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Evening star., 1960-08-21
BLACK SATURDAY. By

- - - - - On u OANDh oJ
Alexander Mckee (Holt,
Rine hart & Winston;
$4.50).
1t was, indeed, a black
Saturday for the British Royal
Navy. 1t was the night of
october IA, 1899, only a few
weeks after the start of World
War II. when Britain and
the world were stunned by
the announcement of an
impossible" catastrophe
the sinking in "impregnable"
Scapa Flow Of HMS Royal
Oak. Could it really be true
that Nazi U-boat had sue
ceeded in penetrating the
harbor defenSes of the Royal
Navy's prime anchorage, tor
pedoing the huge battleShip
and escaping without detec-
ton back to Germany?
The world listened wonder
ingly to the bombastic gloat-
ing of the Nazi propaganda
ministry that such had been
the case. Comdr. Prien of
the U-47 was praised by Der
Fuehrer personally and dec
GRATED with the Iron Cross.
And Prien, no modest violet,
gave colorful. detailed ac-
counts Of his exploit in press
Evening star., 1960-08-21
Sub-Crew Principals
In Stirring Novel

member Of the crew to life
the mothers boy who didn't
want to fire a shot in anger,
the one bad apple in the
barrel. the ladies man, the
buddy seeking revenge. the
hot poker player, all the men
who had never been to sea.
The anecdotes run the
gamut from laughter to tears,
from the ridiculous to the
heroic. The crews initial sea-
sickness is as poignantly
described as the ultimate
battle engagement. BY wait
ing until now to tell his story,
the author has achieved a
perspective that enables him
to write the biography of a
ship and its men with affec-
tion rather than sentiment
tality. with truth rather than
fantasy.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1960-08-21
Newest French Doll
Of the Sogon School
THE SEASONS OF LOVE

THE SEASONS OF LOVE.
BY Genevieve Dormann,
translated from the French
by Elaine Desautels. BRA
zlller; $500
Since Francoise Sangan
was catapulted on the lit
erary scene a few years ago
with "Boniour, Tristesse."
several other precocious
young women of France have
been emboldened to offer
their writings.
Genevieve Dormann. the
prettiest of them, need not
bow in a literary way to any,
including La Sangan. She
reveals in this first novel as
sure talent as any, per-
haps greater. Indeed, no new
WRITER, man OF woman, WIN
more promise has emer2ed
from France in recent years.
The story of THE Seasons
Of Love" at least in outline.
is like those of a hundred.
maybe a thousand other
French novels. Marianne,
married for three years to a
Partisan architect. falls hard
for a young doctor, who also
is married. They carry on a
sporadic affair. and it takes
Marianne quite a while to
realize that the doctor has
no intention of leaving his
wife.
Evening star., 1960-08-21

never to desert their little
house on an exposed spit
directly in the teeth of the
wind. Nor did they.
But more poignantly, the
invading sea provided a test
for the boy Jackie Joyce. who
prayed each day that he
might be as strong and able
as his father, Carmac. Facing
a torrent of water and wind.
the boy found the courage to
help save his family's posses
sions. More Importantly, he
succeeded in convincing him
self that he possessed a mans
fortitude.
The Sea and Its Moods
This is a moving book about
people who live close to the
sea and learn to sense its
moods. If some of their deeds
were exceptionally brave, it
was Of small moment to them,
and any suggestion of hero
ism would have doubtless
caused a surprise.
JOSEPH OKEEFE.
Evening star., 1960-08-21

should not be in the repertory
of a 29-year-old spinster. She
is, to cap it all, hopelessly in
love with a shabby little mar
ried man, a social worker with
a pipe and a blithe spirit and
a flow of speculative and
metaphorical rhetoric that
never ceased"
A Puritan Still
We meet the Eustaces in
the bitter cold and darkness
OF the shortest day of the
year, December 81. We leave
them a year later. In the in
terim, there are spates of
wonderful, wondering, and
brittle talk; there are ire
trievable disasters; there are
the nibbling demands Of daily
life between catastrophes.
There is tragedy, and death.
There is finally an end to
grouping. There is the discov-
cry, on Mary's part, that she
is a Puritan still, that she is
welded in her mind to the
idea Of discipline and duty,
that she is subject to the
New England old maids eter-
nal mania to be useful.
MI. Brace tells it all with
compassion and skill. He has
accomplished what few other
chroniclers of small lives can
achieve: he has made their
dilemma absorbing. The novel
Is streWn with wit, and the
literacy of the superbly de-
llneated characters is an i'm
plicit endorsement Of the
New England public school
system and its wisdom in
making the young memorize
poetry, a practice that can
make a novel and even ex-
istence glow at odd moments.
Evening star., 1960-08-21
A Storm-Ridden Saga
Of Seoforinq Folk
THE HANDS OF CARMAC

THE HANDS OF CARMAC
JOYCE. BY Leonard Wib-
berly. G. P. Putnam's
Sons: $2.95D
When a gale threatened a
primitive little island off the
coast Of County Galway, Ire
land. coast guard cutter
put in to remove those who
sought safer quarters. But
mostly, only the children left.
One fisherman went aboard.
but he regretted it and later
tried to row home.
The Hands OF Carmac
Joyce" revolves to a great
extent around two who stayed
to resist the storm. one a man
of 80. the other a boy Of g.
Braved the Storms
The elder, Michael Reece,
viewed the onrushing ele-
ments with a sense of fatal
ism. He walked through his
small fields. scanning each
shrub and tree affectionately.
Regardless OF what befell
them, he and his wife planned
Evening star., 1960-08-21
Seen Through
OiI-Couted
Windows
KINGS AND CAMELS. BY
Grant C. Butler. (Devin-
Adoir, ca 50)

KINGS AND CAMELS. BY
Grant C. Butler. (Devin-
Adair. S4.50D
Understanding - not Just
toleranceAis Grant Buffers
hope in this eXpository book
on Saudi Arabia.
The American cliff dweller
looking out his picture win
dow on the pain of an
Arabian emerging from tents
to towns and from camels to
cars is likely only to see a
billion barrels of oil. an Is
Taeli border clash and a reek-
ing desert tribesman with
flowing robe and waving
sword.
Grant Butler means to
wash the window.
There is no plot.
Three Americans dressed
as Arabs landed in this for
bidding land of the Bedouin
in 1893 looking for oil. Five
years later their discoveries
became bonanzaS. Ever since
then, the Arabian American
Oil Company CARAMCO )haS
been sucking success from
under the hot, shifting sands
bringing great wealth and
Western ways in juxtaposi-
ton with the spare life of
the desert.
Now, many nations vie over
Arabia's oil and her citizens
fomcnt for nationality and
luXuries.
Any resulting bad press"
is unjust in Mr.. Buffers view
and he presents in this book
a sympathetic description of
the Arab of the tribal past
and the nationaliStic present;
of their deeply-held faith,
Islam; Of their battles with
zjonism and communism; of
ARAMCO's part in Arabian
progress and turmoil; and
other major issues in this
strategic land.
This is done Interestingly
through interviews with ma
tives. workers, officials and
visitors, making the reader a
f1rst-hand listener in CONVEX
sation between the reporter
and an Arabian heart and
mind.
And it is a contribution to
understanding today's Arabia.
ARNOLD TAYLOR.
Evening star., 1960-08-21
FICTION

THE WORLD is NO PLACE
FOR CHILDREN. BY How
ard A. Schneider. Double
day; So Cartoons.
THE PRIVATE WORLD OF
GULLY WERS. BY
George Bluestone. CDou-
bleday; 1895. The story
Of a young recruits foray
into the bewildering world
Of the Army.
CARVINGS OF DESIRE. BY
Woodland Kahler. Liver
right; $3.50 A novel of
reflection.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
INTAN CHILE INHERI-
TANCE. BY Ellen Ii Juan.
pageant; $2.50D Biogra-
ply Of Rev. Y. M. Lee,
Christian missionary.
JULIAN THE APOSTATE.
BY Giuseppe Ricciotti.
Bruce; $4.75.) Translated
by M. Joseph CoStelloe.
Evening star., 1960-08-21
GENERAL

RICH Is THE EARTH. BY
Joseph Capoferri. VAN
tage; So Word paintings
Of the four seasons.
SEARCH IN THE NORTH.
BY Guy Blanchet. lSt.
Martins; $4.50D The story
Of the first attempt at
prospecting by aeroplane in
the Arctic Barrens.
THE WORLD OF LIFE. BY
Joseph Golznig Fischer.
Vantage; $3,75.D Probes
the relationship between
God and man and between
all forms of life which we
know today.
THE FASCINATING WORLD
OF ASTRONOMY. BY
Robert S. Richardson. CMc-
Graw-Hlll; $685. Answers
questions as space age
science pushes ahead to
new frontiers.
BENEDICTINE AND MOOR.
BY Peter Beach and Will
Evening star., 1960-08-21
THE SEVEN: NAVY SUB,

THE SEVEN: NAVY SUB
CHASER. By William Ed
ward Syers. CDuell, Sloan
& Pearce; $4.95.)
The author has compressed
the amassed anecdotes of the
Navy's wartime subchaser
service into a novel about
one subchaser and its crew.
He has managed his tribute
to the branch in which he
served so smoothly that the
reader is carried through
training and shakedown,
through convoy duty in the
Caribbean and submarine
warfare in the Pacific with
no feeling that all this
couldn't have happened to
just one ship.
On the contrary, the spe-
cific detail of many anec-
dotes serves to bring each
Evening star., 1960-08-21

II this situation is overly
familiar, the way Mile. Dor
mann handles it is decidedly
not. She reveals a certain
touch. a wit, a satirical un-
dertone that not only saves
the story from ever descend
ing into banality. but makes
it a delight to read.
1t will be interesting to see
Genevieve Dormann's future
novels. &C. b. ].
Evening star., 1960-08-21
Writing and Telling
DEAR FOLKS. BY Juliet
Lowell lPntnann. SCosA

DEAR FOLKS. BY Juliet
Lowell. Putnam: S2.95.)
This unexpurgated collec-
ton of letters both to and
about-but mostly from-the
youngest generation will
make many parents wonder
If it is smart to teach Johnny
to write after all. If parents
blanch at what their off,
spring may reveal about the
household through show
and tell at school, a perusal
of these letters will only con-
firm their widest suspicious
such as the one from camp
which says Il am tired Of
doing everything to whistles
and gongS. I would rather
come home and have Nom
yell at me-" MP.
Evening star., 1960-08-21
Another Book
By d TireIess
Observer
YOU LEARN BY LIVING.
Bv Eleanor Roosevelt

oE Il n IL " NOOS6N 6lG.
Harper
The indefatigable-and. it
is to be hoped, indestructible
Mrs. Roosevelt, at rs has
written another book.
This one is not biographi-
cal in the sense its predeces-
SorS were. But it might be
called a biography of her
convictions and beliefs since
it explains their backgrounds
in her life. In the book she
summarizes the wisdom that
has come to her in her eX-
traordinarily active life.
This is no book of advice
for the troubled. Many,
however, will find in it sage
counsel and guidance in meet
ing their everyday problems.
To Mrs. Roosevelt apathy
and laziness are great sins.
Using the hours to the hilt
and making them count for
something is the beginning
Of wisdom.
A ByprOduct
To Mrs. Roosevelt, happi-
ness is not a goal, it is a
by-product. You cannot be
unhappy if you are engaged
in many projects. and meet
ing the needs OF others is
what makes life worth living.
1T is probably the deepest
satisfaction a woman has"
says Mrs. Roosevelt. Her
hours are used to the hilt, as
she has made clear before,
and she outlines again the
multiplicity of interests that
MI her long days.
Mrs. Roosevelt. one of the
worlds most interesting wom-
en-, has produced a most in
teresting book. II was re-
marked at the outset that it
is hoped she is indestrut-
ible. The reader will be con-
vinced that she Is.
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.
Evening star., 1960-08-21

system Of spying and intrigue
as the Soviets have spread
over the world ever since they
seized power in 1917.
The author of this thrilling
book has. however, concen-
trated on the period between
the world wars and on the
plotting and contemplating
between anti Communist
Russians in and out of Rus
Sia and the cloaked-and-dag-
gered legions who worked
for Lenin. then Stain.
Hated Communism
This book will make you
realize. If you hadn't before,
how many influential Rus
sians-and not all of the land
owning aristocracy-hated
and distruSted the dictator
ship set up in their homeland
more than 40 years ago.
They tried to do something
about it from the first. Ini-
TALLY. there was the civil war
in Russia, in which the allies
Joined. at Arkhangel and
Vladivostok, largely under the
contention that they were
thus fighting the Germans,
with whom the Soviets had
made a shameful peace at
BreSt-LitovSk.
Whites Against Reds
Later in Paris these White
Russians set up ROWS CRus-
sian Armed Forces Union ,
a para military group. an out
growth Of the White armies
which had been defeated in
the civil war.
Two Of the three generals
who headed the ROWS be-
tween the world wars were
kidnapped brazenly on the
streets Of Paris and vanished
without a trace. These were
1t. Gen. P. A. Kutyepov and
a lieutenant general with the
unlikely last name of Miller
this Christian names, Event
Karlovichl.
Cheka to NKVD.
Few apostates or fugitives
from Soviet Justice" escaped
the long reach of the Cheka
'later the UGPU and the
NKVDO, the political police.
The author cites case
well-remembered in Wash
ington. In 1887 Gen. Walter
Ghinsburg- -Krivitzky was the
NKVD's top resident" in
Western Europe. He defect
Evening star., 1960-08-21
American Indian
Is Indexed Anew

DICTIONARY OF THE
AMERICAN INDIAN, by
John l.. Stoutenburgh, jr.
Philosophical Library; $1O)
is an up-to-date source book
by the executive director of
the Marathon County His
torical Society Of Wisconsin.
Names of tribes, individuals
and regions important to In
dians are listed and eX-
planned. Sometimes there's
a whole romantic story in
one of the entries.
&C. r. J.
Evening star., 1960-08-21
CRIME AND MYSTERY
BY BETTY MILES
Star stan Writer

Della Eaton, American movie
star who has remarked and
Is the mother of twin sons.
Inspector Clay Crowell, old
friend of Della, and Lieu
tenant Levy, his young side
kick, investigate the stars
menage after a bullet claims
the count before cancer can.
Pleasant reading about ami
able. interesting people. even
If the plot is predictable.
DEVILS DUE. BY Maurice
Proctor. Harper g. Bros;
$685.
Not even Jean Valjean was
tracked more persiStently
than is mobster Dixie Cos
tello by Granchester's Detec-
tive Chief Inspector Martin
eau. But Martineau's method
is of a piece with the humor-
Gus balance of the man. One
of these days Dixie is going to
trap himself, and Martineau
wonders if the case of the
robbery with the new notes
exchanged for old isn't the
one that may trip Dixie up
legally at last. The adven-
lures of personable young
undercover policeman named
Hearn. who poses as a boxer
to find gymnasts connected
with the crime. add color to
the plot. Wry humor and
professional police work char
acterize this rewarding addi-
ton to a fine series.
VALLEY OF SMUGGLERS.
BY Arthur w. Upheld.
Doubleday and Co., Inc;
$685.
Australias Inspector Ma
poleon Bonaparte. posing as
Nat Bonnay. man with as
little respect for the law as
the families he wants to con-
tact. is accepted by the Con-
ways and Kellys of Cork VAL
ley in New South Wales,
where a latter-day Ireland
has been fashioned. "Bony"
grows fond of the families.
but must remember that his
mission is to find the mur-
derer of a fellow law officer.
No stereotype associated with
the Irish character is over
looked in this diffuse tale that
would have been more ef-
fective if the author had
created people who happened
to be Irish, instead of the
other way around.
Il *&
NJ DER: ONE. TWO,
THREE. BY John Creasey.
(Charles Scribner's Sons;
$2.95.)
One of the finest Inspector
West stories finds that splen-
did policeman hunting for a
kidnapped woman in the
honeycomb OF Easements and
cellars around St. Paul's in
London, left open to the sky
In the Wasteland created by
the Great Fire of l941. The
girl is the wife of a question
able and missing character
believed by a criminal to
h ave stolen the loot.
Thorough inveStigation
brings several genuine sur
prises and a startling, In
genuous solution. First rate.
Evening star., 1960-08-21

a kind OF Yankee Tennessee
Williams. The Eustaces are
going down, not in sensual
violence, but In articulate
desperation and railing pur-
poselessness.
Their Puritan heritage has
been dissipated. They have
long since lost God. The Eu-
STAGES live actually in their
dreary house in East Comp
ton on the outskirts of Bos-
ton; spiritually. they inhabit
the drab suburban equivalent
of hell.
A Drab Picture
The mother, a stark, ruined
beauty, is proud of her pedi-
gree. She tries to instill into
her children some idea of
the h-mindedness of their
ancestors. Mostly, she lets
the dishes pile up in the sink
and reads Trollope all day.
The father, an engineer
turned janitor is mired down
in whisky and cynicism. The
only son is a basketball star
who succumbs easily to the
general futility. Patience, the
younger daughter, falls in
love with a Syrian immigrant
eXistentialiSt who unfor-
tunately shares her disdain
Of marriage.
The heroine OF Winter
Solstice." Mary, the older girl.
is something special in the
way Of novel heroineS. She
looks in the words Of her
worthy suitor's father, like
an early British queen" She
feels. in her own words like
"a mouse in a cage with a
few little doors to 60
through" She is ferocious,
witty and abrasive, subject to
moods and outbursts that
Evening star., 1960-08-21

ed. "The Kremlin neither
forgot nor forgave him. The
man hunt lasted almost 4
years."
1t ended in an obscure
Washington hotel when on
February 10, 1941. Gen. Kri-
vitzky was found shot through
the head. A gun lay con-
veniently nearby. but, while
the official verdict was sui
eide. the police were skepti-
cal. The author has no doubt
what happened. The same
thing had happened to Trot-
sky in Mexico City a year
earlier.
The Stain Purge
The author not only writes
from well-documented facts,
but he obviously was close to
a lot of the events-too close
to use his own name, even
today. He writes under a
pseudonym.
Mr.. Bailey. as he calls him.
self, goes into the Stain
purge of the '30s.
Actually there was, accord
ing to the authors evidence,
a plot to oust Stain, and
Marshal Tukhachevsky, Rus
sia's most able soldier, was
its leading spirit.
Old Joe Was Fooled
The ironical part was that
Stain never knew, at least
until later. Of this plot. but
was actuated by some sixth
sense which helped keep him
in power all those years. He
felt that Tukhachevsky and
a lot of other leaders were
against him, and his luck
held-Stalin struck first.
TukhachevSky and the 9TH
ers were liquidated. many
thousands in the aggregate.
So adroit were the plotters,
in the Red and White game,
that the Soviet secret police
had agents planted in the
White Rows, some near the
top spots. and Rows agents
were working for the Soviet
espionage system.
Aside from the historical
value of this book, which can
hardly be doubted. it is fas-
clnating. Many of its episodes
sound like plots E. Philips
Oppenheim or Manning Coles
might have conjured up.
There are dozens of good
movies in it.
Evening star., 1960-08-21
ACIose Look
Atthe Record
OfMr. Dulles
DUEL AT The BRINK. Bv

DUEL AT THE BRINK. BY
Roscoe Drummond and
CASTOR Coblentz. Double
day g. Co.; S4.5OD
For six turbulent years. the
late John Foster Dulles was
primarily responsible for
initiating and executing
American foreign policy. BY
virtue of his position. his
policies dominated the West
ern alliance in its struggle
against communism.
Two distinguished CORE
spondentS Of the New York
Herald Tribune have pooled
their notes in this concise,
readable survey of Mr.. Dulles
activities as Secretary of
States Mr.. Drummond, based
in Washington, and Mr..
CoblentZ, who works in
Europe. have added their
findings from personal inter-
views with statesmen and
diplomats to the generally
known facts for their Jour
nalistic review.
Quest for Freedom
John Foster Dulles was an
extraordinary man. AS Sec
retary Of State, a post he long
coveted. he tirelessly pursued
policies he was confident
would vanquish the Kremlin
and bring political freedom
to the world.
He might have won more
success had he been less
dogmatic and less inclined
to overStatement. While he
can be admired and re-
spected as a man of enormous
principle, the issue is not.
as the authors note, how
we'll he tried, but how we'll
he succeeded.
Minus and Plus
Listing the tests Mr.,
Dulles himself applied to
castigate the policies of
Harry Truman and Dean
Acheson. the authors find
"minuses" in his accomplish
ments dealing with the lib
eration"-peaceful or other
wiSe-of the European sat
elites, Indochina, the Middle
East, the military balance of
power and iet-United
States propaganda.
They find "pluses" in his
policies toward West Ger
many, a united Europe, the
British French Israeli at
tack on the Suez Canal, the
disturbances in Lebanon and
the Southeast Asian coun-
tries.
Red China
Although the authors
credit Mr.. Dulles with con-
vincing President Eisenhower
not to write off the Chinese
offshore islands of Quemoy
and Matsu, they do not list
this move which prevented a
Communist advance - no
matter how small an area
as a plus"
A large part OF the book is
devoted to the personal rela-
tionShips Mr.. Dulles had with
the President.
With Mr.. Eisenhower there
was complete rapport NO
Secretary Of State ever
operated under such a prodi-
gious mandate of authority
as Eisenhower gave" But
with Mr.. Eden and the
British, there was tremen-
dous distrust (Mr. Eden is
said to have urged Mr.. Eisen-
hover not to name Mr..
Dulles Secretary of State.
In this election year, it
is worthwhile to look back
at Mr.. Dulles stewardship of
the State Department not
only to see the problems he
faced, but also the difficulties
in which he found himself
as a result of intemperate
statements by over-zealous
campaigners.
BURT HOFFMAN.
Evening star., 1960-08-21
MASTERFUL NEW NOVEL
SmonFomiIyLife
Well Defined
By MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

Gerald Warner Brace has written his best novel since
Ihe Garretson Chronicle" 1t is called WINTER SOLS-
TICE (W w. Norton $395). Sombre, as the title sug-
guests also honorable and beautifully written
Mr. Brace Is writing about New England family that
going to seed You must not however think that he
Evening star., 1960-08-21
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Evening star., 1960-08-21
BEHIND THE CURTAIN No. :sl; ;
The Russian Spy
system at Work
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

THE CONSPIRATORS by Geoffrey Bailey (Harper; $49
When Nikta Khrushchev recently expressed indignant
horror at the idea that the United States could be guilty
espionage host of Russians living and dead must have
been shaken with Sardonic laughter
For country in history
Evening star., 1960-08-21

A cool cat of crime is Clay,
an organization man who
kills only when necessary and
without emotion, for the
greater good of the mob.
THE MERCENARIES is Dom
aid E. Westlake's first novel
Random House, $685.. His
hero tells his own story as
right-hand man to Ed Gano-
lese, gangster = businessman
whose firm meets the de-
mand for dope and prostitu-
ton. Mr.. Westlake's clipped.
breezy, bitter picture of a
college man who found crime
paid and was stimulating.
too. marks him as a new
conner most certainly arrived.
BAR SINISTER. BY K. C.
Ballard. Doubleday g. Co.;
S2.95.D
Don Crlstobal. elegant and
dying, is not the first bastard
who finds a will a way to
make even his death a
scourge. Among those he
comes to America to see
about it is his former wife,
Evening star., 1960-08-21
Other Books of The Week in Brief

liam Dumphy. Holt, Rine-
hart & Winston; So A
Christian adventure in
Moslem Morocco.
VIEW FROM THE NINTH
DECADE. BY j. C. Penny.
Nelson: $500 A book of
sage advice on the prin-
clpleS Of business success.
THE WORLD OF HALDE-
MAN JULIUS. Compiled
by bert Mordell.
CTWayne: 50 Selected
writings of Haldeman-
Julius.
Evening star., 1960-08-21
PAPER BACKS

BEYOND THE MEXIQUE
BAY. BY Aldous Huxley.
Vintage; Sl.25.l Informal
journal about his travels
through Central America
and Mexico in the early
30s. Reprint.
PLATO GORGIAS. Transla-
ton by w. Hamilton.
penguin, 95c.)