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Evening star., 1954-04-25
The Final Secret of Pearl Horbor
BY Robert A. Theobald. (Devin-Adair; $500
Reviewed by Rehord FrykIund

foreign policy before Pearl
Harbor can more simply and
logically be explained as a
firm stand against aggression.
And the fleet was not an i'm
portant enough target to Off
set the drawback to Japan Of
arouSing and uniting the Unit
ed States.
More thorough histories of
Pearl Harbor, such as the
undeclared war by LANCER and
Gleason, give solid evidence it
was a Japanese blunder, not
a diabolical Rooseveltian plot
which brought japanese bomb
ers to Pearl Harbor.
But the admiral does con-
vince his readers that the lack
of warning to Gen. Short and
Admiral Kimmel was, if not a
plot, certainly a bad error. BY
December 6 it was obvious to
Washington that war was
virtually inevitable (intercept-
ed, decoded Japanese messages
to and from Washington pro-
vided the evidence.)
The President and his top
most advisers. however. spent
those final hours arguing how
to foreStall a Japanese attack
on some Southeast Asian OBJ
jective. That, they did not
consider the possibility of a
raid on Pearl Harbor is dis
graceful negligence. And their
subsequent blame of the Pearl
Harbor commanders was un-
just.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
A 14ol Edition

"The Florentine Fiordi
Virtu," a charming book that
should appeal to bibliophiles
and also to all who would be
virtuous, is available now at
the Library of Congress. A
best-Seller of it's time, this
medieval manual on exem-
plary conduct went through
66 printings between 1471 and
1900. Lost for many years, the
1491 edition turned up in
Barcelona. It has been trans
lated by Italian-born Mich
olas Fersen, author of TOM
bolo," and so beautifully
printed and designed by Les
sing Rosenwald that it was
chosen as one of the SO books
of the year by the American
Institute of Graphic Arts.
Send $2.75 to the Librarian of
Congress for a copy.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

area.
Hardy, reviving the ancient
Anglo-Saxon region of Wessex
in southern England, made his
characters seem part of this
countryside and the country
side a part Of them. More
currently, Faulkner created
Yoknapatawpha County in
Mississippi, and he indoc-
trinated his readers so well in
its looks and ways that the
people in his books are insep-
arabic from 1t.
In the Tradition
Shelby Foote is in the tradi-
ton, though he does not try
to write like Faulkner-fortu-
nately-or like any one except
himself. When he published
Shiloh" certain readers, in
cluding some who review
books, did not seem to realize
that the Civil War battle it
self was the hero Cor the viii
lain) Of the story. They took
the author to task for not fully
exposing his human charac-
ters.
There is something Of this
plan in Jordan County,"
Within the novel he has writ
ten a series Of stories and
sketches about unrelated char
acters. each a separate mar
rative, but all tied to the
Evening star., 1954-04-25

Using a wonderful hereafter?
Quite the contrary, Cave taught
DEATH /was oblivion; there was
no survival. This was the cen
tral doctrine which Cavities ac-
cepted. There was vague talk
of an ethical system which the
narrator worked out with Cave,
but nothing of this is ex-
planned.
To credit "Cavesword" with
supplanting Christianity may
be satire, but what the new
faith offers is so completely
negative that you simply can't
believe any substantial num-
ber would ever have embraced
it. So satire merges with alb
surdity.
This is not to imply that the
novel is not readable. Mr.. vi
dal, as readers Of his other
novels know, writes extremely
well. There are many amusing
passages. The story has a sur
face brillance. But 1t is not
likely to be remembered long.
&C. B. j.
Title Chosen: Senator Tom
Connally, completing his
memoirs with Alfred Stein
berg, has found a name for
them: MY Name Is Tom
Connally."
Asked If the book would be
outspoken. the old Senator
shook his head: IT amt
jumpin' on anybody real hard.
Not fair-in a book"
Evening star., 1954-04-25
BY William Michelfelder. Bobbs- s-MerriI: $3.50 J

10 o-M q . CCL, 9O.VU1
God are those who are grad
yates of human love-"
And human love is offered
to Andrew in the person of
Margie Butler. a liSsome, lone
some nurse, who for him
brushes aside her parochial-
school scruples with nary a
backward glance. Together,
and in black disgrace, they
flee the pious world of Provi-
dence Hospital, or as the COM
passionate priest, Father Kess-
lar pets it. "the holy Catholic
bullies and their SNUG idola-
tries
But neither in fight nor in
passion is there rest for An
drew. The author moves be-
tween the outcasts and the
casters out. And among the
staff of Providence all out
wardly at least worshiping God
with all their might. spiritual
i'll health can be diagnosed.
Mr.. Michelfelder spares not
the hypocrites or the whited
SepulchreS. He is. incidentally,
despite the somberness of his
theme and the poignancy of
the story, very witty writer.
His book has the mark of in
tegrity, conviction that Our
Fathers house has many man
sions, the doors must be kept
open by the faithful at all
times. M. Meg.
The Generous Heart
BY Kenneth Fearing.
(HGrcourt, Brace; $3.)
A tough, faSt-moving novel
about some very tough people
engaged in some high-powered
blackmail under the guiSe of
philantrophy. It's not really
a murder story, unless you call
a hit-and-run accident mur-
der. but it has the suspense of
that breed, plus the dividend
of sharp dialogue and sharp
Characterization. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

when the former was a young
State Senator from Dutchess
County. and the latter was
covering the State Legislature.
The association was broken
only by the death of Howe IS
years later.
Much of the recital Of the
events of that quarter Of a
century is familiar because the
32d President has not lacked
for biographers. Not so much
is known, however. of the
dogged persistence with which
Howe pursued his goal, even
when the polio attack that
crippled Roosevelt threatened
to doom him to a life Of help
less inactivity.
This is the story that Miss
Stiles tells.
It leaves the reader wonder
ing just how much the course
of history was influenced by
the faith of one man.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
BY Gore Vidal. (Dutton; $3.50.)

Satire may be highly imag-
inative. and yet.' to be effec-
tive, it must be anchored, some
where under the surface, to
realty. Evelyn Waugh's satires
have been plausible. One of
his best, "The Loved One" an
Interpretation of Hollywood
funerals, was hardly exagger-
ated. What made George Or
wells "1948" the classic it has
become was the terrifying
truth on which it was based.
Any too-powerful government
could grow into what he de-
Scribed.
This is just where the gifted
young Gore Vidal fails with
this satire, it seems to me
it lacks even an element of
credibility.
In Messiah" an old man,
long an exile in Egypt, de-
scribes his leading role, half a
century before. in the sale"
OF one John Cave to America
and to most of the world as
the leader of a new religious
cult. Cave was an ordinary
man, not well educated, not a
thinker or planner. He had one
supreme talent: a hypnotic
presence. He could win any
audience, on TV as effectively
as in person. But what was his
philosophy? He removed the
fear Of death-he made death
seem more desirable than life,
encouraging suicide. BY prom
Evening star., 1954-04-25

In time she became his
faithful helper and his first
biographer. But the first meet
ing between Leila Stiles, au-
thor of "The Man Behind
Roosevelt" and Louis McHenry
Howe, the subject Of her book.
was anything but promising.
1t was a Democratic head
quarters in New York in 1928.
She thought FDR's shadow
was the most curious-looking
little man she had ever seen.
On his part, she says HE
thought I was just one of
those light-headed southern
girls, just there for the ride"
She could never deny her
Southern background. Her
speech is redolent Of her ma
tive Kentucky. Nor could she
Evening star., 1954-04-25

county he calls Jordan and
the town he names Bistol, in
the Mississippi Delta country.
And yet the method here Is
somewhat different. The char
acters and their adventures
have too much of the general,
the universal for Jordan
County" to be called strictly a
regional novel. On the other
hand, always, through their
varied experiences in different
.eras. you are conscious Of the
great river. the levee the
town below it, the way the
country looks at different sea-
sons, the mores of the peo-
Pile. Thus it seems to me that
this is not so much a novel of
place as Shiloh" was of an
event, though this is not said
in disparagement of Jordan
County," which, I feel con-
fident, denotes a further
growth in Mr.. Foote'S stature
as novelist.
1850 Bock to 1877
The stories start with q con-
temporary sketch of the re-
turn of a deranged veteran to
his home town and move
backward in time, until the
last takes place in 1897.
The longest and most de-
veloped story, really a novel,
is Child by Fever" a dra-
matte. fully realized account
of the slow disintegration of a
proud, wealthy family through
TASTY, ill-considered mar
riages..
There are briefer stories of
a colored horn player who is
forced into a role he never
wanted, that of killer; of a
spoiled girl of the '20s and her
marriage; of an old colored
mans memory of what hap
pened after the fall of Vicks-
burg; of a Civil War episode:
Of an Indians trial by the
conquerors, Spaniards. The
story of the horn player, ride
Out" appeared in a recent
collection, Short Novels"
edited by Mary Louise Aswell.
Jordan County" is a fine
achievement.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
You'll Not Forqet
This Doctors Tale
Of Whale Fishinq
OF Whales and Men
BY r. B. Robertson.

BY r. B. Robertson.
(Alfred A. Knopt; $4.5OJ
Other seamen look down on
whaling-men, calling them be-
cause of their Sinking, ardu-
Gus, lonely profession, North
Sea Cinnamon" Whaling
ship owners treat them as ex-
pendables. and send them a
form letter and a cheap alarm
clock after IS years service.
r. B. Robertson, a Scots psy-
chiatrist who served as doctor
to an 8 months British whal-
ing expedition in 1851 de-
cided they were psychopaths in
the best sense of the word
that is to say, men with suf-
fering minds"
Shades of Moby Dick? Yes,
indeed, and wonderful, too.
DR.. Robertson read Melville's
classic and SO had many of his
humblest shipmateS. And he
found a Norwegian fireman.
greaser reading IbSen. Whale
men are different. DR.. Robert
son plainly thinks that radar
and pressure cookers have not
taken the romance out of
whaling. It's a cinch he'll win
you to his point of view. His
book is an absolute treat,
something as different as
whaling itself. The doctor
commands a lucid, humorous
style and a vivid gift of de-
scription sure to enthrall his
stay-at-home readers.
DR.. Robertson makes you
feel what life must have been
like on the huge and hideous
factory ship where the biggest
game in the world was pro-
cessed amid a dangerous con-
fusion and bedlam in which
every f1enSer (f1ayer) and
lemmers (butcher) has an ex-
acting job. He operated on a
man with smashed legs in
rolling seas. He Joined in the
ribald discussions about the
whales sex life in the ward
room, watched the epic Christ
mas Day brawl among the Nor
wegian technicians and British
sailors who made up the crew.
Why do men go whaling?
Because they like to wander
and want the excuse of the
biggest game? Because they
identify with the whale, the
misf1t and the outcast Of the
animal kingdom. DR.. Robert
son doesn't know for sure.
But you'll be awfully glad he
was interested enough to go
along and try to find out.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

On the night Of his election
in 1882. Franklin d. Roosevelt
said in a broadcast that he had
two men to thank for the
presidency - Louis McHenry
Howe and James A. Farley.
The listeners knew all about
the vote-corralling job that
had been done by Jim Farley
as chairman of the Democratic
National Committee; COM
paratively few recognized the
other name.
Now, 18 years after the
death of gnomish Louie"
Howe, a former White House
associate tells the story of the
wispy newsman who believed
his friend Roosevelt was des-
tined for greatness, and
worked for two decades to
make a President Of his hero.
The Roosevelt Howe friend
ship started in Albany in 1911.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Reading and Writing
LeIo Stiles Terrific Little Guy Turned
Out to Be q Real President Maker
By Mory McGrory


advance any better reason for
being around AL Smith head
quarters than that she was
looking for names and stories
for her syndicated column, "A
Girls Eye View of New York"
Soon, however, she was
working full-time for Mr..
Howe. and in no time at all
began to see him as "a terrific
little guy" and "a real presi-
dent-maker." After his death
in 1888, she stayed on at the
White House, working right
through the Democratic ad-
ministrations. Last year, al
though invited to stay on by
the new team. she left to take
a job for the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, where she
is now frantically working on
the Jefferson Jackson Day
dinner.
Delighted though she is with
the attentions showered on the
new author, the exuberant.
auburn-haired Miss Stile S
never intends to write another
book. The six years she spent
on the Howe biography were
a terrible strain.
"If you've ever written a
book. dear. you'll know what I
mean. If you haven't, don't"
Modestly she says she is
only Howe's biographer by de-
fault. anyway. She kept ex-
pecting some one else to come
along and ask for the data
she had collected.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

Since the japanese bomberS
few out of the morning mist
December Z, 1941. and plas-
tered an astonishingly de-
fenseless Pearl Harbor, Amer
leans have wondered if there
weren't more to the disaster
than met the eye.
Rear Admiral Robert A.
Theobald now becomes the
spokesman of persons who
argue that Pearl Harbor was
no accident: We planned it
that way.
Or, specifically, President
Roosevelt planned it, aided by
other top officials in Wash
ington, notably Gen. Marshall,
Chief Of Staff Of the Army,
and Admiral Stark, Chief of
Naval Operations. (The two
officers deny this.)
The books thesis is this:
President Roosevelt wanted
this country to fight the Axis.
but needed an act of aggres-
sion against American terri
tory to stimulate popular sup
port for the war. So he forced
Japan to fight by fencing her
in automatically; he enticed
Japan into hitting Pearl Har-
Dor by keeping the Pacific fleet
moored there. and he directed
that war warnings be with
held from Pearl Harbor COM
manderS.
Admiral Theobald does not
make a convincing case on his
first two points. American
Evening star., 1954-04-25
A Seed Upon the Wind

This story of a lost soul
f1oundering in a desert of I'M
belief has a dazzle and depth
uncommon in any novel, let
slone a first. The Hound of
Heaven" theme is hardly new
in current fiction, but Mr..
Michelfelder approaches it
with an urgency that makes
it exciting-and shattering-
all over again.
His hero. a good doctor and
a decent young man, is also
a fallen-away Catholic, whose
particular hell is that he can
not believe what he knows is
true. Trained in a drab ortho-
dox household to exact OBJ
servance and fully instructed
in the intellectual aspects, he
has somehow lost his faith.
Or perhaps those who love
Evening star., 1954-04-25

even though
their books
are not strict
ly in Sc
quence and
m a y depict
in e ach a
different set
of charac-
ters. In time
their novels
b e C o m e
k n o W n as
regional or
i n t erpreta-
tionS of some
d i S t nctiVe
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Author in Trouble

Item about an author in
trouble comes from Italy,
where Giovanni Guareschi,
creator of the gentle, anti
communist priest, Don Ca
milo" has been sentenced to
a year in prison for charges
he made about former premier
de GaSperi in his magazine
Candida" The Italian En-
baSSy reports that the unfor-
tunate Signor Guareschi can
appeal. If unsuccessful, and
at the same time philoSophi-
cal, he may recall that some
of the worlds best literature
has been composed behind
bars.
Notice BOard: Padraic
Colum, the distinguished
Irish critic, poet and scholar.
will read from new and un-
published poems on WedneS-
day evening at $40 at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art Audi
torium. His appearance will
be sponsored by the Institute
Of Contemporary Arts. For
information call HU. 3-6181.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
More Statue Of Liberty
Stamps May Be Coming

Won Gross. Engraving and
printing techniques are dis
cussed in language which can
be comprehended by average
readers. The book will be USE
full to all students of stamp
design, professional and lay
alike.
When the narrow-gauge
Shenandoah Central Railroad
begins the second year of its
operation next month it will
put into service a railway post
Office car, and a special
cacheted cover will be pro-
vided for the occasion. Send
Is cents for each example
wanted. Address: TweetSie
Mail Service, Penn Laird, Va.
Elmer r. Long, 112 Market
street, Harrisburg, Pa, has
published his 38th annual
stamp collectors handbook on
United States stamps and cop
les will be sent on receipt Of
postal-card requests.
Life Magazine is preparing a
feature on stamps and the
National Geographic Magazine
soon will bring out a compre-
hensive story on the postal
system.
The Scent Nebraska Terri
torial commemorative, to be
placed on sale at Nebraska
City May Z, will be purple in
color. 1t was designed by
Charles R. Chickering and en-
graved by Charles A. Brooks
and John S. Edmondson.
Collectors are advised to
buy reasonable quantities Of
the Scent olive green Martin
Van Buren 1888 stamp before
it disappears from the Phila-
telic Agency list. Production
has ceased on this item.
A stamp showing the orig.
1nal, Star Spangled Banner.
flown at Fort McHenry, Balti-
more, during the battle of
September 1914, 1914, has
been suggested. The famous
flag, subject of Francis Scott
Keys poem, is on permanent
exhibition at the Arts and In
dustries Building, Smithsonian
Institution.
The week of April 26 to
May 2 has been designated
National Coin Week, with the
Washington Numismatic So
ciety taking a leading part in
its observance. All the coins
of the so United Nations are
to be on display in the New
National Museum Building
of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, Constitution avenue at
Tenth street NV, beginning
Tuesday, and coins of SWitzer-
land, not a member # u. NJ,
likewise will be shown in the
same hall. Meanwhile, another
large and valuable exhibition
of numismatic material will be
open tomorrow at the Ameri-
can Security & Trust Co.,
Pennsylvania avenue and Fif-
teenth street. NV.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
By Jones Woldo Foweett

AQQlClOual SCdGuc OF Liberty
stamps probably will be issued
before the end of 1854. The
success of the Scent red.
white and blue adhesive re-
leased April 8 has prompted
Post Office Department officers
to consider further use of the
same theme on labels for pos
tai service within the United
States. A Scent stamp is al
most certain to be authorized
shortly, and, in case the first
class mail rate is changed as
it well may be, Accent ad-
hesive would be wanted. These
issues might be one-color
productions rather than BIZ
colored. They would be en-
graved. not surface-printed.
Meanwhile, official consid-
Grafton is being given to the
proposed memorial stamp for
the late Senator Robert A.
Taft of Ohio. The long-de-
layed Gen. John j. Pershing
commemorative also has been
under discussion again. So
has the stamp projected in
memory of the pioneer woman
aeronaut, Amelia Earhart. The
famous poet. Edna st. Vim
cent Millay likewise may be
admitted to the Nations phi
latelic gallery.
Requests for a stamp in
honor Of Asa Gray. celebrated
botanist, continue to be re-
ceived. The aforementioned
commemorative for George
Eastman. camera inventor and
philanthropist. is almost sure
of approval and may be an
nounced any minute for first
day sale on the centenary Of
his birth, July IL.
An official airmail cachet
has been announced by the
Post Office Department for the
Inauguration of United Air
Lines nonstop transcontinen-
tai DC-7 service between New
York and San Francisco June
1. Send self addressed stamped
standard 6s4 size envelopes to
Postmaster, San Francisco,
with usual request for process
ing.
The Washington Press,
Newark, N. j., has published
an illustrated pamphlet en-
titled: "Your Introduction to
a Fascinating Hobby-Stamp
Collecting" by Franklin R.
Bruins, jr., curator. Philatelic
Division, Smithsonian Institu-
tion.
The National Philatelic Mu-
scum, Philadelphia, has pub
lished a handsome and valu-
able brochure on the art Of
postage stamp designing. 1t
runs to 246 pages of text and
brings together representative
articles by skilled and expert
enced writer's on the subject,
including: John EaSton, Leon
Helguera, Clarence w. Brazer,
DR.. Oswald L. Harvey, G. F. c.
Smillie, DR.. Julian Blanchard,
Edward r. Grove, Nils Stran-
dell. Solomon Altmann, James
H. Naile. James Berry, Hans
E. Gaudard, Ernest A. Kehr,
Roger Fournelle, Steven Boz
soky. Yoshitsugu Mishimi,
Robson Lowe, Bertram w. H.
Poole. A. I. Mackenzie and
David Lidman. The material
submitted by these authors
was arranged and edited by
Bernard Davis, DR.. John Free
hafer, James H. Baxter, Will
liam T. West and DIR. G. A.
Edited by Euoene MoIeskc
Evening star., 1954-04-25

Some noveliSts have such a
strong sense Of locality that
they return repeatedly to the
neighborhood they know best,
Evening star., 1954-04-25

How Much Did the Faith of One Man
Influence the Course Of History?
The Man Behind Roosevelt: The Story
OF Louis McHenry Hone
BY Leila Stiles. (The World Publishing Co.; $4.75J
Reviewed by Joseph A. Fox
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Books in Review
Place and Time Are Hero and Plot
In Shelby Foote'S New Novel
Jordan County

JoFo0n (ounty
BY Shelby Foote. dial; $3.50J
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
Evening star., 1954-04-25

Collectors are advised to
buy reasonable quantities of
the Scent olive green Martin
Van Buren 1888 stamp before
1t disappears from the Phila-
tellc Agency list. Production
has ceased on this item.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

The Scent Nebraska Terri
torial commemorative, to be
placed on sale at Nebraska
City May Z, will be purple in
color. 1t was designed by
Charles R. Chickering and en-
graved by Charles A. Brooks
and John S. Edmondson.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

Life Magazine is preparing a
feature on stamps and the
National Geographic Magazine
soon will bring out a compre-
hensive story on the postal
system.