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Evening star., 1952-05-17
By Richard Rodgers

/ Margaret Truman played politi-
cal scientist last night at a meet
ing devoted to applauding women
lawmakers.
She was mistress of ceremonies
for review of the distaff history
of the House and Senate. The
affair was held in the headquar-
ters of the American Association
of University Women, at 1884
street NV. The Washington
AAUW branch sponsored it.
Miss Truman charmed even the
Republican ladies in the audience.
She endured a reception line with
enormous good humor-although
she had just left one-sipped a
cup of ginger ale punch. nibbled
at a dab of something or other,
and had the crowd of university
alumni firmly in hand before ut
tering a word of her canned lee
Iture.
Introduces COngreSSwOmen.
She introduced four Congress-
women, who told how they got
Evening star., 1952-05-17
House Group May Move to Trim WSB Powers

expected to recommend that the
WSB be confined to fact-finding
duties. The board now recon-
mends terms for settling labor
management disputes.
Put in Production Act.
Changes in the WSB-if voted
presumably would be made
when the legislation to extend the
Defense Production Act comes be-
fore the House. The Senate
Banking Committee wrote its
proposals in that act. 1t expires
June 80 unless extended.
The House Labor Committee is
in recess until next Wednesday
and is not expected to complete
its study before June /.
Meanwhile. the House Judiciary
Committee considered a specific
ban on Government seizure of
the steel mills proposed in a bill
to extend some so emergency
powers of the President.
Chairman Feighan said the
Evening star., 1952-05-17
BY the Associated Press

The House Labor Comraittee is
expected to recommend a drastic
reorganization Of the Wage
Sterilization Board and a sharp
reduction in its powers as a re-
suit Of the steel wage dispute.
This was the opinion today of
some key members of the COM
mittee who have been hearing
Testimony the past two weeks on
the boards controversial recon-
mendations in the steel case.
Similar to Senate Changes.
The changes in the WSB the
Labor Committee is expected to
recommend follow closely those
voted this week by the Senate
Banking Committee:
/. All members of the board
would be representatives of the
public. The present board con-
sists Of six members each for
labor, industry and the public.
2. Make appointment of board
members subject to Senate con-
flrmation. Present board appoint
mentS are not.
3. Eliminate the boards au-
thority to intervene in labor-man
Iagement disputes. especially nom
economic disputes like the union
shop, and limit it to wage stabil-
iZation functions.
WSB's recommendation Of a
union shop for the steel industry
under which all its workers would
have to join the steel union-has
been sharply criticized by industry
and by some members of Congress
The Labor Committee also was
Evening star., 1952-05-17
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Evening star., 1952-05-17

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Evening star., 1952-05-17
Cozy Bungalow
Only $16,250

Living room with fireplace. full-sized
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to Langley and RIGHT to property.
Evening star., 1952-05-17

subcommittee he heads expects
to decide the steel seizure pro-
posal at meeting Monday and
send the bill to the full commit
tee for action Tuesday.
Mr.. Feighan said he doubted if
the seizure ban would be approved
by the subcommittee.
Evening star., 1952-05-17
Conodu's Fish Worth More

OTTAWA. Canada's CONNER
cial fisheries production had a
marketed value in 1851 OF nearly
5000 million, an increase of about
$40 million over 1850.
Evening star., 1952-05-25
A Terror I rail of TotoIitoriun
Torture and Assassination
The Time Of the Assussins
BY Godfrey Blunden. n. b. Lippincott; $3.75)

house kept by an unpolitical
woman. Maryusa Selova, who
shelters all the children who
come and loves them impair
TALLY.
AS the Nazis push on to Mos
COW, the ActivistS, Soviet under-
ground workers appear on the
scene. The question Of loyalties
becomes more ambiguous. When
the Soviet armies return,
Maryusa is dragged through the
streets to be spat upon by the
citizenry prior to being liquidat-
ed by the NKVD.
The action of "The Time of
the ASSasSinS' is diffuSe, spread
over many groups and charac-
terS not sufficiently identified.
But the moral is clear. Human
ity, as represented by Maryusa.
caught between the upper and
neither millstones Of opposing
relationships, is doomed. MIR.
Bluden, author of "A Room on
the Route" is q British CORES
pondent who went into Kharkov
with the victorious Russians.
The only distinction he makes
between Nazis and Communists
is that the Nazis had come to
enjoy murder for its own sake.
while the Communists. no more
squeamish, always used it for
political purposes.
IN. MEG.
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Tokeoff
tn. Doubleday; $2.75.)
Reviewed BY WilIiom Hines

- " -
Three weeks ago, q review on
this page prophesied that sci
fiction. mystery and sus-
pense would some day be blend
ed skillfully to produce q new
form of thriller literature.
Rarely has a prediction come
true so quickly.
Mr.. Kornbluth, a familiar
name to devoted science-f1ction
fans, has built a combination
murder mystery and spy story
around a moon rocket in such
a fashion as to please readers
of all three categorieS. He even
gets q little sex into it; not
much and not dirty. but sex
nevertheleSS-a rare ingredient
in science-fiction.
The story is no lnearthly ac-
count of space travel in the
99th century. It Is laid in the
near future. at a time when
a bureaucrat in Washington
would decorate his wall with
pictures of "ex-President Tru-
man, ex-President Warren and
President Douglas" paul or
William O.?). Its characters
are scientists, engineers, civil
servants. politicians and just
plain folks all of them quite
believable. It's central gimmick
is the moon rocket which space
bugs are trying to build, pre-
sumably against the wishes Of
the United States Government.
A faithful engineer learns too
much and gets knocked on. A
lovely blond turns out to be q
Evening star., 1952-05-25

town. not to be confused with
cities called Alexandria in Vir-
ginia and In Louisiana.
The book is the work Of q
writer who is wise and tolerant,
who looks searchingly into his
characters and touches their
utmost longings and fears. Most
Of these characters are literate
persons, able to express them
selves intelligently and in pass.
able English. Some are highly
educated. There are those with
little money, but few are poor
whites. a generic title for a
forlorn, illiterate group depicted
by many writer's, both Northern
and Southern, as dominating
such towns. Mr.. Mills knows the
average citizen is not like that.
The authors method is
psychological and philosophical
rather than naturalistic. He is
interested primarily in what
his people think, why they 60.
their certain ways. Their at
titudes are even more important
than the events that waylay
them. The result is q feeling
that in the end you know the
collective mind of Alexandria
q confused. paradoxical COM
plex Of love and hate. generosity
and meanness. bigotry and SYM
pathy, shrewdness and stupidity.
None You Con Skip
It Is a vast canvas Mr.. Mills
has painted. The book runs to
nearly TOO large pages. The
shippers and skimmers will not
get much out of it. It is very
long-it might well have been
shorter-and yet there are few
pages without purpose. The au-
thor does not incline to the de-
tailed descriptions of scenes,
weather and people that usually
spread books to formidable
length. He Is concerned almost
entirely with what happens to
characters, what effects the adj
venture Of living has on each.
II you skip . couple Of pages,
Evening star., 1952-05-25

ton. They refused to let the
villagers grow the rice that was
their staff Of life. There was
violence and the provincial gov
ernment accused the natives Of
being allied with the Commu-
nists operating in the north.
Windom Indignantly denied his
friends were Reds. He was, in
the end, disillusioned. His final
decision is not too plausible.
The story suggests what hap
pened not long ago to a surgeon
in Burma who was imprisoned
for alleged aid to the Commu-
nists. But MIR. Ullman insists
that WINDOWS Way" is entire
ly fiction. It is a fast-moving
story; yet it lacks the care and
skill in atmosphere and caarac-
terization that made River of
the Sun" an unusual novel.
Windows Way" is a smoother
job-slicker. If you like-and it
made serialization in a popular
weekly. It also is a Literary
Guild selection. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Windom's Way
BY James Ramsey Ullman. fLippincott: s3J

The author Of 1.-THE White
Tower" and River of the Sun"
has written an exciting novel
about the adventures of an
American doctor in Southeast
ern Asia in the postwar years.
DR.. Window, q dedicated man,
had served in this area in the
war and returned to take over q
hospital set up for the natives in
q remote region. Ten years be-
fore. he had married o wealthy
woman. She had contrived to
cut him In on o rich New York
proctice, but he wasn't happy
and they didn't get along. Now,
after they had been separated
two years. she came to join him
In the Asiatic village. hoping to
adjust herself to his life and
help him in his work. But Le-
more didn't know what she was
letting herself in for. The doc
tor. meanwhile, had espoused
the cause Of natives who were
on strike against the all-power-
full owners OF the rubber planta-
Evening star., 1952-05-25

WITNESS is, in reality, FIVE books in one:
a terrible because true) spy story. :
a shocking account of the Commu-
mist Fifth Column which infiltated the
U. S. Government and American life,
as seen by man who was there, took
part in it, and who names names.
. The inside story Of the Hiss Case by
the man who went through it all. step
by step.
: The clearest and most convincing
answer yet given to the question: why
did so many intellectuals become Com
munists in the early l930'sp
"A human document unusual in any
age. For before Whitaker Chambers
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Reoding and Writing
Certoin Government Servants and Authors
Who Show They Have Minds Of Their Own
By Mory McGrory

The Book Of the Month Club
lost its semantics struggle with
the Federal Trade Commission.
Henceforward it must not use
the word "free" in its adver-
tising. Commissioner Lowell T.
Mason. however, went down
shooting, as he so often does.
1p his dissenting opinion, he
charged that the ban arose
from "a hidden hunger to is
sue mandates"
There is nothing like a good
PRONUNCIATION to satisfy the
emotional i'd (ego) of a Govern
ment agency" said this OUT
spoken critic of gobbledygook.
His words apparently struck
q chord in the provinces. His
Office has received some lauda-
tory letters from like-minded
citizens. one of whom wrote in
that he intended to frame the
Commissioners remarks along
with the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Gettysburg
Address" This intention may
run into some technical diff
culties. Commissioner Mason's
minority report ran to 5a
single-spaced typewriter pages.
Provocative Book
Another Government servant
with Q mind of his own and
considerable talent for speaking
1t is William Seagle, Assistant
Solicitor in the Department Of
the Interior, and author of a
provocative new book called
Law: The Science Of Ineffi-
ciency."
It provides unusually lively
reading on q usually dry sub
ject.. A few excerpts will give
the flavor.
Law and politics are fuller
Of double talk than baseball Is
Of double plays"
OF his own line of work:
There is only one system that
is worse than q civil service
system, and that is no civil
civil service system at all. The
choice here is, as usual. a choice
between evils-a choice between
the evils of the spoils system
and the evils of bureaucracy.
which has bstituted the
apathy for the insolence Of pub
lie Office"
Mr.. Seagle, who handles In
dian legal affairs for Interior.
is not, however, one of your
reformers. Philosophically, he
says, Nevertheless. as long as
rights and duties are the SUBJ
jects Of legal control and regu-
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Books in Review
Author Mills Has Done d Great
Piece Of Narrative Writing
The Aiexondrions
BY Charles Mills. putnam; 81
Reviewed BY Carter Brooke Jones

you are liable to miss an i'm
portant turn in the narrative.
Despite the books length. there
is great economy In presenting
dramatic moments.
There are dozens Of charac-
tiers. Indeed, it is hard some
times to identify them as they
keep reappearing - they and
their children and grandchil-
dren. It is difficult to remember
who is related to whom and in
what way. A cast of characters
and a genealogical chart might
have helped. Some stand out in
the narrative. like Anna Ander-
son Redding, born a decade
after the town was founded in
1889 and living to see its CEN
tennial celebration. She is a
powerful woman, strong
minded. seeing through the
shams and pretenses of her fell
low townsmen, yet never mali
cious. Her grandson, John Red
ding, an enlightened young
man, dominates the later chap
ters.
The early part Of the story,
with its somber recital of life
and death, so often death, in
the lonely village. has almost
an elegiac quality. And you
may decide Mr.. Mills hasn't
much humor. But wait until
you get to page 301 and the
wedding of Lucy and Frank.
There is no funnier scene in
recent literature. But the most
hilarious pages are yet to come.
They are in the closing chap
ters-Alexandria's centennial.
They are focused on the dinner
party for the Senator, who has
come home after "a years-the
son Of the towns most dubious
and back-of -the-yards woman,
dead these many years but, Of
course, remembered.
Looking for a Post
Earlier. the perceptive Miss
Volly johnson, the old music
teacher, explains the obsession
of some Alexandrians with
their past. "They make reality
so wretchedly dull that no hui
man could stand it. SO they go
looking for a past which never
existed. they work passionately
for a future they've not even
imagined, or they find what
satisfaction there can be in
dullness by celebrating it
which is a very destructive
thing for people to do"
At the height Of Alexandria's
modern pretentiousness is Nina
Chaucer Moore. whose exclu-
siveness had almost reached
being perfect solitude"
The author is SO and was
born in Griffin, Ga. He pub
lished one previous novel. "The
Choice" in 1943.
Evening star., 1952-05-25

lation. the traditional evils
must be expected"
A native New Yorker and a
Government lawyer since 1887,
Mr.. Seagle is also the author
of 1.-THE Quest for Law" (recent-
ly translated into Germany and
"Men of Law: From Hammu-
rabi to Holmes"
Tibeton Skylines
After a lifetime spent in the
Orient, Robert Ekvall is about
to embark on a new life Of writ
ing about it. Born In China of
missionary parents and himself
a lay missionary for seven years
in Tibet, he has just seen pub
lication of "Tibetan Skylines"
and is finishing UP a transla-
ton of an ancient Tibetan
drama.
In his home in darlington
last year, he gave sanctuary to
the brother of the religious Lead
er of the Tibetans, the Dalai
Lama. The young man is now
in Berkeley. Calf, at the Ti-
betan Research Institute. Mr..
Ekvall would eventually like to
go there himself to join the Or
iental scholars who are pooling
their knowledge of the remote
mountain country. which now is
being occupied by the Red
Chinese.
The Tibetans' reaction to oc-
cupation, Mr.. Ekvall thinks will
be conditioned by their extra
ordinary devotion to religion
and their intense dislike and
fear of the Chinese. The Chi
nese may have been motivated
to some extent in the inva-
sion by vengeance-to recoup
the prestige they lost when on
their Long March in 1889 they
were forced to turn back in
Tibet.
During his years among them,
Mr.. Ekvall found the Tibetans
hardy and cheerful people.
Their answer to the traditional
Tibetan greeting of ANY trou-
ble?" is always a sturdy. mo
trouble at all"
Duncan Enrich, chief Of the
folklore section of the Library
Of Congress. and author of Its
an Old Wild West Custom" and
"Comstock Bonanza" has been
granted a Fulbright scholarship
which will take him to Rome
next year. He will teach q course
in American folklore as an ex-
preston of American Culture"
at the University Of Rome.
Evening star., 1952-05-25

however. was a mysterious man
called Karandash. once a
Bolshevik and always an un-
compromising Ukrainian sepa-
tist. One Of the first to see the
dossiers. he had quietly removed
two that bore on his old COM
rades. Thus Lydia Artemova.
q fanatical party member, and
her old lover. Professor Shev-
chenko. survive the months Of
terror.
The focal point Of this unre-
lievedly grim tale is the school
Evening star., 1952-05-25

In hight, the
C o m munists
had left their
files Of party
members in
tact. TIL US
expedited. the
e KITE r NINA
ton Of local
C m munists
W q S carried
out W it h
vaunted Nazi
efficiency.
A m o n g
their political
= Il
Evening star., 1952-05-25

1949. AS an
old friend Of
several high
Y u g o slav
c o m m u mist
Officials he
w as w e l.
coined with
o p e n arms.
He was inter-
ested. and
obviously i'm
press ed. by
Tito. and de-
votes m uc h
Of his book to
. combined
Evening star., 1952-05-25
The Eagle and the Roots
Doubleday; $50
BY Louis Adamic.
Reviewed by Belmont Fories

Louis Adamic, who loved
Yugoslavia. would have been
the last to suggest that this Is
an objective or impartial book.
It Is q completely sympathetic
account Of his native land un-
der Tito, the more effective
since it avoids the Marxist-
feminist jargon to which Yugo-
slavia's leaders still cling.
Mr.. Adamic, who had nearly
completed the book before his
mysterious death last fall. tells
of his second Homecoming" in
Evening star., 1952-05-25

spy for the Kremlin. The hero
is threatened with a vicious
smear attack II he tells what he
knows.
Naturally, it all comes out all
right in the end. When last
heard Of, the rocket was soar
ing moonward. The book can
finally be laid down with rea-
sonable assurance that the Star
Spangled Banner in triumph
shall wave DER the land Of the
free and the home Of the brave.
The Siberian Fiosco
BY Clarence A. Manning. (Li-
brGry Publishers; $3.75.J
A reappraisal of the Ameri-
can military Intervention in
Siberia in 1918 and the reasons
for its failure. -B. F.
Evening star., 1952-05-25

to some COM
pulSion to-
ward critical
caution. Call
1t what 1t is
IA superla-
tive novel. a
great piece Of
n q rr q tiv e
writing.
The story
covers 10 0
years in the
life of q small
s o u he rn
town. It is q
m Y t b tca !
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Putnam; 81.

1t would be craven and unjust
to use pale terms to describe this
novel for fear Of bestowing un-
qualified praise, in difference
Evening star., 1952-05-25

could explain the meaning of the Hiss
Case and of Communism, he had to
explain himself. WITNESS is that expla-
nation. In this book you meet man
who does not hesitate to bear witness
first Of all against himself, disclosing
facts that men commonly conceal. In
no other way could he bear witness
against the Communist conspiracy
which threatens all.
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Here begins
one Of the greet books
Of your lifetime
FOREWORD IN THE FORM
OF A LETTER TO MY CHILDREN

Beloved Children,
am sitting in the kitchen Of the little house Medfed second
farm which cut of by the ridge and quarter mile the fields
from home place. where you am writing book In it am
speaking you But also speaking the world To both
accounting.
terrible book 1t terrible in what tells about any,
thing terrible in what tells about the world in which you
live 1t about what the world calls the Hiss Chambers Case
more simply the Hiss Case about spy All the props of
espionage theoegn agents. household traitors stolen
documents mcro6m, furtve meetings hdeaway phony
names. an inormer, investigations trials official Justice
But the Hiss Case only this it would not be worth my
in the sad files Of the police another crime drama which the props
would be mistaken for the play a many people have consistently
mistaken tem 1t would not be what alone gave meaning what
the of men and inncvey sensed be- often with
out quite knowing why 1t would not be what the very beginning
was moved to call it: "a tragedy of history
For than human tragedy Much than Ager Hiss
Whitaker Chambers trial in the trials of Age Hiss Two
faiths trial Human societies. like human beings live by faith
and die when faith dies At the Hiss Case the question
whether this sick society," which call Western civilization could
in its extremity still up whose faith in great that
he would voluntarily abandon those things which hold good
including e to defend it. At the question whether this
mans faith could prevail against whose equal faith that
this society sick beyond saving and that mercy itself pleads for its
swift extinction and replacement by another At issue the ques
don whether in the desperately divided society," there still remained
the will recognize the issues time Offset the immense rally Of
public power to distort and pervert the facts.
At heart the Great Case this critical conflict of fah that
Evening star., 1952-05-25

When the Nazi armies
marched into Kharkov in 1943,
they found q ready-made
blacklist drawn up for them.
Evening star., 1952-05-25

history Of the partisan struggle
and biography Of its leader.
The Yugoslavs. he says. don't
want to be pushed around by
anybody, q characteristic which
explains both their defiance Of
Russia and the Cominform in
1948 and their shooting down Of
American airplanes in 1916.
Much of Mr.. Adamic's ma
terial can be challenged. both as
to fact and Interpretation. But
there can be very little doubt
that it represents the way Tito
and other Yugoslav leaders feel
about many things important to
all Of us in the world today.
The New Man in Soviet
Psychology
BY Raymond A. Bauer. fHar-
UGrd;; 81
A scholarly study OF the
changing conception Of man in
Soviet psychology as a reflection
Of changing theological pressures
in the Soviet government.
Evening star., 1952-12-02

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