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A Regular Wednesday Feature of The Times

THE FIRST READER . . .

By Harry Hansen

~ Taylor Bares. Incompetency Of Hitler Who Guided Nazi Destiny, Trapping Himself

"MEN AND POWER." By He Mead, $3.

but no one | Jor's new hook, “Men and Power,”

onstration of how absolute power corrupts absolutely, and of how fdiocy ruined a modern nation. It is also the first account of rushing to ruin by telephone. Bitting in a huge cone-shaped bomb shelter, Hitler sent men dashing around the fronts in Germany by phone. Airfields were torn up, roads were impassable, radio was onesided. But the phone was there and into it Hitler shouted his incredible orders. » ” s FOR INSTANCE, Gestapo Oberst won Grief telephones Hitler: “Army Group Mitte has objected to operations by K. G. 4 in the Berlin area, as ordered by the Fuehrer.” Hitler: “The commanding general is sentenced to eath” + q Explains Taylor: “Wi ours Hitler not th reversed this decision, but appointed the officer commander of all armies in the

nty J. Taylor. New York, Dodd,

THERE IS probably no story in military annals as weird and fantastic as that of Hitler's final days and hours. Other commanders and governments no doubt disintegrated amid bewildering confusion, recorded their antics. The chapter in Henry J. Tay-

which he calls “Hitler's Last Days

Alive,” is a mosaic of what the survivors remembered, a terrible dem-

with Jodl and other officers and read Hitler's telephone message intercepted by the Americans. Out of them he has constructed this account, Henry J. Taylor is, by the evidence of this book, a lively gent. He jumps from one c#pital to another, buttonholes prime ministers and presidents and invterviews in quick succession a live wire like Patton, a haughty general like Montgomery and a humane man like the Pope. In Finland President Ryti’ tells him about his fears of Russia— fears completely justified later, and in Madrid Sir Samuel Hoare tells him, on Dec. 1, 1941, that Washington agrees that it will take 20 American divisions to land in Africa, but that American public opinion needs something like a German bombing before it will act. » »

southern zone.” “Whe can you do with a man like this?” says Jodl to Dr. Morrel, Hitler's physician. “Nothing,” says Dr. Morrel to Jodl. .

» 8 ” HERE is another revelation of the complete inecompetency of the man who guided Germany's destiny. When Jodl describes the onrush and superior equipment of the Russians, Hitler says: “The Russians will not advance further.” He surmises the Russians must have a bridge over the Oder. Jodl says: “There is no—bridge.” Hitler says: #1 do not believe you? When Hitler gets word that townspeople in the path of Gen. Eisenhower's army are hanging out white flags and surrendering, Hitler says: “Most of the white flags in the west are being hung out by The Germans are not doing that.” Thus, at bay, “trapped and snarling,” he fooled himself,

. ” » MR. TAYLOR interviewed Goer-

» MR. TAYLOR is contemptuous of our relief methods in Italy, feels them misplaced, and sees political hacks and Communists taking credit for what we give and others yelping because America has not kept her promises, Italy, says he, cannot support its people and most of them do not worry about supporting themselves. Power and compulsion as a system of government do not pay in the long run, Mr, Taylor says, declaring that if the Soviet Union continues in its “war-gnaking propaganda at home and tfie castigation of‘ democracies abroad” it will meet the same fate as Hitler's reich. While war-weary people take what governments are offered, just to get peace, “brute force without sublime intelligence falls by its own weight.” He adds that “Russia now faces many of the identical problems Hitler faced in his early years in power,” and that Russia's people must be economically free to suc-

ing soon after his capture, talked

ceed in peace.

New Fan Nichols Novel Proves Substantial Story

"POSSESS ME NOT." A novel. By Fan Nichols. New York, Frederick Fell. $2.75.

ERIK NORGARD, painter, is quite a guy. One of the two women who ultimately come into conflict over him describes him as “a blond, tanned, blue-eyed Norse god. Here stands six feet two inches of elemental + male. What a magnificent pagan lover!” That's how Erik impresses Mi¢hele Bruce, photographer whose studio is just below his in New York's east 20's. Michele and Erik are on easy, bohemian terms. She comes up and starts coffee for him in the morning, realizing that she's wasting good years on him. . s » . FOR ERIK hates to be tied down. Yet, on page 10, he meets Mary Vallant at an exhibition of his paintings. He's struck by what he describes as “her tan-gold hair, her brown-lashed hazel eyes, her egg-shell skin.” Mary's from Ohio and wants no part of the artist's traditional “La Boheme” casualness. So Erik and

Mary get married and have a hectic,

extravagant European honeymoon, into which Erik throws his entire capital of ‘$20,000, earned from his painting.

Describes an artist . . Fan Nichols.

Titles of Latest Pocket Books Listed

non-fiction, four fiction®¥items.

BACK IN New York, Mary nas July Debut Set

Erik's {irregular life wearing (he!

likes to work at night, to eat when! For New Digest

he’s hungry, to entertain a studioful of clamorous and fairly alcoholic musicians and artists at all hours

of the night).

Tapestry,” by Olive Ewing Clapper

beloved, untidy city studio and| "*" is a feature of Book-Reader settle him in a sedate country place|"¢V digest magazine.

in Connecticut. That ambunts to

cutting Samson's hair,

loses his desire and ability to|its debut. into alin

paint, sinking gradually serious nervous breakdown. \ » J o MISS NICHOLS does some of he best writing towards the end of th

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Latest Pocket Books received by! The Times book page Her. two |

"WHAT I'D DO'—

Vital Issyes Are Unsolved By Shooting

"| KNOW WHAT I'D DO." A” novel. By Alice Beal Parsons. New York, Dutton. $2.50.

JT MAY be a little late to tell

soldier returns from nc war and

debauched his wife. The news wires have carried reports of the ensuing - tragedies, and we have chalked them up as, part of the cost of war, and passed on. But the problems of human be-

news is out. There are still imchologist and the social student, and often the novelist takes on both their jobs. That is why Alice Beal Parsons’ novel on this very theme, “I Know What I'd Do,” raises several vital questions. ” 5 » IT ASKS how far a veteran is statutes when he takes the law into his own hands. Is public opinion with him if he kills the man who

at this time what happens when a |’

discovers that a stay-at-home has) §&

havior in volved in such a catas-| trophe are not solved when the|p

portant tasks ahead for the psy-|#8

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Business book experts . .

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ~ Reference-Book Service Offered

. Miss Ethel Cleland (right), founder and head of the Business branch of the Indianapolis Public library, discusses with her chief assistant, Mrs. Charles Wells, one of the 300 or more specialized periodicals the branch subscribes to. With over freed from the operation of thef 11,000 volumes, the Business branch, at 150. N. Meridian st., offers remarkably varied reference-book service, *

rest on the woman, who was adult {and able to recognize right from | wrong? | Mrs, Parsons, a better student of social behavior than a novelist, | puts the issue rather bluntly. | Al Miller returns from the war to a little Hudson river town, pleased to have his wife, Sally, back again. But Sally is in trouble. | During Al's absence she submitted |

of Jim Phelan, who ran a sporting | goods store,

n ” n HER RESPONSIBILITY lay in the weakness of the flesh. When | pregnancy resulted Phelan urged an illegal operation and then refused to settle che doctor's bill. Sally's confession puts the matter up to Al, who is already under pressure from public opinion. I miss the surge of emotion with which such a tragedy would be] accompanied in life. Mrs. Parsons) describes Sally's accusation against] Phelan, and Al Miller's attack on the man, with the objectivity of a police report. Miller acts with deliberation, and this is put forward at his trial as, a mitigating circumstance. Actually, this murder in cold blood, not in the heat of passion. There is an attempt to show that he consulted the police before | taking things into his own hands. {But even so, the novelist seems to | believe that Miller was justified lin taking the steps he did.

» = » THIS LEADS me to wonder how far that spirit of “I know what I'd do; rests on the failure of courts to perform their functions. A returning soldier is no ‘more outside the law than any civilian, |In this instance he had time to think things over. There was a heavy burden likewise on the community and on Phelan himself. Mrs. Parsons works the opinion of the community into her story, but fails to come to grips with the problem of the Phelans—the men who get around the conventions as the racketeers get around the laws. There is a big job tp be done by novelists on the protected villains in American life, and the issue 1s not settled by shooting them.—H. H.

Attempt to Block Book Is Charged

Creative Age Press, Inc, pub{lishers of “Blood in the Streets,” reviewed on today's Times’ book page, charge that attempts have

“Baby and Child Care,” by Ben-| been made by the Trujillo family jamin Spock, M. D, and “Devils,

Drugs and Doctors,” by Howard H. According to the published Ai Haggard, M. D., are the nop-fiction) 25 Y Hicks’ biography of she™Do-

titles. “Whiteoaks of Jalna,” by “scandalous, defamatory and libelMazo de la Roche; “The Benson | ous” in numerous letters addressed Murder Case,” by 8. 8. Van Dine; | to book sellers in the New York “Death Turns the Tables,” by John |and Washington areas. Dickson Carr, and “Steele of the Royal Mounted,” by James Oliver |Karl 8. Lowenthal, attorney for Curwood are the fiction offerings.| Mrs. Flor de Oro Trujillo Stehlin,

to suppress the book.

| minican dictator has been labelled

The publishers also charge that

| the Dominican president's daughter “and her family,” are attempting to suppress the book “through threats and intimidation without resort to suit.”

Representing the publishers is

A condensation of “Washington|aorris Ernst, internationally fam-

ous lawyer,

|widow of Times Columnist Ray- | After their first child is born and | mond Clapper, who w

Mary is expecting Pacific lan f I another, she e ‘ident ur ing the | pia acc n d i O Ba na b

as killed in a Plan Stage Version

| y' Comic

| Henry Holt & Co. publishers of | “Barnaby” and “Barnaby and Mr.

stage production will be followed shortly by a movie version,

novel, the outcome of which involves I

of neatly managed sur

you get a good runnin

reading “Possess Me Not,” over the cliches and soapsuggestions of the earlier sitdialog to a pretty good, story.

BOOK should have been

edited. Erik

I of the difficult, ken years when he was to paint,’ welcomes him

'Open House’

"OPEN HOUSE." Co. $2.50.

By Joan Ka

Independence with a capital I.

of 1946,

of two young women who leave col

the world.

lege and go out to make a place in

| The story of the two girls’ work, "romances and their petty travels along from a rather [of “Pride

Good Book

For a School Girl's Library

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Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott 'H

By DONNA MIKELS There's a slight “The Tootsy Twins Go Into the World” tinge that 'g clings all the way through this novel about two career

girls who want

. The story is set against a sophisticated New York background, but it’s handled as Jane Austen might have written of business girls, vintage |

There's nothing to indicate the book was written for juvenile con | . | Sumption, but as such it makes fair reading. From an adult standpoint, | uneventful path to an uneventful there’s a more than slightly unreal touch to the story of growing pains

conclusion. “Open g House,” is written in a clear, concise style and would make

a nice addition to a high school girl's library. For adults, however,

ang Prejudice.”

it's almost a step back to the gaysy

"LOVE FOR EACH OTHER."

New York, Creative Age Press.

novel.

“Love for Each Other” is the story of one of those remarkable to the slightly unwelcome advances ¢. ijjes of mixed foreign parentage who have supplied such excellent

material for British novelists.

Reared in London, five children of a Russian father and a

mother are intense and matical people. Devoted to each other, and yet fiercely independent, the children] resent their father's hot-tempered| though well meant efforts to advise] and interfere. . | Their home atmosphere is [ull of what psychologists call “ambiva-| |

proble-

| lence”—that curious alternation of|

love and hatred that complicates so many family relationships. * = ” PAUL, the eldest son, who wants to be a painter but lacks talent, marries young. In less than a year, he deserts his Irish wife and goes to Paris to study art. He forms a liaison with Marta, a| rich, elderly woman with Fascist affiliations, *

For obscure reasons, involving] perhaps the frustration that in| some people produces aggressive | cruelty, he joins up with De la} Rocque's pre-war Fascist plug- | uglies for almost nightly exploits of | mayherh against what he terms “Communists,” meaning mitellee- | tuals and avowed anti-Fascists. Robert, the second son and the] narrator, seems to have fewer ad-| justment problems than the rest of | the children. His sister, Felice, re- | bellious against parental sugges-| tions and resenting the very love! that binds her to the family, has a| series of eccentric admirers, ending | with a middle-aged Italian profes- | sor of philosophy. ” » » THE TWINS, almost Siamese in| their mutual dependence, can! scarcely function separately. Lucy| is the stronger of them, but every | time she attempts to lead her own! life—every time she gets nverested in a new suitor—her twin brother, | Ivan, goes haywire. Although both are aware of the crippling interdependence, neither can successfully break away. Ivan goes to visit Paul in Paris, Marta, with her pathetic but somewhat sinister hunger for youth, accepts him as Paul's successor. The dramatic and tragic denouement is not altogether unexpected. Mr. Glemser's novel is well shaped, well organized. His characters seem both credible and important, And he has dealt successfully with a theme requiring tact and restraint.—H. B.

Putnam's to Publish Curtis War Analysis

G. P. Putnam's Sons announce the publication next Friday of] “World War—Its Cause and Cure,” | by Lionel Curtis. The book is described as a “distinguished contribution” to the cause of peace,

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DICTATOR INDICTED— Hicks Strips Trujillo of - Braid and Hide

“BLOOD IN THE STREETS." By Albert’ C. Hicks, New York, Creative Age Press. $2.75.

By SHERLEY UHL THIS IS a 230-page indictment against Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, stripped of his braid (and

hide) by an American newsman. Trujillo, president of the Dominican republic, is charged oy Albert Hicks with murder, wholesale and retail. Mr. Hicks accuses the island strong man of responsibility for the mass execution of some 20,000 Haitians and numerous individual slayings involving a welter of - Pan-American intrigue. Depending on its circulation, this biography may or may not embarrass ‘our thick-skinned state department, which, by some feat of diplomatic hocus-pocus, considers Trujillo a good neighbor. ' ” n AS MR. HICKS points out, this is North America's “good neighbor” dilemma: Our non-interven-tion pledge places us in the dubious position of benignly condoning the very practices we condemn. In rather stilted journalese, Mr. Hicks relates Trujillo's progress (or retrogression) from a juvenile delinquent to a ruler who compares himself favorably. with God. All the assorted devices by which dictatorships are established and maintained are herein detailed. Particularly illuminating is a chapter disclosing Trujillo's cAmpaign to propagandize America inte regarding him as a benefactor of mankind.

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‘| lions of dollars from his own sub-

jects, Trujillo, Hicks hints darkly, also has designs on Haiti. This theme is climaxed in an account of the massacre of 20,000 Haitians on the Haitian-Dominican border. in 1937. . . “Blood in the Streets” is an admittedly prejudiced biography and is limited to that extent. In many respects it is grossly oversimplified. For instance, Hicks implies that the Dominican republic is enslaved by the wiles and artifices of a single man—Trujillo. Actually, Trujillo is a product of Latin America's cultural soil, and his prototypes can be found strewn all through South America’s sanguinary history. s LJ » TRUJILLO didn't make the Dominican republic what it is today. But the Dominican republic, as-

sisted by tradition, made Trujillo. Civilization as it is now constituted is the villain, and Trujillo is one of its minor abortions.

___ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1946

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ANN BRIDGE can always be expected to strike out for herself in an original way when she writes a novel, and her latest, “Singing Waters,” 1s no exception,

Her story deals with the renewal of interest in life of a young widow, Gloire Thurston, daughter of an English father and an American mother, and beneficiary of a goodsized income, Her husband had enjoyed mountain climbing, and going with him as a bride, she had felt its exhilaration, too. Then he had died, because of an injury and neglect, and her interest in life had become listless, ” o » NILS LARSEN, a Swedish expert on factories, traveling in Europe for the International Labor Office, was the first to shake her lethargy and arouse her interest in outside matters. . But if the reader expects a new romance, he is in for what may bew a happy or unhappy surprise, depending on how much he likes this novel. ~ » ” THE TRANSITION of the action to Albania is original, and the story becomes, in a way, a guide to Albanian life, seen through the eyes of four or five characters. The reader may find talk about customs, administration and social structure an intrusion in a novel, but hardly if he takes the story on' Miss Bridge's terms. She holds the interest on a higher level than that of love-making, and if, in consequence, the story lacks intensity, it cannot be said to lack knowledge of people and places.—

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