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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

man in a strategic position
can mess UP our immigration
laws or cripple our overseas
propaganda operations"
We Need Leadership
In short, Mr.. Stevenson is,
with his usual grace. urging
us to grow up. He would
obviously like to see our
present leaders give us the
same message. Americans
have never been told, by the
only men who can command
continual national attention,
what has to be done and
what sacrifice they must
make to achieve it. He con-
cedes in a rare personal
aside, that he knows well
how unpopular such coun-
sci is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
A Prosecutor Studies the Role
Of Confessions in War and Peoce
WHY MEN CONFESS. BY o.

WHY MEN CONFESS. BY o.
John Rogge. (Thomas Nell
son g. Sons: $50
This is q careful. thought
full and informed probe Of
confession. especially as an
instrument of justice Tor in
justice). 1t deals particularly
with the confessions which
the Russians and the Chi
nese extorted in recent years
from those they chose to con-
slider enemies Of the state.
Mr.. Rogge, a lawyer widely
experienced as a prosecutor,
considers confessions from
medieval to modern times,
from the Inquisition to
brainwashing." Yet he has
centered his study on the
spectacular confessions which
Stain obtained at the purge
trials Of the 30s and on sim
liar later examples Of Soviet
Justice" also on the "ad-
missions" which Chinese
Communists wrung from
captured American soldiers
during the Korean War.
They All Confessed
In the Moscow purge
trials (1936-3s) all the de-
PENDANTS confessed. There
were three such trials. and
the. 81 accused included all
the members Of Lenin's
Politburo who were alive and
in Russia except Stain; they
also included various other
Communist leaders.
In the 1898 trial one Of
the defendants, Nikolai I.
Bukharin. insisted that
neither he nor any Of his
fellow defendants was sub
jected to torture, drugs or
hypnotiSm. Nor, said Buk-
harm, did their confessions
involve the "Dostoyevski
mind" or some feeling Of q
need for punishment. More
over, If he had to be exc
cuted he would die q good
Bolshevik. Nor did he want
any help or consideration
from any but the faithful.
Mr.. Rogge feels from his
research that, while torture
was inflicted in some cases,
In most 1t was not, nor were
drugs relied on. Rather there
was prolonged - months, If
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic

necessary questioning, plus
solitary confinement.
The author concludes that
these confessions 60 deeper
than that, into the peculiar
ambivalence Of the Russian
nature, which at one time
wants to throw OF all au-
thority and to submit to 1t
supinely.
1.-THE compulsion to confess
is q subtle force and has
trapped even those who are
experts in the field of uncon-
scious motivations."
Some foreign observers,
even such an astute one as
Joseph E. Davies, former
American ambassador to
Moscow, were convinced that
the purge trial confessions
were genuine, that the de-
PENDANTS com mttted the
crimes charged to them.
But certain dramatic falsi-
ties in the evidence later
proved some Of these confess
sions spurious, Mr.. Rogge
points out. As one example,
the defendant Hoffman in
1886 confessed that he met
Trotsky at the Hotel Bristol
in Copenhagen in 1882. But
this hotel had burned down
is years before and was never
rebuilt. There were similar
glaring discrepancies in other
confessions.
Sholem Asch is cited by Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
Bruce Marshall Novel
Champions the Church
SATAN AND CARDINAL

SATAN AND CARDINAL
CAMPBELL. BY Bruce
Marshall. (Houghton Milf
flin; $500
Mr.. MarShall's novel about
q Scottish cardinal is trans
parently an excuse to speak
his mind about the Roman
Catholic Church, to which he
gives his loyalty, although not
blindly.
We follow Donald Camp
bells progress from his days
as a lonely convert, newly
ordained, to his death in a
cardinals bed. In the interim
he goes to America, where he
finds an alarmingly colo
quail. regular-fellow type Of
cleric: to Spain, where he
finds little humanity and no
sympathy at all for his anti
vivisectionism. and to France.
where religious ministrations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
Fitzroy MucIeun

Another British M. P. has
taken to print. He is Fitz-
roy Maclean, whose Escape
to Adventure" was one OF
the most exhilarating books
of wartime memoirs. -
APERSON FROM ENG
LAND, he is writing about
travellers to Turkestan, a
land which has called out to
other men as insistently as
it has called out to him.
Turkestan is to him the es-
sence of romance. And
through the centuries this
rather godforsaken land ruled
by bloodthirsty tyrants has
for some reason attracted
certain off-beat personalities
VIGOROUSLY Indifferent to the
creature comforts.
The most interesting Of the
intrepid tourists who pene-
trated the inhospitable area
between Russia and Asia was
DIR. Joseph Wolff, a Jew con-
verted to the ministry Of the
Church of England. Brave
as a lion, if a trifle eccentric.
DR.. Wolff ventured into Box
hara to seek two Englishmen
who were being detained by
a ferociously cruel Ameer. DR..
Wolff barely escaped with his
own hide.
Mr.. Maclean's narrative Is
both scholarly and vivaciotis.
He explains everything about
that particular area of the
world except why anyone
would want to go there.
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are melted out exactly accord
ing to the ability to pay.
There is little story-rather
a succession of anecdotes and
reflections, on comparative
religions, on methods of wor-
ship and different ways to
God: The worlds going to
rack and ruin because Prot
estantS love their neighbor
without loving God and Cath
olics love God without loving
their neighbor."
Cardinal Campbell learns
through his dismaying travels
that he must not judge; that
the Americans, while vulgar,
are pious, too; that the Span
iards. while arrogant, are
capable of martyrdom; that
the French, while material
istic, can bring new life and
grace to the church-in other
words, that the church, de-
spite shortcomings, is one in
its diversity and strong de-
spite weaknesses.
IN. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

between American and Bril-
fish politics: In our tradi-
tional cricket match the
parties are strong and the
best team wins: In the
strip poker of American poll
tics, the parties are weak
and the best man wins. In
England, loyalty-or at least
an appearance Of loyalty
to colleagues and to party
doctrine is the key to sue
cess; in America success
comes to the man who knows
exactly when to jettison a
principle or a friendship in
order to board a band
wagon"
This passage occurs in q
discussion of Franklin d.
Roosevelt. And Mr.. Cross
man can be harsher still:
THE moral strength Of
Roosevelt was that he could
do all the dirty tricks re-
quired of a political leader
without a twinge of con-
science. He felt no sense Of
sin when he lied and twisted
because his personality was
perfectly adapted to the
American political environ
ment." Truman, incidentally.
fares much better in Mr..
Crossman's relentless judg-
ment. .s
He is extremely facile and
felicitous in his style. Oc-
casionally, however. he is
merely glib. For example.
on page AZ, he says, "a politi-
ton becomes a statesman if
at a moment of crisis he can
rise above party" But on page
SO, writing of Anthony Eden.
he says, He has that mystic
rious quality Of seeming to
stand above party which is
often mistaken for statesman
ship at Westminster" Which
statement are we to believe?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
R. H. S. Crossmun

1t is a season for writing
politicians. In "THE CHARM
OF POLITICS" (Harper; $4),
r. H. S. Crossman, a British
member of Parliament writes
with a sharpness of observa-
ton and with that fluency
that is the hallmark of most
Britishers who put pen to
paper, no matter what their
line Of work. Mr.. CrosSman
is no ordinary politician, as
he reveals in these penetrat-
ing commentaries on col
leagues in the field. These
character studies are incor-
porated in a series Of book
reviews which cover range
from Hitler's boyhood to the
exclusion Of j. Robert OPP
penheimer from Americas
atomic secrets.
Best Man Wins
MIR. Crossman is steadily
interesting. invariably pro-
vocative. Here is, his COM
ment on the difference
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

Rogge. In 1.-THE Three Cities"
q character says ut was Q
positive pleasure to q Russian
to confess hts sins and beg
some ones forgiveness and he
would. II necessary. crafty
this desire by inventing q sin
for the occasion because he
was afraid Of being alone
with himself and had O pas
sion for collectivism. What he
really wanted to do was to
make sure that somebody
loved him."
Their Personal Problems
Studies Of American SOL
diers who yielded to the Conn
munists in Korea and some
times confessed" that we
had used germ warfare,
show that most Of them were
torn by personal problems,
were in rebellion against
family, church or society or
all three.
It is not necessary to agree
with all Mr.. Rogge's findings,
such as that "martyrdom and
confessions are basically the
same thing: they are both
efforts to gain love-" He has
written an interesting and
provocative book.
Mr.. Rogge formerly was
Assistant Attorney General in
charge Of the criminal divi-
sion Of the Justice Depart
ment. He is remembered here
as chief prosecutor at the
mass sedition trial Of 1914,
which after seven months
ended in a mistrial and dis
miSsal Of the charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

In our relationship with the
menacing adversary.
Or, to state 1t more posi-
lively, as he has. he tells US
how we could best re-exam-
inc and revise our relation
ships with that part Of the
world which is being so fer
vently courted by the Krem-
lin masters.
Countering the Soviets
The former Democratic
standard bearer does not
fear a third world war--it
would sabotage the economic
advancement which is their
primary target. He is warn
ing about their successes in
the political-economic war
fare which they are waging
with uncommon skill and
witness. It Is this war, "seri-
Gus and probably decisive"
that I'VE in the West will
have to learn to conduct
with the same sense of con-
tinuity and urgency as we
apply to maintaining our
military defenses."
A free society, he con-
cedes, faces enormous diff
culties in countering the
SovietS in such moves as
selling products at cut prices
to get foreign exchange and
capture markets, barter, pur-
chase of commodities other
countries are anxious to sell,
loaning money at low in
terest rates and building
industrial plants and pro-
viding technicians who speak
the language and live humbly
like the local people.
Pinpointing the problem
with his wonted lucidity, he
writes: Our wheat growers
can strain our traditional
relations with Canada; the
textile interests can cause
trouble with Japan and Eng
land: zionists can complicate
our relations in the Middle
East. and a single Congress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
Characters You Have
Never Met Before

THE GOOD WIFE, by Au-
relia Levi (Rhinehart; $500
is a competent, If rather
wordy, novel about a small
group Of tangent persons in a
Southern seacoast town, pre-
sumably in Florida.
The characters are care
fully fashioned and emerge
wildly. But what characters!
They are something like a
collection Of Charles Adams
drawings transferred to
prose.
There's Marden, who has
grown wealthy developing a
seaside resort. He is large,
powerful and sadistic. His
wife, Garnette, is a clinging
creature who, like Sweet
Alice of the Ben Bolt song,
"trembled with fear if you
gave her a frown." They have
two sons, the elder almost
normal. a philosophy instruc-
tor at the university. The
younger is q 16-year-old
monster who anuses himself
by scrawling dirty words on
walls "a job for novelists
these daySD and wrecking
rooms. He has been kicked
out Of several schools, nat
urally. He should have been
under psychiatric treatment
for years.
We are asked to believe
that the maSochistic mother,
after q brief amatory en-
counter with a concert pi-
anist, musters nerve enough
to leave her brutal husband.
She does not quit Marden
for the musician. who, un-
dersSandablJ doesn't want
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
Other Books of the Week in Brief

Siegel. (Harcourt, Brace &
Co.: $3.50 A young Greek
physician strives to throw
of the bonds Of slavery
during 2nd century AID.
when Hadrian's Roman
Empire ruled the Medi-
terranean.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
ABOVE ALL A SHEPHERD:
POPE JOHN XIII. BY
Ugo Groppi and Julius S.
lombard. Up. j. Kennedy
& Sons: $3.50 A biogra-
ply by two professors Of
Seton Hall University,
Newark, N. j. Illustrated.
ARISTOTLE AND THE
AMERICAN INDIANS. BY
Lewis Hanke. Henry
Regnery Co.: $500 On
the issue Of slavery Of In
dams during the early
Spanish conquests In
America.
THE SURGEONS TALE. BY
Robert g. Richardson.
(Charles Scribner's Sons:
$4.95.) A British surgeon
tells the story Of advances
in modern surgery.
VIRGIL THOMSON, HIS
LIFE AND MUSIC. BY
Kathleen Hoover and John
Cage. CThomas Yoseloff,
Publisher: SD
GENERAL
CONCENTRATION A
GUIDE TO MENTAL
MASTERY. BY Mount
Sadhu. CHarper & Broth.
ers; $500 How to atta+R
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

delight. Bird, beast. or
fish: to a child, no animal is
really dumb.
Not many adults would
choose a pig for a pet though
I once knew an artist who
kept a pig in her New York
apartment. Emmett was not
so lucky. He wanted a pig
for his birthday but his par
entS felt that a city apart
ment was no place for a pig.
Emmett was discouraged.
There wasn't even a pig in
the zoo; plenty Of other ami
mails but no pig.
Mary Stolz, whose teen
age novels are touched with
romance is equally skillful in
writing about a boys dreams
of a pet pig in EMMETT'S
PIG (Harpers. $3.50. The
mood of the story is reflected
in the pictures by Garth Will
liams. who drew that other
lovable pig, Wilbur, in
CHARLOTTE'S WEB. The
beginning reader will be
drawn along so smoothly
he'll hardly know he's read
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

turned the Job IN the re-
markedly short space Of 20
days. And his publisher is
issuing the timely volume
Just three months after the
Castro forces overthrow Die
tator Fulgencio Batista.
The book Is crammed with
details Of Castro's philoso-
ply. his eventful life, his
fiery speeches, the "26th of
July Movement" and the
civil war which forced Batista
to fee.
Man on Horseback
This is a fascinating sue
cess story. for as the author
points out, in December,
1856, the 30-year-old bearded
revolutionist was holed up in
the Sierra Maestro with only
IL men: yet he fired the
imagination Of his country
men and built up rebel
forces that defeated a stand
ing army Of $4,000 and top
pied q tyrant.
Mr.. Dubois is critical Of
some Of our political deci-
sions with respect to the Ba-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

her. We also are asked to be-
heve that the moron boy,
attracted to and loved by q
girl of his age, the dishrag-
flbered daughter of a domi-
neering widow. is turning
normal. now that he's away
from his father.
It's hard to care what hap
pens to these characters. And
the ending is entirely I'M
believable. Obi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

higher concentration in
spiritual as well as every
day thoughts.
AMERICAN FOREIGN AZ
FAIRS: A GUIDE TO IN
TERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
BY William Lyle SchurZ.
&c. P. Dutton & Co.: $4.500
CONTEMPORARY AMERI-
CAN PAINTING AND
SCULPTURE. Introd. by
Allen S. Weller. (Univer-
sity of Illinois Press; $500.
Black and white reproduc-
tions.
THE FOLKLORE OF BIRDS.
BY Edward Armstrong.
(Houghton Mif1in Co.:
$3.50. The fascination Of
birds in legend. magic and
religion. Illustrated.
A PERSON FROM ENG
LAND. BY Fitzroy Maclean.
(Harper & Bros. So On
travels through ancient
Turkestan of Central Asia.
PAPERBAcKS
BATTLE FOR THE RHINE.
BY r. w. Thompson. CBal-
lantine Books; 50c.) The
story Of the bloody battle
that smashed the Siegfried
Line. by the author Of The
IS Days"
10 DAYS TO A SUCCESS
Full MEMORY. BY Joyce
Brothers and Edward P. r.
Eaean. prentice : Han:
3ee.A Joyce Brothers, win
ner Of The So, 900 Ques-
ton" tells how to learn
eaickly and thoroughly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
FICTION

TOO NEAR THE THRONE.
BY Molly Costain Hay
craft. q. B. Lippincott Co.;
$3.50) A story Of Arbella
Stuart, a possible heir to
Queen Elizabeth rs throne
and lover of the Queens
favorite nobelman.
THE SWORD AND THE
PROMISE. BY Benjamin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
SUCCESS STORY
Castro Biography
Is Well Timed
SUCCESS STORY
BY JOHN v. HORNER
Star stan writer

FIDEL CASTRO: REBEL, LIBERATOR OR DICTATOR?
BY Jules Dubois. (Bobbs- Merrill; So
Dr. Castro fortunate at the most critical Of his
young political to have this favorable portrait
sented by experienced Latin American correspondent
Mr.. Dubois, veteran of the Chicago Tribune staff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
Other Animals

Other books filled with
keen observation Of animals
are: THE ANIMALS OF DIR.
SCHWEITZER by Jean Fritz
Coward Mccain, So.
GOATS by Wilfrid Bronson
(Harcourt, Brace, $3.50
KANGAROOS AND OTHER
ANIMALS WITH POCKETS
by Louis Darling Morrow,
$3.50. ANIMALS THAT
HELP Us by Carroll Lane
Fenton and Herminie Kitch-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Animals Are Different
But Not Really Dumb
By BARBARA NOLEN
Contributing Writer

Most boys and girls would agree that animals
interesting than people They don't to boss you the
people do Instead they constantly trying express their
loyalty and devotion by shining Waggng
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
And the Birds

Birds are all around US in
the Washington area where
climate is hoSpitable and
food plentiful. LOOK FOR
A BIRDS NEST by Robert
Scharff putnam; $2.75)
will be particularly useful for
scouts and Junior Audubon
clubbers. So will OLIVER
PETE is A BIRD by Carroll
Lane Fenton and Dorothy
Pallas John Day; $2.75).
Many detailed drawings show
how birds use their claws,
beaks and feathers.
In WHOOPING CRANE
(Morrow; $3.50, Robert Nc
Chung tells how the "whoop-
ers" struggle for mere exist.
ence. Scientists say that
every year wildlife Is fight
ing a losing battle. in the
United States, in Africa.
everywhere. Almost a hun
dred species have disappeared
in the last century. VIII the
whooping crane be the next
to go?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
POLITICIAN AUTHORS
Stevenson Et AL.
Put 1t in Writing
BY MARY McGRORY
star stan writer

Adai Stevenson continues TO make good the promise
he made In two campaigns TO talk the American
people, In FRIENDS AND ENEMIES dzarper: 81 95) re-
port his 1853 tour Of the Soviet Union tells us in his
pleasant fashion the unpleasant things ought to consider
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
Horses

Children OF all ages are
still wishing for horses and
getting them. A three colored
pony was the answer for the
three children in C. w. An
dersen's PONY FOR THREE
macmillan. so. Like the
popular Blaze stories, this
picture book is a quiet story
of pony rides and adventures
with woodchucks and rabbits.
The boy who had to go to
school on a train found it
a lonesome journey until a
horse appeared from now
where and raced the train
each morning. The engineer
didn't believe q word of it.
MY boy tells stories like that
sometimes. too" he said.
But the horse was really
there on the mountain and,
when deep snow fell, he was
trapped. Wilma Hays tells
how the horse was rescued
in THE LITTLE HORSE
THAT RACED A TRAIN.
Little, Brown. $2.75J
Two girls have the time of
their lives in THE SECRET
HORSE by Marion Holland
Little. Brown. So. It's a big
job to keep q hungry old
horse secret for a whole sum-
mer vacation, but the Girls
managed. with the help of
some lush poison ivy and in
spite Of Q curious small
brother.
For older horse fans. Mary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
Docs

logs
Dogs with ugly faces find
1t hard to win friends and
influence people. That is
Muggsy's problem in Marion
Hollands easiest reading
book of the season. MUGGSY
Knopf. $3.50. For the 8
and 9-year-year-olds who
want more action and hui
NOR, THAT BIG BROOZER
by Benzell Graham Morrow.
$2.75) features another dog
with an ugly face and a soft
heart. If Broozer hadn't been
so good-natured, his story
would be sad instead of
funny.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
WiIdIife

In WILDLIFE AT YOUR
DOORSTEP prentice Hall,
so Glen Rounds made it
abundantly clear that you
do not need a magic cloak Of
invisibility in order to have
a ringside seat for smuggling
matches in your backyard.
If you sit still long enough.
you can capture the conf
dence of a black snake or a
flying squirrel.
Duryea Morton, who
teaches natural history at
Potomac School, evidently
knows how to be a quiet OBJ
server of wildlife. In WHO
LIVES IN A FIELD Cow
ard-McCann, So. he tells
how the boy David built a
treehouse and did it so
quietly that even the white
footed mouse took him for
granted. From his refuge, he
was able to eavesdrop on the
private life of owls, shrews,
woodchucks and rabbits. The
writing is solid yet simple
enough to inform an intelli-
gent 10-year-old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

en- John Day, $3.50, AMI.
NAL BABIES by Ylla liar
pers, $2.75).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

PRIZEWINNER - Illus
tration from "Chanticleer
and the Fox" by Barbara
Cooney, winner of the
Caldecott Medal for the
best children's picture
book of the year.
Patchett has written about a
wild white stallion in BRUM-
BY CBobbs, Merrill. So. All
wild horses are called Drum
bies" in Australia, but this
one was special, at least to
the boy joey. The struggle
to tame a horse who had
been cruelty treated is also
well handled in THE PHAN-
TOM ROAM by Stephen Holt
(Grosset. Reissue. $3.50.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-05-20
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Michael Grasha upravte Polatka Hrvatske Bratske "a
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Poslije programa bti &c veeera cijenu $125 od
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