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eral war is unlikely because
an attack on the West does
not suit Russian or Commu-
mist interests"
The Leaders
To him, the most irnpor-
tant contrast with the Europe
Of a quarter of a century ago,
is that Khrushchev is not,
like Hitler, who in the 30s
was dominating events, "a
criminal lunatic." "Khru-
shchev," says Mr.. Gunther,
''iS a man who can be ex-
traordinarily rude, crude and
disagreeable, quite capable of
losing his temper, but he is
not a madman."
Mr.. Gunther's pen-pictures
of the old gentlemen who are
running the continent are
fascinating. He tells Of Ade-
nauer, still full of sap and
sting; of De Gaulle, posi-
lively lunar. although not
necessarily cold" Who else
has reported that Macmillan
has posted in his own hand
writing on the doorway to
the cabinet room at 10 Down
ing street, a line from "The
Gondoliers": Quiet, Calm
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THE DEATH OF GOD: The
Culture Of Our Post Chris
tian Era. BY Gabriel Va
hanian. George Braziller;
5000
DR.. Gabriel Vahanian, now
assistant professor of re-
ligion at Syracuse University.
is a Frenchman who has had
his training in theology at
the Sorbonne and the Prince
ton Theological Seminary.
The thesis of his present
book, developed with consid-
cradle CONTINGENCIES, is that
God is dead because the
faithful. though still satu-
rated in faith, have lost the
proclivity and the ability to
doubt. Lord. I believe; help
Thou my unbelief!" is mean
ingless to today's Christians,
who like kline, he thinks, are
blessed in that they chew
their cuds, and whose faith
is perfect, though nebulous,
and no longer a prey to
doubt.
DR.. Vahanian surveys the
present state of what he calls
post Christian culture both
as it is observable in the
writings of our times most
articulate writer's and as it
can be seen in the beliefs and
actions of the common run
of mankind that calls itself
Christian. The evidence he
finds is that the world today
is not so much anti Christian
as quite uninterested in
Christianity. God will take
care of the future: life is in
the hands of those who are
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The Western Story in
SprowIing BurIesque

continent as Don Quixote's
horse. Maj. Patton marries
Maria.
Now I am sure that a nym-
phomaniac is a proper hero
Inc of a comic novel, but I
question whether a family of
them, a whole strain of them,
is not in danger of taking the
edge off the readers delight.
There is nothing erotic in
Condon's book, which is
doomed to be as chaSte as an
elderly Sunday-school teach
er, since a bevy Of nympho-
maniacs reduces sex to SYM
Dol. Maj. Patton's two adopted
sons compromise the reputa-
ton of their foster sister,
Evalina. whereupon the major
deviseS a series of Herculean
contests to decide which boy
will redeem the girls honor.
It's quite funny, at least it's
all very breathless, but I
think the whole story would
Tor wild be better suited to
a technicolor movie than to
drab print.
The book contains an as
sortment of incidental stories
to bolster up the main plot.
The best of them concerns a
passionate lover of cheese
who attempts to win his girl
by impressing her father with
his extraordinary ability as
a cheese-taster. Another, in
which rival cattle thieves are
thwarted only when there is
no more room on the calves
hides to falsify brands, is an
example of Condon's labored
playfulness. ID. T.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW gssFssssSs
The EorIy Novel
In Literature
By DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

JOSEPH ANDREWS by Henry Fielding. "a New American
Library Paperback; so centsO
The English anthropoogist Lord Raglan in one of his
books made the pregnant observation that
many creations of mankind from beginning uniformed
and primitive actually reach their period of highest formal
complication and perfection extremely early their history
He cites language for example development during
recorded time has been of corruption and mpfcaon
an individual or committee at very early period devised
modal auxiares the pluperfect subjunctve and other
artfcalities which Immediately were subject to
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THE DESTRUCTION OF

THE DESTRUCTION OF
THE EUROPEAN JEWS.
BY Raul Hilberg. Quad
rangle Books; $14.95 until
September 30; thereafter
$17.50.)
In the spring of 1888 Ger
many took the first govern
mental steps that eventually
let to the murder of at least
5 million Jews. The Nurem-
berg trials that followed Ger
many's defeat in the second
World War and more re-
Gently William L. Shirer's
history of the Third Reich
and Adolph Eichmann's trial
in Israel have brought the
monstrous deeds of the Nazis
before the world.
Now Raul Hilberg, a 81
year old political scientist,
adds to the literature of the
Nazi terror a brilliant STEP
by-step study of how Ger
many went about destroying
European Jewry. Rather
than focusing on the fate
that befell the victims, he
uses the vast record of the
war crime trials, captured
Nazi documents and innu-
merable other sources to re-
late how the Germans went
about their grim task.
Fatal Steps
Carefully he explains the
steps that led to death. First
was a decree defining a mon
Aryan," then came expro-
priation of Jewish property,
the concentration of Jews,
and the last step, their ami
hilation.
"The destruction of the
jews" writes Prof. Hilberg,
"did not proceed from a basic
plan. No bureaucrat in 1888
could predict what kind of
measures would be taken in
1885, nor was it possible in
1885 to foretell decisions
Evening star., 1961-07-30
Too Perfect
To Be True
WINNERS AND LOSERS. BY
Martin Quigley. q. B.
Lippincott Co.; $3.50

A rare thing in this world
today is a young man who
does not pity himself, who
returns with honor from the
service to a well-paying job
and seemingly has no prob
lens at all that he can't
handle.
Damon Mitchell, hero Of
this novel, is such a man.
He is sort of an adult Frank
Merriwell-a good athlete, a
good soldier, a good construc-
ton executive, in fact. a good
everything.
Damon actually emerges as
a devoted conformist. When
he gets into trouble in the
Army, Damon becomes as CT
as the book demands. When
his father loses his job, Da-
mon gives up all pleasure
and his girl to save the money
for his family. When his
boss advises against dating
the office girls, Damon
obliges. When his brothers
widow wants to remarry,
Damon finances the deal
and takes over the guardian
ship of his nephew. When
his beloved's husband is about
to return to town from the
wars, Damon gives her the
air without a second thought.
In short, Damon is Just
too good to be true. It is
hard to believe in a character
who. alone in this world, is
without faults.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
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trates for US how much more
later writer's made of the
same tale. as he acknowledges
in an Introduction that sums
up what is known about the
who, when. where, and why
of Aesop. For good measure,
he has translated-for the
first time-the Pierpont Nor
gan Library's manuscript
Life Of Aesop."
If the Appendix stuffed
with morals was an after.
thought, it apparently wasn't
the only one. The photograph
said to appear in the Intro
duction serves instead as
frontispiece, and the title
page vignette" has been
shifted to the endpapers!
ARTHUR COLLINS.
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Science Fiction
Moves Ahead
With the Times
STRANGER IN A STRANGE
LAND. BY Robert Helm.
lein. putnam; $4.50O


People are prone to re-
gard science fiction as a.
bastard art fit only for comic
book publication. There Is
some basis for this feeling
considering the amount OF
trash produced under that
heading. But there have
been several important and
powerful works like Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World"
and novels by H. G. Wells,
Jules Verne, George Orwell,
and others.
Robert A. Heinlein's 'Stran-
ger in a Strange Land" is
additional proof that science
fiction can be good literature.
The story centers around a
human, born on Mars and
raised by an alien civiliza-
ton. His parents. who died
on the planet. were part of
the first "terran" expedition
there. A quarter of a CEN
tury later a second expedition
discovers the boy and takes
him to earth. The Man
From Mars" finds himself in.
a frightening society which
he does not comprehend.
Incredibly Credible
What unfolds is potent So
cial criticism that slaps at
human ideas of morality, re-,
ligion, politics and love;
caresses cannibalism, sexual
promiscuity, suicide and an
archy-and manages to re-
main incredibly credible! It
is as cynical as George Ber-.
nard Shaw and, luckily for its
readers, comparably witty.
The story is set in the fu-
ture but its caricature civili-
cation retains enough of q
resemblance to today's So
ciety to stimulate thought in
some. entertain others and,
undoubtedly, enrage many
with its implications.
Summed UP, it is an imag-
inative. barbed and bitter
sweet fantasy that may well
become a science fiction
classic, improve the prestige
OF science fiction and make
Mr.. Heinlein some money
"a practice at which his book
pokes fun. p.
WARREN BASS. s-
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Explorer Bering
THE HAUNTED JOURNEY.
By Robert Murphy. (Dou-
bleday; $3.50


bleday; $3.50
Vitus Bering was a Dane in
the employ of a Russian
czar. A strait and Bering Is
land testify to the success of
his mission in the discovery
Of Alaska and the great archi-
pelago. But Bering died be-
fore he could be aware of his
success and a lieutenant
basked in the glory. The ex-
pedition was haunted by de-
feat because of the enormity
of the assignment and be-
cause of the political frus-
trations that worked against
it. Bering and his men had
to move overland 5000 miles
before they could even begin
the construction of their
ships on Kamchatka.
The senior editor of the
Saturday Evening Post has
written a story wilder than
any fiction, all of it based
upon factual material.
III. A. LYON.
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Congress Might Find
These Quite Useful

Senator Goldwater's next
speech on taxes.
The next time labor and
management try to reject
arbitration, Secretary Gold
berg might remind them O.;
the gudgeon who tried to
separate quarreling dolphins
and whales only to be told,
Thanks, but we'd rather die
fighting one another than
have you as a mediator" OF
course he would need to make
his sarcasm obvious, for that
little fable can be read two
ways.
Disarmament?
Any debate on disarma-
ment might be the livelier for
the story of the lion who
asked to marry the farmers
daughter. Told that he must
first submit to having his
teeth pulled and his claws cut
off, the lion agreed-his love
was so great. But when he
came back a gentler beast,
the farmer was now con-
temptuous of him and chased
him off with a club" At that
point the Opposition might
rise and cite Aesop, too-with
the fable of the plant reed
who survived the storm that
uprooted the oak who could
only stand firm.
Later Writer'S Views
Professor DAILY, to be sure,
had another purpose in mind.
He wanted to give us versions
Of the original Greek fables
translated with little of the
artificiality of literary or
rh e oil ical pretentiouSness,
yet free from colloquialism."
Though I cavil at his THE
Turtle and the Rabbit" in
stead of The Tortoise and
the Hare" "a change that
overlooks the differences be-
tween hares and rabbits, he
has done what he set out to
do. His accuracy often illus
Evening star., 1961-07-30
John Gunther Sees
A Different Europe
By MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

Twenty-Five later, John Gunther has gone back
inside Europe and come out with INSIDE EUROPE TODAY"
(Harper; $495 marvellous pudding of packed solid
with facts personalities and generalizatons
Mr.. Gmther is reporter with all qualifications: A
mania for information the ability give back in clear and
lively terms and-the mark of true pro-a real communi-
cable zes for his work. No ylst establishes between
himself and his reader a confidential relationship
He is moreover in the present volume and at this
moment comforting His most important conclusion: Gen
Evening star., 1961-07-30
A TALENT FOR LOVING.
BY Richard Condor. (Mc-
Graw-Hill; $4.95.)

n AAA6N rOh LOVING.
BY Richard Condor. (Mc-
Graw-Hill; $4.95)
Richard Condon's "A Tai
ent for Loving" is a sprawling
burlesque Of the hoary West
ern standard - the Texas
family whose wealth is meas
ured in acres by the tens of
thousands and in longhorns
by the million. It is devoid of
satire or wit, but its unpre-
tentious good humor saves it
from being a trashy novel; it
is rather an easy-going and
amiable one.
Maj. Patton, q shrewd, not
quite-honest gambler, faster
on the draw than any gun
man known to Hollywood,
life, or classic Western fic-
ton, establishes a cattle en-
pire in Texas-an empire
that dwarfs in its magnitude
and wealth any Of which the
real Texas can boast, but one
which is in its turn dwarfed
by the ancestral empire of
Jose Vicuna, whose lineage is
traced back to the days of
Cortes. Don Jose and his
beautiful daughter Maria live
under the centuries-old curse
OF Montezuma, whom a fore
bear had tried to dupe into
believing that the great god
Quetzalcoatl was in fact little
more than a stupendous
lecher. The curse is that
every female member of the
house shall, upon losing her
innocence, become a nympho-
maniac, and every man a rake
in comparison to whom Don
Giovanni must be called as
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Art Appreciation

AESTHETICS TODAY. Ed
tied by Morris Philipson.
meridian Books, $1.65.) A
presentation of essays by
philosophers. historians,
critics and social scientists
expressing modern atti-
tudes and arguments in the
field of artistic under
standing.
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AESOP WITHOUT MORALS.
BY Lloyd w. DAILY. (Thomas
YoSeloff. S5 Q5O

AESOP WITHOUT MORALS.
BY Lloyd w. DAILY. (Thomas
Yoseloff; $3.50
To most of us a fable
without a moral is like a
woman without a man. But
not to Prof. Lloyd DAILY of
the University of Pennsyl-
vania. who has Englished
Aesop out of the Greek and
cut off the moral tags. Then,
lacking the spirit of the boy
who stripped the labels off
his mothers food tins and
mixed them all up-or pos
sibly because at the eleventh
hour his scholarly respect for
unexpurgated texts asserted
itself - he pasted all the
morals with numbers keying
them to the fables) into an
appendix for "the studious or
the curious"
For Senator GOIdwater
What do you do with a
moral-less fable? What to
make of q diminished thing?
My suggestion is to make a
parlor game out of reading
the fables, invent your own
moral, and check your solu-
ton with the answer in the
back of the book. Or just
read the fables and apply
them to the problems of the
day. I foresee grand posi-
hilities for congressional rhet-
oric. Take the case Of the
sheep who turned on his
shearer and exclaimed. IF
you want my wool, don't cut
so close, but if it's my meat
you're after, just cut my
throat and stop this slow
torment" It's a natural for
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Eros Was Ever Present
In the Library

which, we give our guarded
assent.
Apt reference throughout
elucidateS and reinforces the
central thesis. But since this
humane erudition Is never
Haunted, a more generous
admission of debt to C. S.
Lewis "Allegory of Love"
would have been graceful.
PHILIP HERZBRUN,
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BIOGRAPHY
GENERAL

WHERE THE LION TROD.
BY Gordon Shepherd. (St.
Martins: $4.50. Paw
marks made by the British
lion during its 200-year
trek through India, which
are still apparent today.
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THE SECRET GIFT. BY A.
E. johnson doubleday;
$4.50). A step-brother and
sister aid each other in a
seemingly unreasonable and
unsympathetic world.
BIOGRAPHY
THE POOR OLD LIBERAL
ARTS. BY Robert I. Gan
non, S. ]. (Farrar, StrauS
and Cudahy; 50. A Ford
ham University president
views in his memoirs the
changes in education from
the days when he sat on
the other side of the lee
turn until the present.
A CREW OF TWO. BY Beth
Eberhart. Doubleday:
$4.50). A husband and wife
team turn to fishing for a
living off the Alaskan
coast.
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that this proposal is no less a
form Of support than grants
and is equally prohibited by the
Constitution"
The memo noted that In the
McCollum case the Supreme
Court declared unconstitutional
the provision Of clasSrooms in
a public school for religious in
struction during released
time"
mo measurable cost to the
Government was involved in
the use Of such facilities" the
memo noted, yet the court
held that the use nonethelesS
constituted assistance to re-
ligion low interest, across
the-board construction loans
do provide measurable eco
nomic benefit to religious inSti-
tutions.
Moreover, there is q total
failure in this proposal to dis.
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of a school which are involved
with religious teaching anc
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those which may not be. This
combination Of factors when
applied to elementary and Sec
ondary schools places the pro-
posal beyond the limits Of per-
misSible assistance"
Higher Warning
The memo also examined the
constitutionality Of the admin
istration's proposals for college
scholarships and construction
loans to both private and pub
lie institutions Of higher learn
ing and decided that no conSti-
tutional problems were involved
In these measures.
It noted that the history Of
higher education was almost
precisely the opposite" Of gram
mar and high school education
in this country and said that
private institutions, even those
with religious affiliations, have
always and properly shared In
Federal programs to assist edu-
cation.