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Prisons Under Two
.Dictdtors Described

UNDER TWO DICTATORS
BY Margarete Buber. (Dodd
Mead; 81
Miss Buber Cor Mrs. Neumann)
is a German who was imprisoned
by both the Russians and the
Germans and so is in a position te
describe methods of two dictator.
ships alike in their scorn of hu.
man dignity and their degrade
ton of the individual.
She and her husband were Ger
man Communists. They went te
Russia in 1887 and for two years
worked as translators. Her hus-
band, Heinz Neumann, then was
arrested and charged with some
vague political deviation. She
never saw him again. A year later
she was arrested and sent to
a concentration camp in Siberia
After two years. at the time OF
the et-German nom aggres-
sion pact. she was released and
turned over to the Nazis, who
placed her in the notorious Ra-
vensbrueck prison camp. There
she was held until the Americans
liberated her five years later.
Miss Buber writes simply anc
without any apparent attempt tt
pile up horror. Her account oi
hardship, hunger and terror is al
the more effective.
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treat. It is through what they do
and especially what they say that
the thesis of defeated people is
developed-a compound of hatred,
bitterness. futility, apathy. cour-
age, cowardice, despair and, above
all, bewilderment. The author
always stays in the background.
He seems to look at the empty.
meaningless show with an ironical
detachment.
There are soldiers, mostly pri-
Yates and non-coms, always re-
treating. never quite understand
ing why. They talk and argue
endlessly. Their officers walk
away, leaving them to 60 where
they will or can. Their desultory
words often are blackened with
the foul phrases which men away
from women and from the inhib-
iting influence of ordinary society
come to use without thinking.
There is the old World War I
sergeant who wonders what's the
matter with this new generation
of soldiers. who seemed hardly
to fight. And there are those who
retort by asking him why, after
winning the other war, he and his
comrades lost the peace, let the
Germans do as they please. There
are women without understanding
who call the ragged fugitives cow
ards. There is Matthew who, with
his dazed pal, deliberately joined
a detachment of last-ditch fight
ers, chausseurs, who fought on,
knowing their gesture was mean
ingless and they would all be
killed, as they were. Matthew
couldn't face a return without
honor or promise.
1t is memorable picture.
The translation by Gerard Hop
kins is excellent.
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How We Smashed
Japan S Hold on
Pacific Islands

BREAKING THE BISMARCK'S
BARRIER
by Samuel Eliot Morrison. at
lantic, Little-Bro1Dn; $6J
Reviewed by Rex Collier
With the conquest of Quad
alcanal, American and Allied
forces in the Southwest Pacific
found themselves facing formida-
BILE ring of japanese outposts in
the Bismarck Sea area.
The Japs had forged chain OF
land, sea and air bases in New
Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland
and adjacent islands that barred
our way to the Philippines and tc
Tokyo. This "Bismarck's Barrier
had to be broken at all costs be-
fore we could begin our island
hopping campaign northWard.
How the Allied forces planned
and carried out the campaign
which preached the barrier ano
paved the way for Gen. MacAr-
thurs triumphant return tc
Manila and for ultimate victory
in the Pacific is told with q
wealth of detail in this sixth vol
ume of Capt. Morison's authorita-
tive History of United States
Naval Operations in World Wal
H." AS in the case of preceding
volumes of this absorbing wal
account, much of the informa-
ton supplied is first-hand-fron
the authors personal observations
of naval actions in the heart
breaking early days of the Sol
onions -Bismarcks theater. Thost
were the days when there was {
shortage of ships, OF planes, o.
radar, of supplies and of men
There was no shortage of bole
planning and high courage, how
ever-and it took both to drive
the Japs out of the jungles anc
mountains of the wild islands
where they were in ,chol.
Unification of the armed serv-
ices had not been legislated al
that time, but the necessities o1
war brought land-sea-air team
work of q most effective sort
Army Navy and Air Force pooled
their brains and military resources
Evening star., 1951-01-21
New Books

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Todoy's Greats as
Writers CoNeqe
HARVARD ADVOCATE


ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Donald Hall. (Twayne
Publishers; So
The quality of the selections
in this anthology of the Harvard
Advocate, which has been called
"a nursemaid of genius" could
probably be matched in any SIM
liar anthology from any first-class
university. What makes this one
notable Is the eminence of the
nameS Ct the contributors: Two
Roosevelts, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cum
mings. Van Wyck Brooks and Ed
win Arlington Robinson. to men
ton a few. OF them all. it seems
fair to say, only T. S. Eliot shows
intimations of literary immortal
| ity.
A poetic radical like E. E. Cum
mings, for instance, wrote in the
most conventional vein in his col
lege days. Like many undergradu-
ate writer's, these are enormously
solemn when serious and apt to
be heavy handed when comic. The
most intrinsically valuable piece
perhaps is Arthur Schlesinger. jr.'s,
calm, if rather lofty, Harvard To-
day." an estimate of the then new
tutorial system.
AS a curiosity item, the anthol-
| ogy has great appeal
MARY McGRORY
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RommeI Praised by
British Officer Who
|Fouqht Desert Fox

ROMMEL: THE DESERT FOX
BY Desmond Young. Harper;
$780,
Reviewed by Belmont Fories
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
was a superb leader of men who
became a legend in the camp Of
the enemy. One of those enemies.
Brigadier Desmond Young, has
searched out the facts about the
German genius at desert warfare
who made such an impression on
the British in Africa that their
commander found it necessary to
warn: 1T would be highly unde-
sirable that our men should credit
him with supernatural powers.
Brlgadier Young traces the
military career of the son of a
Wurttemberg schoolmaster who.
without the advantages of the
Prussian military caste, won his
marshal's baton. Never NaZi, he
came to Hitler's attention by
chance. In the end, convinced
that Hitler was leading Germany
to destruction, he allowed himself
to become involved in an abortive
plot against the Nazi regime. He
died of poison at Hitler's order.
The book set off a heated con-
troversy in England, but 1t sold
10000 copies.
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Authors Here for Research
At Library Of Congress

Recent visitors include James
T. Farrell, down from New York
to do research at the Library of
Congress on "Yet Other Waters, u
the third novel of a trilogy that
began with Bernard Clare" and
Dorothy Gordon. author of Youth
and Democracy"
Miss Gordon, moderator of the
New York Times Youth Forums,
came to preside over a United
Nations Youth Forum. The for
mer Song and Story Lady" of
radio wrote her latest book. she
says, in order to inspire American
young people with the same
fervor" she saw in the indoctri-
mated teen-agers of NaZi Germany
and Communist Russia. She OBJ
served them. appalled,, when max
ing a survey of radio for children
during the '30s.
This generation. she believes,
has real aWareness and apprecia-
ton of democracy, and is willing
not only to work for it but to fight
| for II
Evening star., 1951-01-21
ISepoy Mutiny of 1857 Depicted
I'm Stirrinq Historical Novel
OF BENGAL

BY John Masters. (The Viking l
The fifth generation of his
family to serve in India, John
Masters writes of the great Ben
gal mutiny of 1857 with a pukka-
sahib's indignation. He regards
that bloody uprising, when the
native soldiers turned on their
British commanders, as a viola
ton of "the true bond woven OF
faith and tradition, between Brit
ish officer and Indian sepoy."
He conveys a good bit of that
feeling in his. first book. which
in many ways follows the for
mula of the historical novel in the
way of lavish sex and mob scenes,
melodramatic condolences and
patches of purple writing. There
is enough gore and intrigue here to
satisfy the most demanding ad-
dict. But he writes good dialogue.
characterizes most of his English
characters, at least. with more
care than is usual in this form
and draws, doubtless from his own
experience, a jaundiced and
amusing picture of the petty, mar
row, stultifying world of the Eng
|lish garrison society which lived
like kings in its exile.
Their vulnerability to the orgy
of murder and rape that overcame
them and their fellows was COM
pounded of overconfidence-or you
could call it trust-in the loyalty
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of the sepoys and of the corrup-
ton of some English officials. The
love of the English officer for the
sepoy may not have been ideal
in that from Mr.. Masters picture
it did not take into account the
individuality or dignity of the ma
tives. But they had at least given
the natives peace and protection
from the avaricious rajahs who
exploited them far more relent-
leSsly.
Rodney Savage, dashing cap
tain of the Bengal Native Infan-
try, saw some of the signs of the
rising storm, but he was easily
duped by the fiery, compliant
Rani of Kishanpur, who calmly
admitted to him that she had
murdered her husband to seize
his throne for her son. Caroline
Langford, a. militant veteran OF
Florence Nightingale's Crimean
band, who insisted on minding
India's business despite the icy
disapproval of the English colony,
came even closer to uncovering
the plot that boiled over on the
night of the regiments hot
weather children's party.
Rodney and Caroline escape the
fury of that attack and thereafter
must make their may to the next
British fortress to warn OF the
spreading revolt. Rodney. mad
for vengeance, as his countrymen
later proved to be, lays about him
with a violence that prefgures the
"ecstacy of outrage" which Mr..
Masters mentions in his foreword.
Mr.. Masters attitude, as I say,
is on the Kiplingesque side. He
does not question the British right
to be in India, and he suggests
that the humble natives were
rather more grateful for their
presence than not. He honestly
shows Rodney as feeling complete
ly cut off from the country while
loving it. Naturally. a historical
novel is not the place to go into
these things too deeply. But ii
can be said that the Indian char
acters are not especially we'll done
particularly the RAM who seems
like a career glamour girl of any
time and country.
"Nightrunners Of Bengal" Is q
Literary Guild s-lccSion.
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star., 1951-01-21

UI16 WAL. MdI1y bOOhS law OCCA
written about and around the
overthrow of France. but it is
doubtful If any has pictured sc
wildly, in such authentic detail
what the debacle meant to the
average individual and with such
a crushing sense of finality. MOI
can there be much doubt that this
is Sartre's finest creation.
Troubled Sleep" is third in
the series of novels which the 46-
year-old Frenchman is writing
under the general title of THE
Roads to Freedom" The others
were THE Age of Reason" and
THE Reprieve." A fourth, "The
Last Chance" is in preparation.
But this sequence need not trouble
the reader who is dipping into
Sartre for the first time. "Trou-
bled Sleep" while it brings in
characters who appeared in the
earlier novels. is an independent
story which can be read alone.
Troubled Sleep" has none OF
the difficult prose and obscure
reasoning of Sartre's philosophl-
cal essays. The story points often
toward the existentialist philos-
ophy which Sartre has expounded
"a neo-Kirkegaardian system
that holds the individual respon-
sible for his acts rather than &C
cepting the naturalistic idea that
he does what he must. But this
concept and others are always
implied, never stated. The long
narrative flows on swiftly, pro-
PEELED by many characters, who
are caught in the swirl of van
quished nation in confused re-
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Short-Story Writer
Produces New Book
SUCH DARLING DODOS

SUCH DAZZLING DODOS
BY Angus Wilson. (Wtlliam Nor
row & Co.. $780,
Mr.. Wilson, a 37-year-old Eng
lish writer, caused some stir in
literary circles last year with
1.-THE Wrong Set" a collection of
mordant short stories. This new
volume of 10 more of the same
will doubtless add to his reputa-
ton as an unusually gifted chron-
icler of the spongers, idlers and
misfits Of present-day society. He
is not sympathetic either to the
dupers or the duped; he satirizes
both sides numerically. He has
also quite touch for the macabre
which he displays in "a Little
Companion" the story of a serene
spinster who is haunted by a vul-
gar little cockney wrath, and
Mummy to the Rescue" which
tells of a child whose parents are
lost on the Titanic. The stories in
general are skillful, if chilly.
MARY McGRoRY.
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he approves of Governments tax
ing if not spending programs
his audiences have accepted his
middle of -the-road analysis.
I'm not carrying torch for
anything except for the highest
standard of living for the great
est number of people," he de-
clareS.
Evening star., 1951-01-21
This Rogue Always
Comes Out on Top
JACKSON MAHAFFEY

JACKSON MAHAFFEY
BY Fred Ross. (Houghton-Mu-
tlin Co.; 49,
Men who meekly tread the
strait and narrow will doubtless
applaud Jackson Mahaffey, q
rogue who breaks all the rules
and always wins the game. The
Sunday school teacher that turks
in all women will deplore him
and his monotonous triumphs
over law, order and fair play and
long for him to get what is COM
ing to him.
jackson, a North Carolina
sporting farmer-miller. fights with
brass knuckles, lies and cheats
and chases women. The great love
of his life is stolen fighting
cock named Raymond. Even in
Center, where it is said of the
citizens, when trouble knocked
they were quick to unlatch the
door and drag it in," Jackson is
outstanding.
Jackson's big drive toward ras-
cally glory is momentarily stalled
when he meets pretty, pious Molly
Burns. But even after she finds
out in the course of slam-bang
barbecue mill-opening that Jack
son is not exactly the church
going, God-fearing man he has
represented himself to be. she
marries "the trifing scoundrel.' y
AS a husband. he calms down
considerably. but he soon back
slides-and into politics. Mr.. Ross
f1rst-person narrative is full OF
high good humor and lively
country talk and perhaps
shouldn't be taken too seriously
But Jackson, in his corkscrew
campaigning, resembles the in
fancy of too many demagogues
for comfort or complete enjoy
ment. jackson Mahaffey," which
is nothing more than a series OF
loosely connected episodes ir
postgraduate roguery and suffer!
from the pale, prim characterize
ton of Molly. won its author 8
Houghton- -Miff1in Literary Fellow
ship.
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vored anywhere from 4 to l to
10 to /.
For us to "let them average up
with us by taking Europe with her
huge industrial potential" as in
dicated in President Hoover's pro-
posal, he finds unthinkable. For
an engineer to pull that one" says
DR.. Nourse, shaking his gray head
He feels that one of our big jobs
is to destroy the myth of Russian
invincibility.
Economic Security Also.
While we build our military
strength we must also preserve
our economic security. in DR.
Nourse's view. National security
rests on the dollar, the Government
bond. and the price index just
as much as it does on the tank
the atom bomb and the radar net. D
"If Mr.. Marshall and Mr.. Will
son and Gen. Bradley can keep
the proper time perspective and
lag behind the hysteria of the
country and 60 on at an unper-
turbed rate, taking one step after
another by which you arrive at
true strength. think the Russians
would see time pulling against
them and make an accommoda-
ton"
He adds as corollary that
farm and labor groups must give
up their "underdog complex,
forgo pushing for special bene-
fits, and that business must make
real sacrifices, if we are to carry
the military burden.
We can't afford to pile on tor
of that. though, spending in the
military area, he believes
since we already had imitation
when war broke out in Korea.
AS for Senator Douglas rec
ommendation that we put 6 mil
lion Americans under arms, he
says, THAT was not Economist
Prof. Douglas talking. 1t was 1t
Col. Douglas of the Marines"
Not Carrying a Torch.
With grant as senior fel.
low of the Guggenheim Founda-
ton, DR.. Nourse works in ar
Office at 1885 K street NV. Dur
ing the last few months he ha.
been COMPRISING the talks he
has given from coast to coast into
a book-his 10th, but the frs
aimed at a popular audience
called 1.-THE 1950s Come First"
Since he resigned as the Presi
dents top economic adviser il
1948, the onetime vice presiden
of Brookings Institute has beer
transforming all over the coun
try, speaking to academic, farm
and business groups. He ad
dressed one labor meeting. bu
has been asked for no return en-
gagements.
He has been much bemused tt
find that in many cases, it is as
sumed that he has an anti-ad
ministration bias and that audi
ences have expected him to "cus
Harry out" Before a couple o
! meetings, members came up tt
him and told him confidentially
you're among friends here, s.
don't spare the horses"
But except for three or four in
dividuals who complained abou
his moderate approach - mucl
simplified, his stand seems to b
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quick pu S h =
button victory
on either side
out Of the ques-
ton, the strug-
gle b e t W e e n
East and West
settles down to
a tug-of-w of
relative eco
nomic strength.
And in petro-
leum and steel
resources alone,
Atlantic pact
nations are IA
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Bridge Players
By Margaret L. Fisher

This week end more than a
score of Wasllingtonians are test
ing their luck in Richmond's mid
winter city classic. BY next Fri
day better than half of D. c..
bridgedom will be off to Baltimore
to compete for Maryland State
titles.
Washington entries in the 18th
annual Maryland championships
will be numerous. The tourney
opens at 2 pm. Friday with mems
and women's pair contests. At 8
that night, Mrs. Freda Bentley
and Lew Levenson. both Localities.
will defend their mixed pair title.
The two-session "opens" begins
at 2 pm. Saturday, teams of-four
competing through afternoon and
evening rounds on Sunday. Start
ing time for the foursome contest
is / o'clock. All events will be
held at the Hotel Emerson, Alvin
Landy directing. Washington
players appointed to assist in
arranging partnerships are Mrs.
E. P. Cotter. Mrs. Doris Vosburgh.
Mrs. Margaret L. Fisher, Charles
johnson, Fred Karpin, Col. R. H.
Skinner. James G. Stone and
Lewis G. TubbS.
Washingtonians had seconds in
the Reading Pa0 first annual.
Col. R. H. Skinner-Charles Low
enburg captured runnerup honors
in the opens, Kathleen McNutt-
Doris Vosburgh-M Michael Michaels-
David Murray holding the same
spot in the team match. McNutt-
Vosburgh and Michaels-Murray
also shared second honors in the
Saturday night consolation.
A day earlier the large and ac-
tive WBL Women's Auxiliary in
the first business meeting of the
new year. began its plans for the
nationals. In the master-point
duplicate for members that fol-
lowed the luncheon meeting, Mrs
T. M. Boyle-Mrs. G. N. Poulieff
Mrs. Marianne Boschan-M Mrs. E. A
st. John, Mrs. J. G. Fletcher-Mrs
r. H. Skinner and Mrs. Greee
Custis-Mrs. E. R. Shepard were
the winners. Seconds to Mrs
Myrtle McMahan-Mrs Rose Rob-
ms, Mrs. j. R. McGhee-Mrs. M. L
Fisher. Mrs. William Poissant-Mrs
j. G. Seabourne and Mrs. D. D
Brodie-M Mrs. Dixie T. Wright.
Scoring a record 73 per cent
game, Mrs. Boschan and Col
Skinner were undisputed tops ir
the field Wednesday while COM
peting for the Washington Bridge
League semimonthly master-poin'
quota. They headed Ms con.
testants in Section B. best of theil
E-W competitors being Mrs. G. B
Porter-C. E. Thompson.
In Section A. Miller Robert:
bettered his average standing
with a sc per cent game, part
nered by E. G. Harris, jr. They
were E-W winners, the Ms tor
going to Kathleen McNutt anc
Mrs. Walter OLoughlin. Hal.
points in the two sections fell tt
Mrs. George Kathan-David Muir.
ray, 81 Katz-Walter O'Loughlin
C. c. Johnson-M. Michaels ane
Richard Freeman-J. G. Stone.
Other MASTER point winners dur
ing the past week were Mrs
Boschan and L. G. TubbS, with {
10 per cent game. and William
Poissant-J. G. Stone at tn
Stephan Studio on January IL
Mrs. E. A. St. John-John Overent
and Mrs. Ann Scruggs-Lt. Col. R
B. Carleton at the Chess Club las
Saturday night; the j. G. Sea
bournes and the John c. Kunkel
at the La Sale Studio Monday.
Runnerup awards went to Mrs
Seabourne-M Mrs. st. John, 81 Katz
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though he shares with the rest
of us misgivings about the i'm
mediate future. he remains calm
and hopeful, apparently turning a
deaf ear to the havoc-cryers who
abound in the Capitol.
He does not believe there is any
likelihood of an actual outbreak
of World War III. .
He bases his optimism on his
economists reasoning that with
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Reading and Writing
Presidents Ex-Adviser Looks for
Economic Ruther Than AII-Out War
By Mary McGrory

In Dr. Edwin G. Noulse former chairman OF President lrumans
Advisers will look in vain for the vndc-
often characterize the high Govern
official resigned from Office
speak my honest mind and conscience,
tolerant at with the world And
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Books in Review
All the BewiIdering Chaos of French
Defeat Is Pictured in Surtre Book
7
BY Jean-Paul Sartre. (Knopt; $500
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones

philosophical French novelist has caught France at the
defeat. Like he
the cities and the countryside his Of he
developed these fgratve films with the colors Of
and the clarity unsparng frightening discern
ment.
is Europe since