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GeorgeOrweII
Spanish War
Story Timely
Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia
BY George Orwell. (Harcourt,
Brace; $780,
First published in England in
1887. Immediately after the
events it describes, this personal
history of the Spanish War is
still timely. George Orwell was
among the earliest radicals to
see communism at close quar-
tiers and to observe at flrst-hand
it's sabotage of the Spanish revo-
luton.
The author of 1884" went to
Spain in 1886 to observe, but
stayed to fight in the ranks of
the P. o. U. NJ. militia, a motley,
ill-armed crew whose battle
shouts sounded to him more like
"the cries of kittens" On the
Aragon front, where buds on
both sides were the rule rather
than the exception, the war had
then its comic-opera aspect. It
was upon his return to BARGE
Iona that the ugly situation be-
hind the lines was borne in
upon him. With the outbreak
of street-fighting, his comrades
in the P. o. U. M. were de-
nounced as Fascists by the Com
muniSts who were Systematically
taking over control of the Army
and imprisoning the anarchists
and socialists. Orwell and his
wife barely escaped to England.
Mr.. Orwell's vivid recollection
of life at the front and his de-
failing OF the issues behind his
civil war within a civil war is
not marred by any of the hind
sight wisdom that usually char
acterizes books of this nature.
Though thoroughly disillusioned
and convinced that the Commu-
nists had taken over what to
him had started out as a true
workers revolution, he still pre-
ferred victory for the govern
ment rather than for Franco.
THE Popular Front might be a
Swindle. but Franco was an
anachronism. Only millionaires
or romantics could want him to
Win." M. Meg.
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appearance. The kidney-Shaped
bowl is the best of this group.
Prof. Kline is president of
the Washington Sculptors'
group and a member of the
Society of Washington Artists
and has exhibited in many local
and area shows here and in the
South. Besides his study at
George Washington. he COM
pleted graduate work in archi-
lecture and fine arts at the
Beaux Arts. Fontainebleau and
at Catholic University.
Alfred McAdamS is also an
alumnus of George Washington
and the Corcoran School, COM
pleted graduate work in archi-
lecture at the Royal Academy
in Stockholm and in fine arts
at Indiana University. He had
a one-man show at the Whyte
Gallery and has participated in
many local and area shows here.
He is one of six artist members
of the Corcoran Gallery, show
ing work there through the
summer. Mr.. McAdams is
graphic designer at the Depart
ment Of State.
He, too, has more than 20
paintings on view at George
Washington, about half of them
in gouache. others in oil, pen
and ink. watercolor and crayon.
His paintings are abstract in
most instances, many of them
having subtle Victorian over
tones, with forms and details
and decorative arabesQues
drawn In ink.
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Man From Abilene
BY Kelvin Mccain. Doubleday; $2.5OJ
Reviewed BY joseph A, Fox

This rather casual study of
the career of Gen. Dwight D.
EiSenhower-"a story of leader
ship" is the authors description
leaves two principal impress
Sions.
First. that the man who may
be the 34th President of the
United States has demonstrated
tremendous organizational abil-
ity while operating in the frame
work of the military, at home
and abroad.
Second. that Gen. Eisenhower
has still to reduce his own
thinking on domestic economy
to concrete form. Generally.
his views, as disclosed in per-
sonal correspondence, memo
randa and private conversation,
are on the conservative side. But
there is a striking paradox in
his strong advocacy. on the. one
hand. of support for the free
nations. and. on the other, of
his equal insistence on tax re-
duction.
The writer pictures the SOL
der as essentially an individu-
alist.
Alwoys on His Own
If he has always relied on
Others" he says. Eisenhower,
in all things decisive and criti-
Cal. has stood apart from them,
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Thursday, a group of II paint
ings in oil and watercolor. 7
just received as gifts. The Phil
lips Gallery has presented
paintings. Green Landscape"
by Milton Avery. painted 1945.
is one of his better works, it
seems to me, as it has no large
empty color areas which mar
some of his paintings. Father
and Son" by Rockwell Kent is
the most appealing work in the
group, showing in simplified
forms the fathers tender re-
Spouse to the child's eager af-
lection, Harold Westons little
glimpse of an interior with a
cat is well composed with a har-
monious color scheme.
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The Young George du Mourier. Letters. 1860-6

EuIGCO Wy OdpIlIlC Ou Ndu1 lCA q.
AS a labor of love and ances-
trail piety, Daphne du Maurier
has gathered together the letters
of her grandfather. who was
also a novelist and a famous
artist Of his day. 1t is a most
engaging collection.
The young George du Maurier.
always known as "Kicky," was
that rare thing, a sunny man
of talent. He was candid, OPEN
hearted. affectionate. His youth.
full struggles to establish him.
self as an illustrator on Punch
did not embitter him. He OBJ
served the life around him with
frank enjoyment. and his re-
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Books in Review
Sotirizing the Shurecroppers
Of Recent Southern Literature )
Wise Blood
BY Flannery O'Connor. (Harcourt, Brace; 49,
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones
Wise Blood

Southern writer's Of the real
ist-naturalist school have been
asking for it. Meaning, some
body who would satirize them
and their characters. Such a
parodist has been long overdue.
Miss O'Connor, a brash &C.
year-old novice from Savannah,
Ca. seems to be one who can
do 1t. In this first novel, she
takes of with savage wit and
hard-boiled understanding, even
a measure of sympathy, the
sharecroppers and hillbillies of
recent Southern literature. Her
odd and primitive characters
reflect. in their own way, every
such example of decadence who
has lurked within a book on the
unromantic South. You have
here a little of Faulkner's
Snopeses, something of Erskine
Caldwell's letters. a glimpse Of
Carson McCuller's strange in
articulates and heaven knows
who else.
SkilIfuI Porodyinq
Don't think wise Blood" is a
slapstick burlesque. Almost
anybody could do that and it
probably wouldn't be very funny
such heavy attempts usually
get tedious after a few pages.
Miss O'Connor's story has the
subtlety and outward innocence
of true satire. In fact, you
might read a number of pages
without realizing it was any,
thing but straight story. She
doesn't write like anybody; she
discloses a fresh talent not OBJ
viously derived. But the effects
she achieves are as devastating
as If Evelyn Waugh had turned
himself loose on the poor whites
depicted in many popular chron-
icles. In horror, indeed, wise
Blood" matches Mr.. Waugh's
little fable Of the Hollywood
requiem, 1.-THE Loved One"
Haze Notes, who halls from
Eastrod. Tenn, is back from
four years at war. He's a hill
billy to end all hillbillies. His
people are gone and his old
home IS a Sagging ruin. So he
goes to a place called Taulkin-
ham-for no particular reason
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Here. for the first time, is a
comprehensive and realistic re-
port on progress in the big job
.of arming Western Europe to
meet Soviet aggression. Under
Gen. Eisenhower's leadership
enormous difficulties have been
met. but much more remains to
be done before Allied forces can
face the Russians on anything
Like equal termA
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(DoubledGu: $500

tOONOtSUUy1 pH.0o"
marks on James Mcneil Whistler
and the pre-Raphaelites who
postured in the salons of the day
are both kind and shrewd. He
was loving son and fiance, a
good brother. When he finally
realized his dearest wish and
married the lovely Emma Wight
wick. he became a good hus-
band and father. He was
model Victorian, says his grand
daughter, who decries the pass
ing Of the virtues Of that age.
The book is illustrated with
du Maurier's drawings, which
are as gently humorous as the
~ M. Meg.
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and Grant. Washington, of
course, was the hero of the new
republic. and William Henry
Harrison was presented to the
people as q warrior.
And yet the people have
blown hot and cold on military
men, the authors bring out.
There has always been an
amount Of prejudice against
what in later years came to be
called militarism. In the past
generals often were political ap-
pointeeS. sometimes with little
or no military experience. There
Is a modern note in the cynical
comment Of a Congressman in
1921: "A tour Of duty in Wash
ington is worth two in the
field"
Mr.. and Mrs. Goebel have
written an informative book,
necessarily incomplete because
of its condensation. The writ
ing at times is more pedantic
than lucid. &C. B. ].
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except that he's heard Of it.
Strangers think that, with his
broad hat and his $11.98 suit. he
looks like an itinerant preach
er. He decides he might as
well be one.
He buys a wreck of a car for
$40 and. standing on the hood,
breaches along the streets. He
breaches about the Church
Without Christ, which he
thought up. He went into the
Army determined not to let
himself be led into sin. He re-
turns feeling that any one who
doesn't sin is a sucker. Passers-
by listen to him for a while and
move on. Nobody joins his
church except one man who also
is looking for a good religious
racket.
Haze, meanwhile, is bedeviled
by an 18-year-old kid named
Enoch Emery, who has a job
at the local zoo. Enoch isn't
quite all there-he is just a little
retarded-but he can annoy
people with great enthusiasm.
He has certain modest ambi-
tons. which he attains in part.
The FIovor Lingers
Then there is a blind evange-
list of the streets and his daugh-
ter. Haze finds out eventually
that the blind man can see as
we'll as any one and that his
daughter. whom Haze planned
to seduce, is all set to seduce
him. His situation is compli-
Gated by the rival street speak
er, Hoover Shoats, who steals
Haze's ideas. And there's
Shoats' stooge, the Prophet"
Solace Layfield, who has the
nerve to look and dress like
Haze. Confronted with a vio-
lent. vengeful Haze. the "Proph-
ct" protests: II amt trying to
mock you. He bought me
thisyer suit. I thrown my othern
away"
But it's impossible to do more
than suggest the flavor of this
book-a compound Of fantastic
humor and macabre brutality.
I hope you'll read it. I know
I won't willingly miss anything
else Miss O'Connor writes.
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The timeliness Of this book Is
obvious. The authors have re-
viewed briefly the careers of
nine Presidents, who had at
some time in their adventures
had held the rank Of general.
Not all. like tho present presi-
Dental possibility. Gen. Eisen-
hover. were professional SOL
dierA Several were. Others
were part-time soldiers, like
Hayes, Garfield and Benja-
min Harrison. While they were
generals Of volunteers dur
ing the Civil War. they entered
conflict from civil life and never
followed arms as q profession.
The war records Of those three
certainly did them no harm,
but none was elected on that
account. AS the authors point
out, the instances where q pop
ular hero rode into the White
House on q wave of patriotism
have been comparatively rare.
Such were the elections Of An
drew jackson, Zachary Taylor
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uIed 5 u T II &
their counsel
against his
own convic-
tionS."
Gen. Eisen-
hoWer's stand
on this Ma
tons foreign
relations is
W ii known,
and IN q n
F r o m Abb
lene." conse-
quently, con-
tributes Moth
ing new in
this reSnect
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The Defense of Western Europe
By Drew Middleton. Appleton Century, Crotts $780,

Century-CrottS;; $780,
Mr.. Middleton. head Of the
European bureau Of the New
York Times, is interested not
only in the top-level planning
but in the way it works out in
the field. His book Is a valuable
contribution toward an under
standing Of what we are trying
to do In Europe and our chances
Of averting World War III.
-RKARoNF YARnR
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In Porcelain

An unusual and beguiling ex-
hibition Of some 20 miniature
bas-relief portraits of children
in Parian porcelain, is on view
at the Veerhoff Galleries, 1912
Connecticut avenue. It includes
two children of Washington
residents. Mr.. and Mrs. E. Tay-
lor Chewing. jr.. and one Of
Arthur Scharfeld.
These charming medallions
are the work of Adelaide Althin
Toombs Of Boston, who draws
her youthful models from life,
directly into the clay. Captur-
ing the budding personalities
and individual characteristics of
the children is the least of her
difficulties. After completing
the miniature, the artist has to
pour a mold, cast the medallion
in the porcelain material and fire
it in hotter kiln than ordinary
clay requires. The portraits are
in white Parian against a back
ground of subtle tint, Wedg-
wood blue, gray-green. mauve
or other delicate color, and
framed, some in velvet, some in
gold.
Miss Toombs is probably the
only American artist working
in this medium. After grad
uating from the Massachusetts,
School Of Art she studied in the
ceramics department of the
Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology for two years, max
ing and firing Parian porcelain
objects. Her medallions have
been exhibited in Boston, Phil
adelphia and New York, and
also at the Corcoran here. Be-
sides this solo exhibition she is
represented in the current 10Th
annual of the Miniature Paint
ers, SculptorS and Gravers So
ciety at the National Museum.
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Necessary Evil. The Life Of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Macmillan; $780,

IASOAA. MUSUtTtuHS |.oUI
but where it went awry or how
they do not venture to say.
The picture Of Jane that
energies is not sympathetic.
She sounds selfish, willful, petty.
mad to be made of. How such
a woman won and held the af-
fections of a wide variety Of
people for her lifetime is not
satisfactorily explained. Her
letters speak better for her.
M. Meg.
Caesar
BY Gerald Walter. (Scrib-
ners;; So
Read this book and you will
realize how little you came to
know Of q complex and inter-
esting personality from reading
his accounts of his wars in Gaul
in Latin courses and taking the
usual ancient history courses.
Caesar came to control prac-
tically all of the ancient world
about as much territory as
did Hitler in 1912. He was a
dictator. too. but his soldiers
could still rib him at the apex
of his glory about his amorous
exploits-and get away with it.
Proud, ambitious, frequently
INSCRIPTIONS, fabulously ex-
travagant, one of the worlds
great generals, this is the
Caesar the reader gets to know
in Mr.. Walters book. His
friends and enemies became liv-
ing persons. too. Mr.. Walter
makes the world Of ancient
Rome seem quite near, although
frequently he becomes tedious
In doing it.
The book is translated from
the French by Emma Craufurd.
FRANCIS DOUGLAS.
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V1110 4N0FNOVs
A letter he wrote q friend
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Watkins Accessions

Watkins Gallery, American
University. opened last Sunday,
to remain only through next
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Generals in the White House

BY Dorothy julius Goebe jr (Doub1edav $50
, 1952-02-28
Death Sentence
Continued from page one

Continued from page one
main points:
1. That he didn't intend to kill
anyone but merely hoped to "dem-
~onstrate" to focus attention on
conditions in Puerto Rico.
2. That Judge T. Alan Colds
borough erred in refusing to let
ColIazo present his views on Puer-
to Rico during his federal court
trial.
In a 28-page opinion written by
Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, the
Appeals court noted Collazo's adj
mission that he intended to shoot
White House Policeman Donald
Birdzell, one of the wounded Of
ficers.
The Appeals court insisted that
this established the crime. Further
more it maintained that Collazo's
views on Puerto Rico would not
have answered the question of
whether the Staying of Coffelt was
intentional.
, 1952-02-28
would be fruitless.
intentional

II was the second to jump. AT
ter making sure I was clear of the
tail section, I pulled the cord. It
was almost four full minutes be-
fore [ landed in a tree in a little
settlement outside the city. My
chute got fouled up in the tree
and when I freed myself, I fell
several feet to the ground. I yelled
and after a while a family near
by came to my aid and police
brought me to the hotel here"
One of the three injured men
was brought down from a hilltop
on a toboggan. He had suffered
several fractured ribs.
The wrecked plane, a CAT, was
found on the banks of the Sydney
river in an uninhabited section
about eight miles from the Sgd
ney airport.
Grew members besides Koblen-
ski were Capt. w. L. Riley, CO.
pilot; S-Sgt. R. F. Redinger and
Sgt. A. Harron.
The passengers did not include
any Ohioans.
, 1952-02-28
Z PORT'

American Cyanamid was a fea-
ture with a run-up Of 3h points
on the news that directors were
considering a stock split. Else
where in the industrials, fractional
advances were chalkel up by u.
S. Steel, Union Carbide, Interna-
tional Nickel, Chrysler and Bethle-
hem Steel.
Atlantic Coast line highlighted
the rails with a gain of / II points.
Southern Pacific, New York Cen
trail and Pennsylvania were up
small fractions.
At II a. m. the Dow-Jones av-
erage was up Use; the rails gained
27c and utilities were down &c.
Volume in the first hour eased
slightly to 100000 shares.
Curb stocks were irregularly
higher. Big board bonds ruled
firm. Cotton sold off nearly 81 a
bale in a mixed commodity list.
, 1952-02-28
side Of the street.

side of the street.
Charles Williams, home at large,
was fined $50 and costs and sent
enced to 80 days in the work house
on a vagrancy charge.
In Common Pleas court, Judge
Charles Lee Mills ordered dismis-
sal of a damage suit for $4,000
filed against the Cincinnati and
Lake Erie Transportation COM
pany. The suit had been filed by
Ben T. Helton Of Middletown, and
grew out of a traffic accident on
U. S. Route 25, five years ago.
The judge ruled that the plain
tiff's own testimony showed him
guilty of contributory negligence.
Robert l.. Petty, 1902 West
Thid street, was ruled irrational
at the time he fired a volley of
shots at Dayton policemen last
November. The hearing was held
in the court of Judge Don R.
Thomas.
Detectives yesterday captured
Lewis E.. Morris, 537 West Third,
, 1952-02-28
Korean War.

Continued From Page One
leaflets.
Dropped on the ridges and
peaks near H~eartbreak Ridge and
the Punchbowl, the leaflets told
the Allied troops to "go home"
They blamed the United Ma
tions command for delaying the
Panmunjom truce negotiations by
continuing large-scale air attacks.
The English language leaflets
also recalled the alleged Allied air
vioations Of Panmunjom and Kae-
song, the original truce confer
ence site and now the scene of the
Red delegations headquarters.
The Eighth Army reported that
some 353 Communist shells con-
tanning leaflets were dropped neal
Heartbreak Ridge and the Punch
bowl Wednesday.
Additionally, Red gunners fired
some 1000 rounds of mortar and
artillery with intent to kill and
not to propagandize.
Allied guns replied in kind, con-
centrating a large part of their
fire in the Heartbreak Ridge area.
A frontline officer said there
were two kinds Of leaflets, both
in English. One contained a pic
ture of an Allied warplane over a
defended bunker and the accom-
panying writing blamed the indis-
criminate use of air power and a
thigh level" policy decision of the
Allies for the delays in the cease
fire talks.
The leaflet said that if the UN
really wanted peace, a cease fire
would have been reached by now.
The second leaflet was described
as zone playing on nostalgia
theme" 1t asked Allied troops if
they did not miss their wives and
families back home and did not
wish to return to them.
, 1952-02-28

Continued From Page 1
tor in the ring looked a wee bit
over the hill.
1t was a hurt and furious Rob-
inson who dashed out in rage and
embarrassment to stop the Brit
Usher. Otherwise, Robbie was not
Robbie, on that occasion. With no
further bouts to use as a barom-
eter, the Champ is now a center
of controversy.
, 1952-02-28

Continued from Page u
Sydney for scheduled re-fueling,
We sensed trouble but we all had
confidence in our pilot, Capt. T.
F. Koblenski.
GAS the hours wore on, how
ever, and our fuel supply a. low,
we knew then we were in for
something.
"When we finally arrived over
Sydney, however, the storm was
so bad the pilot couldn't even see
the airport. Despite this, he made
20 passes at it in an attempted
instrument landing without suc-
cess"
Hessler continued:
"After the last try, Capt. Kob-
lenski gave up and ordered all
aboard to chute up. He an
nounced there was only a three
to five minute fuel supply left and
that further attempts to land
, 1952-02-28
COURT
Re PORT

Will Upton, 117A South Broad
way street, was fined $75 and
costs on charge of driving while
intoxicated, and received a sent
ence of five nights in the work
house from Judge Paul Sherer
in Municipal court yesterday.
Reese Camden, 1904 Fair Park
avenue, was fined $50 and costs
and lost his right to drive for one
year for driving on the wrong
, 1952-02-28
MARKET
BY THEODORE KOSLOW
international News Service
Financial Writer

NEW YORK, Feb. %. (INS)-
The stock market showed a pre-
ponderance of small gains today in
a mild extension o fthe rallying
movement which developed yester-
day.
However, most traders were re-
luctant to take part in the pro-
ceedings and the list failed to get
very far on the upside. There ap-
peared to be a we'll defined belief
in Wall street that some selling
might develop to obtain funds for
the March Is income tax deadline.
and this was a factor influencing
a temporary hands-off attitude.
, 1952-02-28
Ii is your Government
take a part I'm it and Register
and DO 1T NOW!
7 abernucIe-...'

Continued From Page One
sage at T p. m. Mrs. Ethel Owings
is general chairman of the day.
The public is urged to take advan-
tage of this opportunity to join
the world in prayer.
, 1952-02-28

as a fugitive from the state OF
Virginia where he had formerly
escaped from a road gang, after
being sentenced for house breaking
and larceny.
Evening star., 1952-09-04
British Unions Repe| Left Winq
NATO Receives Shot in Arm Workers Defeat Communist
Attempt to Slow Defense and Emphasize Domestic Issues

the American Government had
not thrown it's people into a
tizzy Of war hysteria, the East
West conflict would have re-
mained dormant and Western
Europe could have proceeded
with business as usual with the
nearly 800 million people behind
the Iron Curtain.
Mr.. Bevan is by no stretch
Of the imagination a Commu-
mist or Moscow sympathizer.
But he has convinced himself
that the economic ills of Great
Britain. which were solved
neither by the heavy l946
American loan nor by the Mar
shall Plan. could be cured only
by extensive trade with the
USSR and her satellites. His
speeches appealed to the rank
and file in his country, who
considered him the logical sue
cessor to the Americana
minded" Mr.. Attlee in the Labor
Party leadership.
The victory of the conserva-
tive groups in the Trade Union
Council this week may have i'm
portant repercussions at next
months meeting when the
leadership of the Labor Party
will be decided. But observers
in England point out that other
groups with more definite pol
itical ideas" will participate at
that convention than at the
TUG.