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The Century of Total War
BY Raymond Aron. Doubleday: So
Reviewed by Belmont Fories

to bolster our strength against
our former ally, the Soviet
Union.
Writing as q Frenchman for
Frenchmen,, M. Aron Is not
ashamed to be pro-American.
though he has few illusions
about us. His analysis Of the
intellectual basis Of commu-
nism is a devastating one. And
he knows that Europe is free
now and can remain free only
with American help.
What of the future?
The object Of the West is
and must be to win the linn
tied war in order not to have
to wage the total one" he says
to his disheartened country
men. Courage and faith count
as much as material resources.
The will to win will not elm
mate the perils that are to be
our daily lot for years, but 1t
can give US a better chance OF
overcoming them"
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Mohoroni

Mohoroni
BY Brinda, Maharani Of Ka-
purthala.
(E. P. Dutton; $500
This Hindu princess has a
story to tell. without question.
Bethrothed at the age Of Z
to the heir of a wealthy In
dian state, she was brought up
in luxurious seclusion by her
prospective father-in-law. A
French governess convinced
the potentate that Brinda's
education should include a
stay in France. Thus began a
division Of loyalties that was to
strain her whole life.
In pre-World War I Paris,
Brinda had the time Of her life.
She fell in love with a hand
some young Frenchman. It was.
of course, impossible, and in due
course, she returned to India
at the age of II. to marry the
unloved maharajah. From the
beginning they were unhappy.
Palace intrigues, her father-in-
laws hostility, her failure to
bear a son contributed to the
deterioration of her marriage.
Nor did her frequent excur-
sions to Europe, where she re-
sumed acquaintance with the
international set, help. Ulti-
mately. her husband took an
other wife who, it was hoped
would produce an heir.
Unfortunately for the in
terest of her story, the Maha-
rani is no writer. She does not
observe carefully. She has no
eye for personality. She wastes
too much time protesting her
own good intentions in the
endless quarrels with her faith
er-in-law. With a little more
care, she could have produced
a really memorable account of
a kind Of life that, in spite Of
India's independence, still goes
on in some areas.
M. Meg.
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japanese to be an aggregate OF
separate, distinct and different
individuals. Japan is thought
to be a homogeneous entity -.
a superindividual. -. d.. We should
think about the fact that the
Japanese government is not
constituted as an instrument
to serve the Japanese people.
Instead the Japanese people
are considered instruments to
serve the Japanese govern
ment. The popular rights Of
the Japanese people are sub
ordinated to the nationalistic
institution epitomized in the
regality of the emperor"
This basic concept, DR.. Mo-
loney finds, stands mistaken
by a few years Of Western oc-
cupation bent on democratic
cation"
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Mystery

Evil in the House. BY Elbur
Ford. civilian Morrow &
Co.; $2.75)
PyschiatriStS would have had
a field day with Constance
Kent. key figure in the cele-
brated murder of a small boy
100 years ago. Was she sim
ply a psychopath without or
had she inherited her mothers
arrangement? The author,
writing under O pSeudonym.
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Young Italian Mother Writes
Book on Joys Of Maternity
Child With a Flower
BY Elda Bossi. fMacmtlan;; $500


This Is q fervent outpouring
on the joys Of maternity by q
young italian mother who
makes no secret Of the fact
that she regards her first
born as a miracle. Her daugh-
ter's first smile, first sunbeam.
first step are all rapturously
recorded. Parents everywhere
rightfully regard these events
as marvels, but not being Latin
hesitate to say so. Signora
BoSsi does not.
Her most appreciative read
ers will be I think, women,
preferably mothers. A mere
man might feel uneasy in the
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develops, both possibilities.
Constance, some authorities
alleged, was innocent but the
author never comedies that for
a moment. She makes Con-
stance a thoroughly unattrac-
tive girl who is most convinc-
ing when welding her fathers
razor and least convincing in
the religious phase leading to
her confession.
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normal life, Jean Evans
but often failing. often collid-
ing with the law. None was
subnormal mentally and yet
none could attain his highest
potential.
The biographies are factual.
Miss Evans wrote them from
the records Of various welfare
and law-enforcement agencies.
from talks with those who had
contacts with these men and
from hearing exhaustive conf
dences from the subjects them
selves. Names and places have
been disguised to spare all
concerned.
Adolescent lowbreoker
There was the one the au-
thor calls Johnny Rocco.
Johnny came from a slum, one
OF a large half-starved family.
He was an adolescent law
breaker. in and out Of reform
schools. He had q good
enough mind and yet could
not master things like spelling
and he got nowhere in school.
The heartening fact is that he
did make at least a partial
adjustment. After he was Is
there were no more arrests.
When we leave him at IS, he
has a wife and two children,
a modest home, a job and is
studying at a special school,
trying to overcome his handi-
caps.
William Miller was less
hopeful. A product of orphan
ages. he was a thief from boy
hood. He was in jails, later in
penitentiaries. He was blind,
then recovered his sight mi
raculouSly. He had an aston
fishing way with soil, a great
gift for growing things, food
or flowers. He tried to live in
the country many times but
something always happened
he could never quite reform.
There was. finally, Martin
Beardson, from a cultured
family. brilliant to a point, well
read. but tortured by a homo
sexual mpulsion that
thwarted his life.
The external circumstances
of these men are, of course,
less important than their inner
conflicts. which it is impossible
to go into in a brief review.
Miss Evans has turned a psy-
chic X-ray on their longings
and Illustrations. And yet she
has avoided the jargon and the
glib conclusions of psychoan-
alysis. She has, in fact, in
truded herself very little, pre-
ferring to let the evidence
speak for itself. It was her
wish, she explains. mot to pre-
sent cases. but to depict
human beings" This she has
done with the skill of a good
novelist. &C. B. ],
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up that they can hardly
squeeze out enough human
feeling to moisten the little
bits Of paper. They don't like
themselves very much"
Patience seems to play a
small part here. The mother
is too exuberantly alive for
that. too busy fostering an at
titude Of honesty. optimism
and cordially in her child.
Much Of the advice she gives
could be taken to heart by
older readers. Surely is it never
too late to awaken the pleas
ure in little things that is at
the root Of her training. 1t is
always good to hear the Carl
baldi stopped his horse to listen
to a nightingale.-M. Meg.
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Great versatility in men is
always a little under suspi-
cion," Lord Justice Birkett
writes in his chapter in this
book. He adds, But Sir Wins
ton Churchill is a law unto
himself in this as in so many
matters. He stands out
from his contemporaries as a
great and resplendent figure
with none to rival him in his
many-SidedneSs."
Most of the SO contributors
to this book have presented a
different facet of the great
man. That is testimony to his
many-sidedneSs if any is
needed.
He is discussed as a parlia-
mentarian, an orator, jour-
nalist, a biographer and his
torian, a conversationalist, an
artist, a broadcaster, a phi
loSopher, an airman. There is
a chapter on Churchill as an
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Reading and Writing
Book Manufacturers Change Minds,
Indorse Copyright Convention
BY Mary McGrory

the outbreak of the Soviet
uprising, from the Crimea in
a British ship. They came to
Rome, where their son was
born and where in true "Tova-
rich" style. they set up a
clearinghouse, which was
patroniZed by Americans at
tending the American Acad-
envy in Rome. Among those
present and talking about
America to the child of the
house, Mr.. Thornton Wilder.
Young Master Fersen began
his education at a French en-
bassy school. He later attend
ed an Italian high school and
the University of Rome. He
studied chemistry for five years.
At 81 he started writing. He
had been drafted into the
Italian Army Che was at the
time an Italian citizen. but
did not serve because of ILL
ness. During his convalescence
he wrote several pieces of fic-
ton which were published in
Italian newspapers.
With the liberation of Rome
came many a CT who had
boarded with the Fersens.
They were very kind to the
family, giving them their own
rations. getting relatives in
America to send them more.
In 1916 Mr.. Fersen met an
American Red Cross worker,
married her, came to America
with her and settled down in
Atlanta, Ga, his second IA
vorite city in the world. For
two happy years he wrote a
weekly column for a Decatur
Ca paper. After his divorce
he came to Washington. He
now teaches Russian at the
Georgetown Institute of Lam
guages and has become an
American citizen.
Mr.. Fersen, a tall. long
jawed young man. dropped
into The Star and after we
got all the international strains
sorted out we asked how come
he wrote "Tombolo."
A FoctuoI Theme
That, too, had an interna-
tional history. An American
publisher in Rome, staying at
the family boarding house now
run by his grandmother, was
shown clippings of his weekly
column. Publisher asked him
how he'd like to try a book,
and he promptly sat down and
wrote a kind of War and
Peace" Of derelicts in an Ital-
ian marsh. The publishers cut
it way down, brought it out
several weeks ago.
Now he's writing a second
novel, and even that isn't going
to be about himself. This one
will be a story biased on fact,
as was the first of Gen.
Vlasov's Soviet Army, which
went over to the Nazis and
after Yalta was delivered back
to the Russians. 1t will have
plenty of action and also "in-
ternal conflict that ruins
people"
That's the Russian in me-"
says Mr.. Fersen.
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Often, on Sundays when
there is considered to be no
new book sufficiently outstand-
ing, the New York Times Book
Review runs on it's cover page
an essay, frequently by an emf
nent novelist or critic. on some
phase of literature. Fifty
eight of these original papers
find book form in this collec-
.tion. There Is an essay by w.
H. Auden on THE World that
Books Have Made" one by
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comm enta-
tors, in this
brillia n t
study. World
w ar I s e t
of a chain
reaction Of
v l ole n c e
whose end is
AOt III SleII.
Total war
is fought to
sh the
enemy. But
he re q r e
ways Of con-
nllprinQ SAWS
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Churchill by His Contemporaries
Edited by Charles Fade (Simon d. SchuSter; S6J
Reviewed BY Froncis DouoIos

Ally in War by Gen. Eisen-
hover. from his book. Cru
SADIE in Europe" Another on
Churchill as a Guest" from
Mrs. Roosevelt's This I Re-
member" president Roosevelt
had to catch up on his sleep
after Mr.. Churchill left)
There is also section-ex-
cerpts from Hitler's rantings
on Churchill the Hated En-
envy"
Other chapters are on Sir
Winston in relation to the
army, the navy, science. inter-
national affairs. tne LII pre-,
Russia and France.
In the final chapter A. L.
RoWse. the historian. says of
Sir Winston, he sums up the
whole first half of our century
as not other salesman does"
There are few in any half CEN
tury of whom that could be
said.
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ne hoy ROOT
BY Robert Romans.
(E. P. Dutton;. 49,

49, - ~11NfS1 w"
Robert Romans, an English
doctor, has here told a story
about a supposedly miraculous
discovery in an Italian hill
town during the Middle Ages.
The townspeople are beside
themselves with joy when old
Biagio digs up an object that
must be the foot of st. Ste
phen. When Legione is cured
on the spot. the parish priest
feels he needs no further con-
f1rmation. Only Friar Giaco-
mino. fresh from missionary
work among the Saracens of
Sicily, demurs.
What follows is the usual
conflict between faith" and
reason" Giacomino. with his
knowledge of pagan statuary,
calls veneration of the foot a
blasphemy. But the townspeo-
Pile, united as never before in
the construction Of a proper
shrine. ignore his warnings,
gradually come to hate him
for trying to thwart the spirit
ual and temporal benefits the
foot has promised them. With
the bishops arrival. their fear
and resentment boil over into
violence of tragic consequences.
DR.. Romans has constructed
the theological argume ntS
carefully, arranged his plot
neatly. But the whole tale has
a curiously unconvincing air.
Can this be Italy, in the Mid
die Ages. or at any other time
for that matter? Did Italians
then speak of chaps" and Of
things being awkward" And
if they considered things as
diSpassionately as depicted
here, then they have changed
a great deal in the past CEN
turtles. Set in Sussex, The
Holy Foot" might have been
an instructive little fable. Set
in Sant'Antonio, it Is just an
Anglo-Saxon view of Italy.
with color and sound effects
noticeably missing.-M. MEG.
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n o t w / t n
sitting but
with culti-
walton. She
is teaching
the baby to
love herself
so she will
h a We love
left over for
o t h e r 8.
Those who
are poor in
love collect
S t a m ps:
their hearts
orn cn drind
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d OOy dHO
youth tn e
son Of Brit
ish parents.
He returned
for a look
see at the
c h a n g e S
81 ce the
departure of
the British
Raj. And he
went also as
a naturalist
with a Spe-
cial interest
in SIN Ill
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QuerinR. says haSmona Afoh'
NJ. Aron. that transform vic
tory into defeat. A more mod
crate policy in World War II
might have spared us the ne
cessity Of rebuilding the Ger
many and Japan we destroyed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-28

Arthur Mizener on What
Makes Books Great" and a
piece by E. M. Forster on his
personal library. what books it
contains and why. There are
essays by Sean O'Casey. Eliza
beth Bowen, Lloyd Franken-
berg, Ivor Brown, Frank
O'Connor, Stephen Spender
and many others on as many
literary topics. The an
thology contains much that Is
stimulating and informative.
&C. B. j.
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Reviewed by Co
A problem as new as today
and as old as the merger Of
ancient races on the Mediter-
ranean. the plight of the per-
son Of mixed blood, is dealt
with sensitively in this novel
Of contemporary India.
The constant awareness that
he Is an Anglo Indian-with
two such diverse and incom-
patible civilizations pulling at
him-is not the only factor in
the maladjustment of Miss
Godden's character, Leonard
Chase. But it is obviously the
. main element that disturbs
and distortS him as he lives
on in the great Indian city
where he was born.
The Anglo Indions
Despite what Kipling once
said, East and West do meet
and often in such mixtures of
blood. In the course of explor-
ing the strange case of Chase,
who develops into what might
be called a psychopathic per-
sonality. this perceptive nov
eliSt brings into focus much
OF the color and movement Of
the unnamed city. The huge
city might well be Calcutta,
where Miss Golden lives.
A gifted family, those God
denS. Jon is the eldest Of four
sisters. Of whom the second is
Runner Golden. a novelist also
distinguished for her distiric-
tive. often poetic writing.
THE City and the Wave"
moves in its honey detail of
lower middle-class life with
deceptive simplicity. 1t builds
gradually, never too lengthily.
into a sweeping climax.
Deoth Of q Kitten
We meet this Len Chase as
he returns to his lonely top
floor apartment one night
from his drab job in the Office
Of an importing firm. He is
o bachelor nearing 40. He is
upset when the stray kitten
he took in several weeks ago
fails to meet him at the door.
He Is saddened to learn that
the kitten lost its footing on
a window ledge and fell to its
death. Len is an unhappy
man. Well educated by the
JeSuitS at a college where he
studied for a time to be a
priest, he has found no suit
able niche in the sprawling
city. His job is far below his
capacities, but he cannot
seem to better himself. His
hobby is astronomy and he
spends hours in the GREATNESS
evenings at the small telescope
he inherited. He has turned
away from the faith in which
he grew up and he hates the
city, though he never musters
the courage to leave it, and
he broods on poverty, suffer-
ing and disease, on the mil
lions who live out their lives
in India unwanted and miser-
able.
A New KitteR
When, on a night of tor
rental rain. a Eurasian girl
Of Is who has run away from
a mean guardian-aunt, follows
him home, Len scoldingly
takes her in and feeds her,
just as he did the kitten.
He has a gentle, kindly streak
beneath his Illustrations and
hatreds. Marie stays on, and
Len. stirred by vestiges of his
religion, is impelled to marry
her. When she becomes preg-
nant. he is furious. What,
another life to suffer in this
teeming horde! Already there
are far too many people, he
shouts. But there is nothing
he can do. His friend on a
lower floor. an astrologist, tells
him the city is about to be
struck by a disaster. Lens
mind rejects such nonsense,
but in time, as he broods, he
comes to accept it. He de-
cides that the city is to be
destroyed by a tidal wave and
he becomes obsessed with the
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Three Men

are NlQ III
S u h alb
sorbing de-
tail were ILL
adjusted to
the stresses
Of Twin G,
e ach tor
mented by
Ills OWN ScL
of demons,
each trying
h a r d t o
a c h / e v e
W h a t Is
C allie d q
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Pattern of the Tiger
BY Stanwell Fletcher.
little, Brot0n, So

Reviewed by Ann CottreII Free
In 1861, Mr.. Fletcher re-
turned after many years away
to the Indian-Pakistan sub
continent, where he lived as
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In wars, as with fashionable
materials. there Is q critical
mass, says M. Aron, one OF
Frances foremost political
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SELL YOUR WRITING
FOR CASH!

Idont teach writing, but II you can write short
paragraphs and filters show you what to " rite;
how to submit it to editors Who buy from be-
ginners. Lots Of small checks in hurry bring
cash that adds up quickly. No tedious study.
Write to sell-first week. Free facts. Send name.
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The Universal Copyright
Convention has legions of il
lustrious advocates, at whose
head stands President Eisen-
hover. It got its biggest push,
though, from erstwhile diehard
opposition-the Book Manu-
facturers' Institute-which I'M
derwent a dramatic change of
heart while congressional hear
ings were in progress.
The BMI has hitherto bitter
ly fought convention adoption
because it means modification
of the manufacturing clause,
which requires that all books
written in English and pub
lished in America must be
printed here. But in a wire
sent to the House Judiciary
Committee the Board of Direc-
tors announced they had come
around to a position long since
taken by leaders in the publish
ing world, authors, composers
and scholars.
Protection Rights
1--WE are prepared" said the
telegram. Ito give up the
protection afforded us by the
manufacturing clause because
we share to the fullest the de-
sire to make American books
as useful to this country abroad
as possible and to uphold the
reputation of the United States
In the protection of the rights
OF all authors, composers, art
lists. We hope for an expansion
Of the sale Of American books
abroad that will more than
offset any loss we may suffer
from the modification of the
manufacturing clause"
Fittingly enough, the tele-
gram was read to the COM
mittee by Frederic G. Melcher,
venerable publisher of Pub
fishers Weekly, who has de-
voted q lifetime to the enact
ment Of a recent copyright
law. In order to acquaint the
representatives with the we'll
timed BMI switch, he had to
interrupt a witness Of the only
other opposing group, the
printing trades.
1t was a big moment in the
long history of the fight to
bring the United States into
the family Of nations on copy
right questions. Convention
partisans hope it means a new
era in copyright legislation.
Nicholas Fersen
Contrary to an unwritten
but iron law of the book world,
Nicholas FerSen. did not, in
his first novel c'Tombolo"D,
write the story Of his own life.
Nobody would have blamed
him If he had. His background
has a nice, if dizzying, blend
of international influences
that would surely have tempted
a less firm character.
He is, to begin with, a
descendant of Axel Fersen,
the Swedish count at the court
of Marie Antoinette. Then
his parents, Russians, fed at
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storm, when he Is certain
doom is striking. his son is
born.
The birth is a catharsts. Len
shakes off his insanity; his
generous self is restored. This
is not too plausible. The
character of Len is not fully
realized. Even so. his confu-
sion and cropping, his fumbling
efforts to find a firm footing
somewhere, always are inter-
esting. and his frenzied search
kindles sympathy. And Miss
Golden writes unfailingly we'll.
Three Men
BY Jean Evans. (Knopt;: $3.75J
This remarkable study is
subtitled IAN Experiment in
the Biography of Emotions"
The three men whose stories
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BY Thomas s. Arbuthnot.
Morton; $685.
Reviewed by
Fronk SortwelI, Jr.
Twenty-seven years ago, in
the golden days of the Afri-
can hunter" DR.. Arbuthnot,
retired dean of the medical
school at the University of
Pittsburgh, set out with two
young companions on an Afri-
can safari.
This book is an account of
their adventures in such &C
tivities as photogra p hing
wounded lions charging cam
eraman. The doctors sur
gical skill and tickle of humor
well represented in the book
both were needed before the
safari ended.
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Highiights of Modern Literature:
Essays From the New York Times Book Review
Edited by Francis Brown.
Ia Mentor Book the Mem American LibrQrN SO cenSD
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African Hunt

BY Thomas s. Arbuthnot.
Morton: $685.
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Books in Review
Problem Of Mixed Blood in India
Theme of Highly Symbolic Novel
The City and the Wave
BY Jon Golden. fRtnehart;; 49,

Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-04-30

TOLEDO-0blates of ST. Fran
els de Sales will open high school
for boys in Toledo with freshmen
and sophomores to be admitted in
September, 1855. A campaign will
be conducted in June, seeking
S75O,00 in cash and 30-month
pledges. A successful drive will
permit ground breaking in Septem-
Der.