because of a good COM
bat record. He saw the second
war coming, as, Of course. q lot
Of other people did.
The story centers around
Georges memories OF his child
hood. which are romantic and
realistic at the same time, and
his sudden decision to go back
to his home town for the first
time in 21 years. To SAVIOR the
experience fully, he must go
alone, and this means rnaneuver-
ing to get away q few days from
his suspicious, acidulous wife. He
can't tell her the truth-she' d
never understand or consent. He
concocts an excuse-at least he
thinks so-and goes.
There Is rich humor in Georges
slangy recollections and refiec-
tions. But there is more than
amusement in his story. There
Is a serious undertone which shows
that Mr.. Orwell saw quite clearly
Evening star., 1950-01-22

EDMUND PENDLEION GAINES,
Frontier General
BY James w. Silver. Louisiana
State University Press; $4.50)
Reviewed by
HARNETT T. KANE.
tAuthor Of Queen New orleans" and New
Orleans Woman: Biographical Novel OF
Myra CLARK Gaines.")
A man who touched the course
Of American history at least
lf-dozen points, a vivid. some
times fantastic, individual, Ed
mund Pendleton Gaines, has been
lost to the sight of several genera
tions Of the country's readers. II
only because he has brought him
back to light, DR.. Silver of Missis-
sippi would deserve applause. He
has done more than that; he has
achieved a sound, rich study, al
most certainly the definitive work
about this curiously neglected
American of another day.
Gen. Gaines was, to put it light
ly, character" He advanced
close to the place of commander
of the American Army; he had a
vigorous role in Indian warfare of
a century and a quarter ago; he
surveyed vast Western areas and
opened them to American develop
ment. At the same time he was a
peppery individual who old not
hesitate in conducting a, war TO the
hilt with his military and civilian
superiorS; in his feuds he used
everything except ink bottles,s he
defied such things as Governors
and Presidents.
And he took a bizarre role in
another field when he married
Myra Clark Gaines, the Nations
perpetual litigant" of the last
century, and gave fortune in an
effort to help her win the right to
her name.
Yet Edmund Gaines, as Mr..
Silver argues persuasively, was
far more important American
than many realized, then or later.
Some OF his personal oddities OBJ
scured his contributions: his
f1amboyant activities OF his de-
clining years tended to make his
contemporaries forget his pre-
vious accomplishments. He was,
as the author points out, a thor
ough-going expansionist in a
crucial moment Of the American
story. He was a man of action,
fast and bloody, if he thought
necessary; as such he had a fair
part in developing the Nation of
the 1820s and '30s.
The book iS>uot an attempt to
whitewash the man; Mr.. Silver is
Judicious and sometimes a lit
tie amused at his struttine cock.
Now and then his academic para
phernalia gets in the way CT his
story: some of the, footnotes
might have been eliminated, to
keep his narrative going. And
this reader, for one, would have
liked bit more detail in the mat
ter Of the generals years with the
zestful Myra. who made his name
famous in another way than he
had planned. But all in all it
is an excellent and judicious job.
Evening star., 1950-01-22
Books In Review
An Escape Story
That Makes You
Forget Peril
THE WOODEN HORSE

THE WOODEN HORSE
BY Eric williams. (Harper &
Bros; $275.)
This must be one Of the blithest
escape stories on record. It is
surely the most understated. Only
an Englishman could make a get
away from a German prison camp
in 1943 sound like a schoolboy
escapade. And as at a good Brit
ish picture. you constantly forget
the peril, because minor charac-
tiers are always coming out with
irrelevant comments when the
tension is tightest.
The whole scheme of the escape
was completely. coolly British.
The idea of the wooden horse, of
course. came from the classics.
1t was made plausible by the
typical English craze for exer-
cise."s And it was organized with
the loving attention for detail that
has made the race the greatest
administrators in the world. But
the author, Eric Williams, has
carried the national reserve a bit
too far. Never once does he
identify himself as Peter Howard
one of the escapers, and his pub
fishers, also playing the game, do
not make the fact clear on the
jacket.
1t will probably come as no
surprise that the British prisoners
at Stalag-Luft III had an escape
committee. They had glee-singers,
amateur theatricals and an Or
chestra, so the committee was
perhaps inevitable. Once this
board approved the idea, Peter
and John and their friends con-
structed vaulting horse out of
old Red Cross boxes. The Ger
man guards thought nothing of it
when the mad dogs of Englishmen
lugged the horse out of their hut
every afternoon and hurled them
selves over it for hours. What
they did not know was that a
man rode inside, and that he bur-
rowed his way into the earth,
scooping the sand into bags made
out. of old trouser legs, snoring
the sides Of the tunnel, until some
lib feet had been dug.
Thought Of Everything.
Peter, and John decided to es-
cape in style. to pose as foreign
workers, riding in trains and
staying in good hotels in seaport
cities until they could board a
Evening star., 1950-01-22
Foiqer Will Stoy

From Louis B. Wright, cheerful
director of the Folger Library,
comes a sprightly news letter in
which the guardian of the worlds
greatest collection of Shakespeare
ana. sets down his creed for the
next half century. Bombs or no.
says DR.. w., well just stay here
and keep our air-conditioning 60
ing as long as it will run and read
solid renaissance sermons on in-
nate depravity-a theme which
somehow cheers us"
Evening star., 1950-01-22
Novelist Comes
TO Grips With
Mighty Theme
Reviewed by
HARNETT T. KANE.

THE VINTAGE
BY Anthony West. (Houghton,
Mi67tn Co.. $3)
In his first novel, Anthony
West, son Of Rebecca West and
H. G. Wells, has come boldly to
grips with the mighty theme of
guilt and exp1ation. He has
worked it into q fantastic tale of
an after-world which serves him
as a vantage-point for commen-
tary on present-day civilization,
which he appears not to admire.
II his telling is not always equal
to his high purpose, and the rel
evancy Of his hero's adventures
In the here and hereafter is often
quite murky, he has at least re-
vealed himself as a forceful and
original writer who needs to de-
velop only clarity to become pow
erful.
"The Vintage" opens witt, the
suicide of a British Army officer
who goes to a modern purgatory
with Nazi war criminal he has
helped to hang for companion
and an amiable devil named Ran
some as an escort. AS he is
guided through the trivial and
vulgar pleasure Of an eternity
where all women are compliant.
all pictures perfect and happiness
the only concern, he is reminded
of his past. his selfish, blighting
love Of a handful of women. On
earth. any spiritual STRINGS in
Wallis had been stif1ed in sensu-
ality. But in this srnilingly cor
rupt purgatory. his conscience
belatedly awakens, and he real
izes that he has been the archi-
tect and builder of his own hell.
M. McG.
Evening star., 1950-01-22

OF the damned"
bill. she wouio dash to the tele-
phone and alert interested groups,
who would in turn dispatch one of
their ablest takers to meet the
recalcitrant legislator as he came
off the floor.
Miss Moore spent far less time
talking to Congressman than to
their constituents, she said.
IF you go around to his Office,
he's got pile of mail to answer,
a May queen. from home to greet,
his telephone is ringing, and he
hates you," said Miss Moore in
her gentle tones.
What if you meet him at a
cocktail party, should you mention
the bill nearest your heart?
. "Oh, yes. by all means. give him
the works"
Evening star., 1950-01-22
Some Earlier Prophesying
By George Orwell of 1884
COMING UP FOR AIR
BY George Orwell (Harcourt, Brace; s3)

Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES
This novel by the Nineteen the fiction
OF last written World War
broke out and published in England published
this country for the first time Its unhappy
with the death OF It's brilliant author
London to a long illness ' ~
Those who met Mr. Orwell through that
powerful and terrifying image Of totataran that
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Long Forgotten
General Comes
To the Front

EDMUND PENDLETON GAINES,
Frontier General
by James w. Silver. Louisiana
State University Press; $780,
Evening star., 1950-01-22
Thought Of Everything,

Peter, and John decided to es-
cape i1 style, to pose as foreign
workers, riding in trains and
staying in good hotels in seaport
cities until they could board a
Evening star., 1950-01-21

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