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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01

VINO mas naQ q distinguished
foreign service career himself,
turns good anecdote and he
has an endless supply, both
current and historical.
But more than that, "Diplo-
mat" gives shape and mean
ing to the daily news story
on the endless maneuvering
Of the cold war.
East and West
It first establishes the
vital role Of the diplomat in
q graphic chronology of what
went on behind the scenes
before and during the 1858
American troop landings in
Lebanon and then goes on
to tell just what diplomacy
is and how 1t got that way.
Particularly timely is a dis
cussion Of the basic and long
standing differences between
the somewhat formalized
"gentleman's diplom acy"
practiced by the West and
the less ethical, more aggres-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
These Would Be
Our Enemies
STALINGRAD: POINT OF
RETURN. BY Ronald Seth.
Coward Mccain; $4.5O.)

RETURN. BY Ronald Seth.
Coward Mccain; $4.50.)
Conceived and researched
in Stalingrad during the Bull
ganin ascendancy by Ronald
Seth, an author Of several
other books on World War II
and a former British Secret
Agent, this book Is written,
to use the authors own words,
with emphasis on the Rus
sian achievement"
Mr.. Seth may not be Q
communist or q fellow trav-
eler, but he seems to hold the
Soviet military machine in
great awe and has attempted
to communicate this fear and
awe to the reader. To the
acknowledged end that "if
we ever went to war with the
Russians it would be men
like these in the book who
would be our enemies" But,
for all who lived through
World War II and who re-
member the Battle Of Stalin-
grad this book is q concise
picture Of the major issues
Of strategy interspersed with
accounts Of the individual
Russian soldiers.
"A. J, SCEzMIDT,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01

sive and sometimes more
brutal-Eastern brand prac.
ticed by Soviet Russia.
The glimpses into confer.
ence room and code room
and the explanations Of the
stately gamesmanship ct
which all diplomats should
be adept are diverting and
useful. And Mr.. Thayer's
dispassionate discussion Of
the blatant political spoils
system which still dominates
the selection of our top diplo-
mats and the kicking around
the American Foreign Serv-
ice has had in the last few
decades Is more shocking
than an angry diatribe
would be.
All in all Diplomat" is one
Of those rare books that
prove that learning can in
deed be fun. It is recon-.
mended to politicians, jour-
nalists and all citizens who
like to get behind the head
lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01

TIL E LON G w A Y
THROUGH, BY James Bal
lard (Houghton Mifflin;
$4.50) is a sensitive, percep-
tive first novel about an Air
Force soldier in peacetime
who became a military black
sheep.
Spear Williams came from
a tiny West Virginia noun
tain community. His mother
was dead and his father
made an uncertain living
telling trees. When a land
slide killed him, the boy
went to live with an aunt,
who had other children and
resented him.
When he was II Spear left
his new home and, after
fumbling at a few jobs, Joined
the Air Force. He did ex-
tremely well, and within two
years he was a staff sergeant
in a radar warning outfit in
Georgia. Then, after he
married a local girl and they
got Q house, his supposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
Air Force Man Turns
Military BIocksheep

best friend, the master SER
geant, . driving q truck in
which the two were riding at
night on maneuvers, crashed
and reported that Spear was
driving.
The Road DOwnhiIl
Spear, who had had q few
drinks, was sent to the
stockade for six months and
lost his rank. After that he
went down hill fast. His
marriage broke up. Even
tually he was serving two
years in q military prison.
But another girl, whom he'd
met while he was at q radar
school In New Jersey, came
to love him, and as the story
closes his salvation is prom
Used.
Spear tells his story and
well. The novel, though,
loses some Of its force
through NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
dialogue and slow develop
ment. &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic

first important case as q
young lawyer was to defend
the right Of some miners to
strike. As Governor Of Ohio
he managed to end violence
in several strikes, even call
ing out State troops, without
shooting and without even
antagonizing labor.
On the personal side, Nc
Kinley was not merely liked
by his friends-he was be-
loved.
In her sympathetic study
Of the man and the President,
Miss Leech has not gone
overheard.
A Diplomat
apart from the coterie Of
his greatest admirers" she
writes, Mckinley was not
generally regarded as q man
Of quite the first rank, either
in brains or leadership. Cyni-
cal politicians smiled at his
ingenious belief In patriotic
and party platitudes. He had
the reputation Of being diplo-
matte rather than forceful.
anxious to avoid giving Of
tense and careful to keep q
weather eye on the trend Of
public opinion. Yet McKin-
ley had authority and a
curious emotional power"
On the other hand, dur
ing his IA years in Con-
gress, Representative McKin-
ley Twas not classed with the
Old Guard Of reaction" The
elder Robert LaFollette. then
q young man, who served
with him on the Ways and
Means Committee, thought
Mckinley represented the
newer view"
Mckinley had admirable
qualities. He served coura-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
Predictions

unwilling partners in this
battle. Piet, especially, has q
hard time deciding whether
he's on the side Of the hunter
or the hunted.
A completely different cast
Of characters, following q
similar theme, romp through
Hans Fallada's story, trans
lated from the German, Of
THAT RASCAL FRIDOLIN
pantheon: $3.50 Fridolin
is a badger who makes war
on foxes as well as people.
The badger is sometimes q
clown, sometimes a crouch,
with the persistent courage
of a lovely f1ghter-pilot.
After all. he's q terrible nui-
sance in q cor,npatch, but
only a nuisance. For him, it's
his life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
No Stone or Love
Is Left Unturned
In Pepys Expose
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF MIR.

The PRIVATE LIFE OF MIX.
PEPYS. By John Harold
Wilson. (Farrar, Straus e.
Cudahy; $4.75D
It is probable that the
18th century's most cele-
brated diarist would approve
Of Mr.. Wilson'S chronology
cal account of his life
and licentious times. Ger
tainly the author leaves no
stone, or amour, unturned.
Under Mr.. Wilson's micro
scope, Mr.. Pepys appears
more q Walter NIFTY than
typical Restoration rake. This
Is not to say the diarist
failed to take advantage Of
amorous opportunities In
Charles us England. Quite
the contrary, he was carried
uncomplainingly along with
the bacchanalian tide Of the
day.
But as much as Mr.. Pepys
loved love, Mr.. Wilson points
out, r. loved money and
position even more. Through
all his romancing, his mid
die class morality shone like
q diamond.
"A. L. SINGLETON,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
FICTION
WHAT END BUT LOVE. Bv

WHAT END BUT LOVE. BY
Gordon Weber. little
Brown; $4.75.) The re-
creation of an American
family's history in o lost
American time.
LOG JAM. BY Lielie Turner
White. Doubleday; $3.50
A novel about the battle
between two timber kings.
THE LAST DAY. BY Helen
Clarkson. (Dodd . Mead;
$3.50. A novel Of the day
after tomorrow.
GENERAL
FREE MAN AND THE COR
PORATION. BY Roger
Blough. (McGraw Hill;
, $4.50). Corporation life
from an individuals view
point.
HOW TO INCREASE YOUR
MONEY : MAKING POW.
Err. By John Alan Apple
man. (Fell; $4.95.) Ideas
and methods that you can
use to make more money.
THE NEW ESQUIRE ETH
QUETTE. BY the Editors
Of Esquire. Gippincott;
$3.50 A satirical guide to
business, sports and social
conduct.
HOW TO SPEAK AND
WRITE WITH HUMOR.
BY Percy H. Whiting. INC
Graw-Hill; $4.500 Ways,
through the use Of ''hu-
morous Devices" TO de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
Personality Pets

At q certain age. there's
nothing makes better reading
than a story about a pet with
personality. For this audi
ence, Clarence, the Tv dog,
appears in q new role, more
irresistible than ever, in
CLARENCE TURNS SEA-
DOG, by Patricia LAUDER.
(Coward-McCann So Miss
Grimes never really has a
chance when she tries to get
rid of Clarence, but it makes
q good show.
Eddie's parrot, Louella, is
also a pet with personality,
who never said an unkind
word until she got mixed up
with q parrot named Sour
puss. Unravelling this mis-
take is the theme of EDDIE
AND LOUELLA, by Carolyn
Haywood. (Morrow; $3.50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
Original Character

If there we're a prize for
the most original character,
Onion John would surely
win. He was the friend Of all
the boys in Serenity, but es-
pecially Of Andy Rush, IT.,
whose father owned the only
hardware store in town.
Everyone called him Onion
John because he ate onions
the way most people eat
apples or pears.
The flavor of impossibility
about Onion Johns story
only makes it more convinc-
ing. 1t has the impressive
reality Of a boys dream, q
mixture Of "Huckleberry
Finn" and Treasure Island"
Every boy in town, and
some of the men, envied
Onion John because he lived
in splendid isolation on Hes
sian Hill, in a stone house
he had built himself and fur
nished from the town dump.
Into High Gear
When Onion Johns dream
house" becomes the target
for a town demolition prof.
ect. the story moves into high
gear. a battle Of "do-gooders"
against evil spirits. with
Onion John the stubborn
center of 1t all.
It's too bad Joseph Krum-
gold won the Newbery Medal
several years ago for his first
book, "And Now Miguel" In
ONION JOHN (Crowell, So
he far surpasses himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
IN THE DAYS OF McKIN-
LEY. BY Margaret Leech.

IN THE DAfS OF MchlN-
LEY. BY Margaret Leech.
Harper; $7.50)
Margaret Leech. who wrote
"Reveille in Washington"
about the Capital during the
Civil War, which won the Pu-
liter Prize in 1941. has
stripped away the legend Of
William Mckinley and re-
vealed the man as he was.
The legend is that McKin-
ley was an amiable, weak
man, the high priest Of con-
servatism and reaction, dur
ing whose presidency (1897-
1901 big business ruled the
country. This legend has
fiourished in the. era Of the
welfare state. when LIBERAL
ism, in the drivers seat, is
inclined to view disparagingly
all Presidents between Lin
coin and Wilson, with a
further lapse of approval
until Franklin Roosevelt.
He Was No Puppet
Actually. as Miss Leech
carefully develops, Mckinley
was no puppet Of business;
neither was he distrustful Of
all new ideas. He was con-
sentative, as most statesmen
of his day were-and public
figures must be considered in
the light Of their times, Of
its public opinion in gen.
eral-but he could not truth
fully be considered either a
reactionary or a demagogue.
He was sincere in his be-
liefs, and no strings pulled
him this way or that.
The author Of this fine
biography further demolishes
another piece Of political
folklore, fostered in the pc
Rod by a powerful chain Of
newspapers. that Mark Han
ma told Mckinley what to
do, formed his opinions. Nc
Kinley, in truth, was his
own man. and no one knew it
better than Senator Hanna.
The Right to Strike
Mckinley was a high tar
III man. He believed in gold
as the foundation Of the cur
rency, yet he also was q
bimetalist, who felt that sill
yer should be coined freely,
though in nothing like the
wild formula Bryan proposed.
He was for businessmen
men Of his day were-but
he not only was not against
labor, but he received the
support Of union leaders in
most Of his campaigns. His
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
Other Books of the Week in Brief

velop your own humor for
speeches, letters and con-
versation.
COVERED Bird GES OF
THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC
STATES. BY Richard
Sanders Allen. Green;
$6:50.) Their history in
war and peace. A book Of
illustrations.
THE SEARCH FOR EMO
TIONAL SECURITY. BY
Edward Bennett. (Ronald;
$4.509 The search of aver
age men and women for q
sense Of emotional Sc
curity.
MADE IN NEW YORK. BY
Helfgott, Gustafson g.
Humid. Harvard: $6.75.)
Case studies in metropoli-
tan manufacturing.
FLOWERS AROUND THE
CLOCK. BY Seiko Hara.
mckay: $4.95.) Flower ar
ranging.
AND EVERYTHING NICE.
By Vance Hyde. Golden,
Mckay: $3.50 A parents
guide to bringing UP
daughters.
THE LAND AND THE PEO-
PIE OF ICELAND. BY Eric
Berry. Oippincott; $3.50
One Of the portraits Of the
Nations Series.
RACING AT SEA. BY Morris
and Coulson. (Van Nos
trand; $6.50.) Information
about ocean yacht racing.
THE HISTORY OF BASE
BALL. By Allison Danzig
and Joe Reichley. (PYen-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01


JAWS OF VICTORY, by
Jules Abels (Henry Holt 81
Co.: $3.50.
The author, o Washington
economist, presents nothing
strikingly original. But he
! has assembled the facts about
the campaign in q dramatic
fashion and supplemented
them with observations OBJ
tanned from some Of the par
Elephants. The results, taken
together, form an object les
son for the 1860 election and
others in the future. That
lesson could be summed up
In q sentence: Nothing can
be taken for granted III q
presidential election.
He Said So Little
Many reasons have been
ascribed for President Tru-
mans victory. One Of the
overriding ones, in the au-
thor's opinion, was the ma
ture Of the Dewey campaign
that never came to grips
with any issue. Never did
q candidate" Mr.. Abel says,
have SO much to talk about
and say so little"
On the other hand, Mr..
Truman waged a "give-em-
hell" campaign by attacking
the Eightieth Congress de-
spite its good record. and
succeeded, as the author
notes. in presenting his ef-
forts as "the absolute good
waging war against absolute
evil"
The outcome might easily
have been different If Mr..
Dewey had defended the Re-
publican-controlled Congress
and taken advantage of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
Fox VS.. Badger

Some children prefer ami
mails. in books and out. to be
the wild, untamed variety.
And this interest, which Of
ten lasts q lifetime, has
brought two excellent trans
lationS to American children
this year. Both feature a
badger and a fox.
From France comes OLD
ONE-TOE by Michel-Aime
Baudouy. (Harcourt; 49, The
story Is mainly the battle
between a willy fox and q
skilled hunter, the COM
mandant. but it's also the
day-by-day reactions of four
children who find themselves
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
Dewey's Defeat
Lesson for Today
BY CECIL HOLLAND
Star stan Writer

On the night of the 1913 election Thomas Dewey sat
in his New York hotel with victory speech he would never
deliver Came the dawn and Mr. Dewey was the victim Of
the greatest political surprise American history How
this came about is examined In detail in OUT OF THE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
British IA. P. Author
Turns Out a Thriller

rated more daring and more
difficult that Nazi Para
chutist Otto Skorzeni's sue
cessful real-life rescue Of the
imprisoned Benito Mussolini
in World War II.
Does Kuprin leave or
doesn't he? The author
builds up the excitement to
the final pages before he re-
veals the answer. We're not
going to give it away here.
L. EDGAR PRINA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
Spider Tree

Camping out is almost sure
to bring adventure. as Mary,
Jane and Lou discover in
TENT UNDER THE SPIDER
TREE, by Gene Inyart.
watts; $3.50 Miss Inyart,
a Washington librarian. dis
plays her storytelling talents
in this. her first book. Girls
will ind q delicious spon-
taneous tempo Of excitement
running through every mo-
ment Of the camping holiday,
as the girls make war" on
o reluctant boy neighbor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
A SpinetingIing Account
Of History's Quietest Day

happened. Various persons
did various things. So what?
Nobody was murdered, no
body jumped of the EN-
pire State Building, nobody
planted a bomb In an air
liner.
Since Corey Ford has not
tried to expand the idea to
inordinate length, his little
satire is really funny. The
Illustrations he has chosen
add some chuckles.
&C. B. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
A Victorious
War at Sea
In Pictures

VICTORY AT SEA, by Hem
~ Solomon, with Richard
Hansen Doubleday; $3.50, is
a thrilling pictorial history Of
how our Navy and the other
armed forces swept our en-
emies from the seas in World
War II. All phases Of the war
at sea-battles, landings, life
aboard ships and in camps
ARE described, and there is
an adequate text, divided
into phases Of the war.
&C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01

hero-worship in two gaily
written stories for the eight
to-twelves.
THE RICHEST BOY IN
THE WORLD by Francis
: Kalnay (Harcourt. $2.76
concerns q Hungarian boy
and his marble collection.
There are two uncles for good
measure. one very lazy, one
very lonely, In Harry Behn's
Mexican story. THE TWO
UNCLES OF PABLO (Har-
court. So.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
A CALL ON KUPRIN. BY

Maurice Edelman. Clip
pincott; $3.50
As up-to-the-minute as o
bulletin in The Star, this ex-
citing topical novel is the
story Of two British cloak
and dagger amateurs who
convince the Minister Of De-
tense they can persuade"
the foremost Russian rocket
space scientist to quit the
Soviet Union and come to
England.
The fact that the daring
duo, q member of Parlia-
ment and a newspaperman,
knew Prof. Kuprin as a fell
low student at Cambridge
some years before and that
the Russian has a daughter
living in England win them q
green light.
A Large Order
Nevertheless, it still sounds
like an extremely large order,
not only for the imaginative
cloak-and-dagger chaps, but
for the author as well. He
must make the tale believ.
able. This Mr.. Edelman, who
himself has been q member Of
Parliament since 1916, does
with consummate skill.
Prof. Kuprin is the builder
Of the worlds first manned
earth satellite. the Chelovyek.
He now is believed to be
working feverishly on q nu-
clear warhead for the space
vehicle. The crucial Milan
Peace Conference is coming
up and unless the free world
can counter the Russian
achievements and thus bring
about q parity Of strength,
the Soviet Union will have q
tremendous advantage at the
parley.
Difficult and Daring
England plus Kuprin or
Russia minus Kuprin would
produce such q parity. This
Is the rationale behind the
operation, which must be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01

tice Hall; $12.500 Players,
teams and managers Of
years gone by.
VIR GIN ISLANDS. BY
George T. Eggleston. (Van
Nostrand; $7.503
THE BOOK OF SPORTS
CARS. BY Markham g.
Sherwin. putnam; $12.500
SHOUT TREASON. By Fran
els F. Beirns. (Hastings;
So The trial Of Aaron
Burr.
HISTORY 6 BIOGRAPHY
1T HAPPENED AT 1901. BY
Ada M. Engle. (Vantage;
$2.75.) A book of mem
cries Of an era now almost
forgotten.
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF
PHILOSOPHY. BY Daga-
bert D. Runes. (Philosophi-
cal; $50 Three thousand
years of world philosophy.
THE FRISBIES OF THE
SOUTH SEAS. BY John
Frisbie. Doubleday; $3.50
How Robert Dean Frisbie
raised his four Polynesian
children.
I'VE KILLED MEN. BY Jack
Ganshorn. (Devin-Adair;
So An epic Of early Arr
iona.
PLEASE DON'T HATE ME.
By Tiomkin and Buranelli.
Doubleday; $3.50. The
confessions Of an unpre.
dictable musician.
EDITH WHAR TON. By
Marilyn Jones Lyds. tOkla-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
cHILDREN's BOOK WEEK
freedom to Reed
VitoIly Important
BY BARBARA NOLEN
Contributing Writer

stop Understanding chidren!" Nancy Larrick
warns in recent article in the Library Journal"
Gifted students need wider reading opportunities"
other educator recommends
go exploring in books" is the slogan for Chdrens Book
Week this year to be celebrated November 1T with dozen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
Fighting the Worlds
Battles Between Wars
BY CHARLES b. SEIB
Star StaR Writer

DIPLOMAT. By Charles w. Thayer. Harper $450)
Mr. Thayers gosspy and informative report on the
and women who the worlds battles between
is certain to become required reading for all who
in diplomatic work hope to be- But it deserves much
broader leadership than that.
It is first of all consistently entertaining author
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
UncIes Are Special

Very few boys have an
Onion John" in their boy
hood. but sometimes q boy
is lucky enough to have an.
uncle who represents all the
glamor Of independent adj
venturous living. Uncles like
these are special objects Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01

homa; 81 Convention
and morality In the work
Of o novelist.
ALL THE DAYS OF MY
LIFE. By Sister Mary
Jeremy. (Bobbs = Merrill;
$3.50 The story Of o
nuns Me IN teaching.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
The Legend Of President Mckinley
And Big Business Is Stripped Away

geously throughout the Civil
War. rising from private
to captain. leaving the serv-
ice as q brevet major.
Yet. despite his war record,
he never waved the bloody
shirt" and rarely referred to
his war service in speeches
unless he was addressing o
GAR meeting. He was never
stuffy or self-important.
There was, In spite Of his
spectacular political success.
not o little tragedy in his
life. He married q beautiful
Canton. Ohio. girl, but his
bliss lasted only two years.
Ida Mckinley then had q
breakdown and she was an
invalid after that, subject to
mild. epileptic seizures (petit
mal). But her husband never
wavered in his devotion and
always treated her as If
nothing had happened. Ida,
on the other hand, was q
woman Of courage and she
made at least q pretense Of
presiding at the White House.
though there always had to
be standbys in case she fall
tered, as she often did.
An Epochal Era
Mckinley was President as
the century turned and his
first term saw the Spanish
American War, the Philippine
instruction and many other
epochal events. He had
barely started his second
term when, in the fall Of
1901, at the Pan-American
Exposition in Buffalo, an
anarchist struck with two
bullets and the President was
fatally wounded. He was
only So.
Miss Leeeh has written o
warm, colorful biography,
which brings Mckinley into
living shape. She also has
sketched in effectively the
men around him and the
tastes and trends Of the '90s.
1t Is not only the biography
Of a man, but the story Of an
era.
The book is an extraor-
binary achievement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
THE DAY NOTHING HAP
PENEn Nv Horov Ford

PENED. BY Corey Ford.
Doubleday; $1.500
It was inevitable. Some
one would have to do a take
of on the days" various
fateful events of history chose
to happen, like the sinking
Of the Titantic, the assassina-
ton Of Lincoln, the great
snow Of 1888, etc.
A widely known humorist
has told Of q day in New
York when absolutely nothing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
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