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Names in The News
lAnd how to pronounce them.l
By Constantine Chekrezi

While the Churchill Eden con-
ferences were going on in Wash
ington, French Premier Mendes-
France decided to send a special
envoy to confer personally with
West German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer {. .. Ah-den-O OUR) !.
Either Jean Guerin de Beaumont
(Zhan Gur-EN de h-MANN)
or Alexandra Parodi tAleks-
AND-ur Pah-roh- -DEE), both
high officials of the Quai d'Orsay
(Keh de Or-SEED, the French
Foreign Office, would do.
Dutch Defense Minister Cor
nelis stat Kor-NEH- lees Staff
told parliament that the Bene-
lux nations (Beh-neh-lookS
Belgium Netherlands, Luxem-
burg) are agreed on an alterna-
tive plan for European defense.
On the former side. former Nazi
Gen. HaSS0 Won Manteuffel
(HASS-oh fon Mann-TOY-fell)
has planned a coalition instead
of an integrated army as con-
templated In EDO. In France,
two cabinet members. Robert Bu-
ron (Raw-BER Byu-RONN) and
Andre-F Francois Monteil CAM
DREH Fran-SWAH Monn-TAY)
have been read out Of Georges
Bidault's (Bee-DOHS) party.
(All rights reserved.)
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Word Come
Find 80 or more words /

FIND 81 or more words IN
p r. E T E N S E,
meaning, sham, affectation,
subterfuge." Average is "a; time
limit, 25 minutes.
Rslles Of the game-1. Words must be
acquire tour letters by the addition 81
IS, such as bats" cats" are not used
g. Only one form Of q word is used. 4.
Proper cames are not used.
Answer to FEDERAL.
fade. fare. feral. feel, fear. feed, fee,
flea, fare, freed. earl. elder. dale. dare,
read, real reel. reR. reef. alder. alec,
iade. lard. leer. leader. leaf.
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DR.. Norman Vincent Peale answers -.
Should this woman
tell her husband
she was unfaithful?
ADVERTISEMENT.

Positive Thinking-answers this
woman's questions in the new
issue of LOOK magazine. His
advice on personal problems is
now a regular feature in LOOK.
These troubled times give
rise to many doubts and fears.
So if you have something on
your mind write to DR.. Peale
about it. See how he can help
you. Get LOOK today. At all
, newsstands.
Evening star., 1954-07-01

Is Million in Fisheries

TOKYO.-About 1,500, 900 per-
sons are employed in Japan's
extensive fishing industries.
More than 400 products of the
sea are manufactured for food
purposes.
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confess to my husband? Will
God forgive met"
DR.. Norman Vincent Peale,
famous author Of The Potuer of
Evening star., 1954-07-01
ADVERTISEMENT.

81 was unfaith-
full to my hus-
band when he
was in Korea.
:. Night and
day, my con-
science harries
me. Should /
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on sculpture by Jane Love
and how to paint water colors
by DR.. Henry Olson; Wednes-
day, a general discussion on
art in Washington by The
Stars art critic, and THE
Beginnings of Art" by DR..
John Shapley, Catholic Uni
versity: Thursday, the Cor
coran Gallery's collection and
art school by Jessalee Sick
man and Mrs. Ogden Will
liams; Friday, Treasures Of
the Folger Library" by DR..
Louis Wright, and the history
of the Artists Guild. All Of
these talks are to be given at
10 and 1915 pm. each eve
ming. On Wednesday an extra
program will be given at $50
pm, Have the Intellectuals
Kept Up With Modern De-
sign?" a panel discussion from
the New York Herald Tribune
Forum.
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Mystery and Suspense
Reviewed by Miriam Gutenberg

The Case Of the Fugitive. BY
Erie Stanley Gardner:
william Morrow & Co.;
$2.75.)
A wealthy doctor is identi-
fled as a plane crash victim
and his Observation-Disclosures
wife wants Perry Mason to
help her cheat the Govern
ment of a tidy sum she thinks
is stashed away in her hus-
bands love nest. Then, she
gets arrested for murder.
That's where Mason left us.
Erudite but unnecessary legal
and scientific discussions
make an uneven plot even
BUMPER. Mason fans, how
ever. should cheer on one
score. They get a double dose
of courtroom drama, featur-
ing their hero batting the
eternally apoplectic DA.
Too Soon to Die. BY Henry
Wade. macmillan Co.;
$2.75.)
Old Col. Jerrod had a plan
to escape British death duties.
He made over the Jerrod estate
to his son, but he would have
to live Ave more years for this
gift to be tax free. Now, only
a few months from his goal,
the doctors told him he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

Ruth Mckinney first burst
upon the world as the personal
historian of her sister Eileen.
Now she has a daughter of the
same name. who seems to be a
fair copy of the original. The
new edition is also fetchingly
pretty, engagingly willful and
obviously born to be written
about by a person of Miss Nc
Kenney's marked fair for
comedy and light pathos.
Young Eileen figures in the
choicest sketches in this COL
lection about an American
family living in Brussels. Upon
hearing herself spoken to in
the accents Of Racine. Eileen
goes into language shock"
and barricades herself under
the bed. Six weeks of acting
out Red Riding Hood in two
languages Straighten that out.
Then she becomes the COM
panion of the chambermaid
Philippine on what her horri-
fed mother discovers to be,
weekly visits to Philippines
family tomb. And her 5th
birthday party, attended by
Is impeccably attired and
hammered young Belgians
turns out to be the sensation
of the kindergarten set Of
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Seriqrophs

The Arts Club is showing
through next Thursday an
exhibition by the National
Serigraph Society Of New York
City. comprising nearly 80
prints by its members, and a
series of mounts with indi-
vidual color separations and
progressive proofs of a four
color serigraph. with photo
graphs of how it is done. and
explanatory labels. A number
Of these prints have received
awards and are included in
one or more permanent mu-
scum collections.
Washington area artist Ruth
Starr Rose is represented with
GLORY Train" one of her
imaginative interpretations of
Negro spirituals. Her han
ding Of the medium is loose
and free. compared. for ex-
ample. to the precision of Rob-
ert Gwathmey, whose Top
ping Tobacco is close to his
paintings in handling and sub
ject matter.
Serigraphy lends itself to a
great variety of effects. Some
of the prints resemble ink and
wash drawings. some water
colors. or suggest characteris-
tics of still other graphic media
and combinations. A majority
of the serigraphs in the current
show are in modern idiomS, and
they represent printmakers of
national regulations. Dorr
Bothwell's Cote d'Azur." Ed
ward Landon's Dark VESSEL"
Harry Shokler's toneful. rich
Coast of Maine" James Egle-
sons appealing Mother and
Child" and Bernard Steffen'S
large print of young birds in
a nest. are among the note
worthy items in this exhibition.
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trail at a campmeeting. and
the preacher is found muir
dered.
George, still wary, obviously
takes refuge with the Calls.
Mrs. Gait, unlike other women
of Georges acquaintance is
not mean or nosy or finicky,
just plain. Mr.. Gait never says
much. although at one men,
orable point he tells George
how to be man: Enjoy the
good, stand up to the bad"
Then one terrible night
Georges dreams about the
foolkiller come true.
Miss EustiS tells Georges
story in the first person, in
his own vernacular. with only
as much wisdom as a troubled
12-year-old can muster. She
has done it with maximum art
and sympathy. Both as a
psychological study of an in
secure child and a spare tale
of small-town life a century
ago, The Fool Killer" is quiet
but sure achievement. Miss
Eustis is the author of The
Horizontal Man.
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Books in Review
First Novel Has Vivid Background
Of South Pacific Sea Fighting
The Jungle Seas
BY Arthur A. Ageton (Random House; $685.
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones
The Jungle Seas

One of the most vivid &C
counts of sea fighting in the
South Pacific to come out of
the great war flashes from the
best pages of this first novel.
Rear Admiral Ageton. who
was graduated from Annapolis
in 1923, retired from the Navy
in 1947 to devote himself to
writing. He had ,front-row
place in battles similar to those
he describes. While the author
has flctionized his history and
woven a romance into it. the
action scenes are essentially
the sort of thing that went on
constantly while our Navy and
Army were wrestling key islands
from the Japanese.
Jerry Doyle. the hero.
youthful lieutenant. who wins
two and a half stripes and
promises to sew on more be-
fore the war ends. and his
shipmates serve aboard de-
stroyers. We follow one Of
these small. sinewy ships on a
mission up the Slot" We see
her under attack from air and
surface. with the skipper hav-
ing to make instant decisions
on his own. in a way, despite
the flow of orders from higher
up-and every officer and blue
jacket with a station and a
duty.
Unfortunately the author
felt he also had to have a
love story. 1t does not come
of nearly so we'll as the fight
ing sequences. Jerry Doyle had
left Annapolis under cloud
because he had thrown over
an admiral'S daughter after
leading her to love him. He
tried to forget this affair and
immersed himself in his work
as executive officer Of the de-
stroyer Hale so completely he
hardly slept. The captain had
to order him ashore at Nou-
mea, a French island. for re-
Taxation. There Jerry met
Jeanne, a French girl, then he
did forget the Annapolis ro-
nance.
The sinking of the Hale in a
terrific battle up the Slot is a
memorable chapter. Here you
have a writer who knows every
technical aspect Of his subject
and yet has imagination
enough to put himself in the
place Of every man aboard, to
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The Nemesis OF Power, the German Army in Politics,
1918-1945
BY John Wheeler-Bennett. (St Martins Press; s12J
Reviewed BY Richod Fryklund

Because the United States
Government is now firmly COM
mitted to the speediest possible
rearmament Of Germany, it
Is an appropriate time to look
a little closer at the monster
We plan to revive.
Mr.. Wheeler Bennett has
done a superb job Of making
this examination for us. He
has described the political
Vaccinations Of the German
Officer Corps and the Cen
eral staff Corps from the end
of the First World War to the
end of the Second. 1t is a
fascinating book. a work of
scholarship without pedantry.
Coined Independent Survival
The German Officer Corps
additionally has been a state
within-a-State." 1t has been
free Of civilian political con-
troll. its members exempt even
from civil law. After World
War I the Officer Corps gained
its independent survival by
guaranteeing protection of the
civil government.
AS long as 1t stood apart
from politics it could exert
great. though amoral, infu-
ence on the government. But
the time came when general
staff officers decided to mix
directly in politics-hiring and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

wouldn't make it. Thus begins
a tale Of fraud, representation
and. inevitably. murder. The
carefully developed plot Gen.
tiers not on the identity of the
murderer, but on what Wisps
of chance or feats of detection
will uncover the hoax. Like
the authors earlier Heir
Presumptive," this new bout
with the intricacies of inherit
ance is one of the fancier
British products.
An Afternoon to Kill. BY
Shelly Smith. (Harper g.
Bros; $2.50)
A stranded traveller whites
away the hours of waiting by
listening to an old lady tell
the story of her Victorian
youth. 1t has all the elements
of the gaslight era-the stern
father, wicked stepmother,
young damsel embroiled in
loveless marriage, extra
marital intrigue and, finally,
murder. The traveller, some
what slower on the uptake
than the average reader. finally
solves the murder in time for
a tongue-in-cfleek denoue-
ment. Miss Smith. one sus-
poets. was simply having fun.
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r. Dunk & Wagnalls;; $780,
coronation Of Elizabeth II. the
duke does not subscribe to the
gloomy foreboding" that hers
may well be the last coronation
of a British ruler. If the
British monarchy" he adds,
can be said to have demon
strated one outstanding quail
ity, it has been its capacity to
adapt itself to social change.
That faculty of self-adaptation
has perhaps never been better
demonstrated than in the tur-
moil of these postwar years,
and today the royal family
holds as firm a place as ever
in the affections of the British
people"
The Dukes estimates of the
varying traits and ways of
Victoria. Edward VII, George
v and George vi are decidedly
interesting. Had his reign run
its full course, he hazards, 1T
is possible that its mood and
texture would have followed
more that of Edward VII"
Edward VII. who did not at
tain the throne until he was
SO. liked travel, good living
and congenial friends. His
son, George v, and grandson,
George vi, were more like Ed
wards mother. Queen Victoria.
in their devotion to a quiet
family life and their dislike of
pageantry and social glitter.
&C. B. j.
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prize, makes its point more
clearly. You would almost
know If you were not told that
the third-prize story. "A Game
of Catch" by Richard Wilbur.
juvenile fragment, came
from the New Yorker.
Actually there is one story
from the Saturday Evening
Post, TOO Young TO Have a
Gun" by P. H. Lowrey. and
one from Golfers, Fighter"
by James A. Maxwell. Strange
ly enough. neither is bad at
all. Fighter" is particularly
effective.
The collection marks the
appearance of new editors and
the transfer of o. Henry an
thologies to the State Univer-
sity of Iowa and its Writer'S
Workshop. &C. B. j.
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IWos on American Spy
BY Sidney F. Mashbir. Vantage; $3.75J
Reviewed by William Hines

It is unfortunate that a seri-
Gus book on the thorny prob
lem of military intelligence
should have been given such
a shoot 'em-up title as Col.
Mashbir's story has received.
This is just another case where
you can't tell a book by its
cover.
To those who know him,
Sid Mashbir is a dedicated
man who pays close attention
to some old-time precepts
which, in this cynical day,
may seem a bit obsolete. OPP
Grating in good faith. Col.
Mashbir resigned from the
Army after World War I, see
ing a clash with Japan in
evitable, in order to set up an
espionage apparatus in the
Island Empire. When he tried
to get back into the Army, he
found that the authorities had
conveniently forgotten their
promise to reinstate him.
Retired now, but still lack
ing the Regular Army COM
mission he sought for so long,
Col. Mashbir tells his story
dispassionately and interest,"
ingly. Throughout the book
there IL revealed o good-hu-
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Puperbocks

A monthly roundup OF re-
cent choice entries in the
grounded paper bound book
field.
The Caine Mutiny. BY Herman Wouk.
I [,Douol edi, a3c:i a, last the Pu-
The Wall. BY John Hersey. Pocket
Books: Soc The complete text Of
Warsaw ghetto.
Intruder in the Dust. BY William
Faulkner. tS.gnet Books: "5cD A
morality tale By the Nobel Prize
Knock on ANY Door. BY Willard Mot
ley. (Signet Books; Soc Natur-
sltStic novel of Chicago SUM
GiEI and Julie DE Carneilhan. By
Colette. tSienet Books: 25cl Two
love stories by the French favorite.
GENERAL
New World Writing. Second Mentor Sc
New world Writing. Second Mentor
i Ibrir2 .oi Both New rA Amer dcaa
an RFsI soc ., ea notable cons s1nd
porary prose poetry, and drama.
Gandhi; By Louis Fischer. "a sisnet
Key BOOK; 31c.I An original. SYM
pathetic study Of a great Indian by
a friend of India.
Basic Selections From Emerson. Edited
by Eduard c. Lindeman. "a Mentor
Book: 35c.) Essays, poems and
apothcgms from the Yankee phi
losopher.
Great ESSAYS. Edited by Houston Pc
tcrson. Pocket Books; 35cl An orig
inal anthology culled from the best
authors, although not always their
best work
How to Make q Success Of Your Mar
riaEe. BY DR.. Eustace Chesser.
New American Library; 35c.J Sane.
philosophical guidebook.
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envy patrols by inches. At
times they had to fight with
weapons taken from dead
japanese. Eventually they
were rescued, and Jerry. ap-
parently a neuropsychiatric
case, was returned to Noumea.
But it was jeanne who nursed
him back to physical and
mental health. Then Jerry
got his first command. a new
destroyer and had a fresh ad-
venture up the Slot.
, Jerry's romance is conven-
tional. The long descriptions
of his love making and of
drinking bouts at the officers
club at Noumea add little to
the book. But the scenes of
action at sea and in the jun
gle and the later account Of
an amphibious landing are
stunning. I've read nothing
better of its kind.
Admiral Ageton lives in
Washington. He wrote the
Naval Officer's Guide and has
published numerous articles
and short stories.
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Far, Far From Home
BY Ruth Mckinney (Harcourt, Brace; $275J

Brussels. and introduces into
that capital such droll Ameri-
can customs as pin the tail on
the donkey. This episode. re-
lated at the top of the au-
thor's form. is the high point
of the book.
Eileen's parents have their
language difficulties, too. most
acutely when they inadver-
tently register their little
brood in the school for the
feeble minded. Her older
brothers inevitably clash with
continental mathematics and
the ancient European dating
system. The Belgians. having
boned up on Faulkner, are pre-
pared for the worst from the
picturesque Americans. One
father tells Eileen's father:
"One does not wish ones
young daughter to hear the
obscenities, does one?" The
Americans in their turn have
to revise their notions about
Belgian love and marriage GUS
toms.
Miss McKenney's material
seems rather thin in spots. But
daughter Eileen comes through
with flying colors. l do hope
we shall hear more of her.
M. Meg.
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firing ministers and corrupting
Reichstag members.
The Officer Corps became
powerful enough politically to
help Hitler to power. in ex-
change for his promises of a
larger Wehrmacht. 1t was not
long, however. before Hitler
proved himself smarter and
nerVier than the generals; and
the generals became his sycho-
phantic prisoners, accepting
his goals and even his meth
DDS. but resenting his power
over them.
Scores of the highest rank
ing generals and field mar
shalls plotted to kill him
keeping Britain, France and
the United States informed of
the plot all the while. But
Hitler was too smart and too
lucky. He lived to die by his
own hand and bring Germany
and the Officer Corps to ruin
with him.
AS it apparently is necessary
to revive the Wehrmacht in
order to meet the Communist
threat. it is well to remember
that the same irresponsible.
amoral men who helped Hitler
are again ready to step for
ward and run a new German
army.
Perhaps Mr.. Wheeler-Ben-
nett's book will help us keep
a better eye on them this time.
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sentimentality in what might
have been sentimental tale.
The visitation. difficult at the
time, does every one good, as it
always does in popular fiction.
Miss Pilchard, under John
Quilts hooking gaze. begins to
admit a few things about her.
self. He, prodded by her curl
osity and concern begins to sit
up and take notice, particu-
larly Of a bitter young war
widow down the road.
Miss White, although she
works with familiar ingredi-
ents, is not serving up any easy
answers in her quiet and un-
pretentious novel. Not all her
characters come through
clearly. but Miss Pilchard does.
and she is the one who counts.
M. MEG.
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feel as they must have felt.
terrified and yet carrying on
in the calm tradition of the
Navy. The whole macabre
scene takes shape as you read
the pounding seas. the night
a hell of flashes and explo-
sions: the taste and touch Of
the wind, the futile measures
taken to try to save the little
ship. Then the struggle Of the
men in the sea, a few to be
saved, most of them to perish.
Jerry and an enlisted man,
Rogers. soon were sole survi-
vors of one group that es-
capped the sea. They were on
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The Spare Room
BY Nea Gardner White (The Viking Press; So

Purpose and service are
written all over the sturdy,
cheerful person of Ann Pill
chard. cheerful spinster and
town nurse of Wickham. One
morning she finds on her door,
step leading exponent of the
life is a husk" school. John
Quill Jones looks like Keats,
acts like the man who came to
dinner and is actually suffer-
ing from bad cold. The COM
bination is too much for Miss
Pilchard. secret author of a
nature-notes column. and she
takes the apathetic young
wording into her spare room
and her capacious heart.
The muff1ed clash that en-
sues between doer and sneerer
is adroitly charted by Miss
White, who never descends to
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Prize Stories, 1854: The O. Henry Awards
Selected by Paul Engle and Hansford Martin.

It is ironical that most Of
the stories reprinted in this
anthology carry out ideas so
tenuous or symbolism so vague
1t Is doubtful that the man
for whom the collection is
named would call them stories
at all. o. Henry, whatever his
literary faults-and certainly
he had them-usually had
something unmistakable to
say in everything he wrote.
Most of these stories are
from the little" magazines.
First prize went to Thomas
Mabry for 1.-The Indian Feath-
err" which appeared in the
Sewanee Review. The story is
we'll told, but it ends on a note
of obscure symbolism. Clay
Putnam's story, THE News
From Troy" awarded second
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changing their esthetic con-
cepts." He considers that their
sculpture compliments their
painting.
Whether or not one agrees
with him, his is an interesting
viewpoint. But I personally
consider that Washington has
some excellent sculptors who
are not represented in the cur
rent annual. This is one Of the
occasions when I wish l had
seen the rejected 10 works.
The GID annual will remain
through February %.
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German Artists

More than so water colors.
monoliths, drawings, etchings
and Autographs by leading
German expressionists, are on
view in Watkins Gallery,
American University campus.
through next Sunday. This
exhibition. mentioned here
briefly the Gay it opened. is a
loan from the Leasing ]. Pos
enwald collection at the Ma
tional Gallery of Art. But
with one or two exceptions
none Of these prints has been
previously shown in Wash
ington.
The German expressionists,
whose movement developed
from the French Post impress
sionists and Fauves, reached
their peak during the first
quarter of this century. AL
most all of them were both
painters and graphic artists.
who endeavored to express
emotions and moods rather
than objects per Sc. Actually,
the prints and other works at
Watkins Gallery are basically
naturalistic. with distortion
and sharp contrasts of black
and white used to heighten the
emotional impact.
Extensive Variety
The concept Of expressing
emotion takes in a lot of ter
ritory. During the height of
the movement in Germany,
from the first decade of this
century into the 1920s. there
were close-knit groups in
different cities, and also diff
ferences in artists ages and
outlooks. Consequently, visi-
tors to Watkins will find ex-
tensive variety in the show,
ranging from the sorrowful
compassion of Kathe Kollwitz,
to the brutal force of Beck
mann and Pechstein.
The most impressive, to me.
are Ernst Barlach's tragic
Christ in Gethsemane" and
his sculpturesoue. "Kneeling
man; Rohlfs' "Juggler," with
its frightening Dance of
Death overtones, and the
breathlesS amazement of the
onlookers, and Nodes portrait
heads, uncompromisingly vital.
Franz Mares Reclining
Nude" with sheep. has a beau
tiful circular pattern. Lehm-
brooks poetic "Woman's
Dream" Klee's WITNESSES,
Radziwill's flamelike trees and
sky. Campendonck's fam
boyant fantasies. and many
others compose q show which
should not be missed.