Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1948 — Page 8

ce Amends ner Crimes, Issue re Excellent Novels "A novel. By Stefan Heym. Boston, Little, A novel. By Elizabeth Spencer.

“by issuing good novels for the fall trade. Thus they hearten our spirits with William Maxwell's fine novel of ‘small-town family life. “Time Will Darken It”; they give us a guide to-colonial America in Hervey

the daughter of a steel magnate, confront each other and spill

posure of its dirty linen.

“Hostages,” azi novel, which was filmed, with a William Bendix and Lalse Rainer 2 LIF the principal parts Mr, Heyr ‘8 novels a the war invariably|second novel. “Of Smiling Peace,” dealt with its violent dis-lwas less successful axtistically,

He is Dow 35 years old. : FAMILY FEUDS and antagon-

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they smolder like a fire

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to some members of a family cherthey have to|ishing resentment while others

carry on superficial gocial intercourse,

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andl. yn 1942 Mr. Heym published an excellent anti-|

that does not burst into flame;|

analytical and documented study of the destruction of the German

“Stalin and German Communism;

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vard University, where the hook 'lwas prepared for English publication.

who was a member of the Reich-

German Communist party, raember of the Comintern and acquainted with all the leaders of the Russian Revolution.

no less terrible account of how the present dictatorship killed the German labor unions, distorted

ermany nationalist and Communist ex-

pansion. “Stalin and German Communism” should stand behind Trotsky's “The Russian Revolution” Re rst-hand testimony tie pment of communism politicians as a victory for deAlthough a bit heavy Ee es acy, "aL merely a Stalinist © [read by » a 8 nt tag IP! aware oy OARS thelor the Stalinist police force its policies on the conspiratorial means.

flapping belts, once familie

WHEN STEAM RULED—Adolf Dehn's painting, from the Encyclopedia Britannica's collection of contemporary American paintings, vividly recalls the days of cumbersome, fire-hazardous steam tractors with their long,

r in farm scenes.

"Threshing in Minnesota,”

ORIGINS OF THE STATE Cambridge, Mass, Harvard

In the United States woliny) Ruth Fischer publishes a keenly

Communist party by Secretary|General Stalin, beginning in 1926. Ruth Fischer's work is called

A Study in the Origins of the State Party.” It contains a bisketch of the author

by Prof. ’Sidney B. Fay of Har-

" » . “IT WAS written by a woman

stag, secretary of the original

It is a detailed, undramatic but

ONCE A COMMUNIST fire-| brand in Berlin and sow a bitter his own inner machine by per- _ Such hater of the Stalinist dictatorship sonal contacts, spreading the ima Situation is he starting}, Ruth Eisler Fischer, Austrian- pression that he was a military born sister of Hans and Gerhard leader by his costume. Eisler,

genius” prevailed.

and then the next, group by STOUP, Mish DY nah.

moralize, bribe, eliminate

«x|Author Tells of Russian Plot To Spread Doctrine in Reich

“STALIN AND- GERMAN COMMUNISM: A STUDY IN THE

PARTY." By Ruth Eisler Fischer. University Press, $8.

She describes how he formed

Old House Site in Novel

“THE SECRET THREAD." A novel. By Ethel Vance. New York, Harper, $2.75.

STONE wrote her famous bestseller, a pen name, Ethel Vance.

any hitherto drawn that one munist.

lessness, she makes Lenin a man who led solely by argument and who dreaded the approach of a totalitarian state. Ruth Fischer says Lenin defeated his comrades by rigorous logic; he did not have “the threat of a GPU standing behind his chair.” But “In our times the model of totalitarian power is a state, governed by the disciplined hierarchy of a state party and its secret police.” Lenin, from his deathbed, tried to prevent Stalin's succession, but the latter's “manipulatory

» T0 MARE Ringlt supreme Stalin “had to seize power within the power machine, first one part

He had to isolate, vility, dethreaten and all competitors and as ts to competition.” of the Comintern in 1926, widely hailed by Western

ts, and still better

purpose te to 1d by

..8 » ANYONE WHO has the pa-

tience to study the Fischer must become convinced of Sleepless interest of the Kremlin

in world affairs. Every issue, every movement,

every leader abroad is weighed with reference to the advantages for communism.

During Ruth Fischer's intimate

association with communism she

taining -what the publisher|received from Stalin’s lips plans Ibook ating sevelations” the/IoF fe Fone gs originally was brought out|unions; 8 ona has ‘Tech. Sgt. in England under the DUE “The about the United States in the into war aims, Other Side of the Hil" Politburo, where the Russians Me ey frankly acknowledged that America was now the leader of Lt. New Novel Due Soon the bourgeois opposition and the former professor| “Celeste,” a new novel by Rosa- citadel of financial strength.

mond Marshall, author of “Kitty” 3 and “Duchess Hotspur,” has been : a sn pPY climax injannounced for November publi- : ‘whieh two Women, a tramp andlcation by Prentice-Hall.

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She describes the distortions of

the truth regularly announced by the dictatorship; the false interpretations of Lenin's position; the lies built up against Trotsky, Zinoviey, Kamernev, Radek and Z|other leaders in order to give Stalin complete power.

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RUTH FISCHER'S portrait of, Lenin is so much milder than!

hardly recognizes himi as a ComIn order to show Stalin's ruth- 4

Many years ago, when she was a

relative acted. Ethel Vance For this purpose a woman of the boarding house picked a stagename for her. It was Ethel Vance. Memories of that house were in back of her mind when she began to write her latest story, “The Secret Thread,” under the name of Ethel Vange. - ” » THAT IS why the atmosphere of that old house is so vivid when

York from a war mission in Germany and, having a day to kill between trains, | looks for the old house. There it stands, on the|-—-west side, a dilapidated, weatherbeaten structure, amid ruins already laid low by wreckers. As Cassius Terhune walks about in the dusty old place, he recalls Aunt Minerva, who ran the boarding house for a miscellaneous lot of hams; Madame

tionalistie ist groups in other countries and mobilize the fragments into fifth columns and secret agents, says Ruth Fischer, Her book closes with 1929, after she, herself, had been expelled for

op) to the Stalin program. In laters@orks she will analyze, the gro of the totalitarian

state in Russia and Germany. -H., H.

Magazine Features 'The Golden Hawk’

“The Golden Hawk,” Frank Yerby's best-selling novel of Caribbean adventure, heads the list of abridgements in Omnibook for September. . Other books condensed in the pocket-size = magazine include: “Pilgrim's Inn,” by Elizabeth Goudge; “The Iron Curtain,” Igor Gouzenko's account. ‘of Soviet espionage, and “A Ghost Town on the Yellowstone,” Elliot Paul's reminiscences about the Old West.

New Wolfe Novel

A new Nero Wolfe novel, Rex Stout's “And Be a Villain,” will be published by Viking Sept. 27. Involved in the murder are “a lady broadcaster, a race track

‘and various and sundry characters, including, of course, Archie Goodwin—to say nothing of the entire New York police’ depart‘ment, i , according to the publisher.

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Golden, who sang in the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera and|__ a Jot of signed photogr from pelebrities on her walls, and ithe Morellis, silver trapeze artists, whose acrobatic thumps in practice shook the floors. Up to the attic room he climbs, and there starts a new kind of gangster story-—one with a romantie, philoscphie Twist to it.

about racketeers, this one is surprisingly mild. Ethel Vance gives the men an evil reputation, but we don’t see them at the ings. One of them does a little bullying, but he gets a long way from the sort of gangster lingo to which we are accustomed. Miss Vance's racketeers don't even swear, the girl in the story has only a veneer of toughness. I don’t criticize this mildness in an author; I am merely surprised at it. its own world. Miss Vance's imagination is not decumentary, but literary. If we don’t quite believe it, it's

by too much sadism, mutilation and sudden death. » » » * MISS VANOE is best in getting her chjef actor into his predica-| ___ ment, locating him in the old boarding house, But after the scene is set, and the suspense has been started thé story flattens out in talk. The ending is too easy for the author and leaves {the reader unsatisfied. —H. H.

‘Intruder in the Dust" Due on Sept. 27

“Intruder in pi Dust,” William Faulkner's 17th volume and his first novel since “The Hamlet” in 1940, will be published Sept. 127 by Random House,

murder and the mass mind, of an accused Negro whose guilt or innocence becomes secondary to the larger moral jusilce Hama? itself.”

Oxford Aid Revised Aid Revised

A completely revised and enlarged edition of “The Oxford

problems of

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ture,” will be published Sept. 30 by Oxford University Press. The iauthor, James D, Hart, has made more than 600 major changes, including over 100 new entries.

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