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THE FIRST READER .
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~ Former Yu ~ Ridicules Fumb
Of U.S: England ary Tito
“THE WAR WE LOST." J Constantin Fafiteh. New York. Viking,
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IT WAS all very funny
_ cotntry when Hitler and Stalin made their infamous pact in 1939. Jokes about sophistry of the party line were more plentiful than jokes about your mother-in-law. An incon-| sistency is always amusing—and what greater political in‘consistency has there ever been?
But who is laughing now? IT imagine the occupants of the Kremlin. They are probably. still chuckling occasionally) over British and American incon-| sistency regarding Tito. I gather this after reading Constantin Fotitch’s “The War We Lost,” which unfolds the embarrassing details of the fumbling policy pursued by Britain and the United States in . Yugoslavia during the war, The scale of our inconsistency was not so. great nor was. our
that of Stalin, but in Mr. Fotitch’s he] d
rym Allied Sxpesicney. Po MR. FOTITCH, Yugoslav min{ster and later ambassador to the U. 8. between 1935 and 1044, was sentenced in absentia to 20 years {son at the time of the MiPalioTiten trial for writing impassioned editorials against the Ustashi, Croat Fascists. His book 1s an impassioned editorial against communism and the dupltelty of the democracies.
He takes .the position that Chetnik|
guerrilla warfare against the Gerthans right after the pitifully weak afte the pitiful Weak Yaga 1041 with Allied hb have performed a be War service and at the same time preserved the country’s liberties. - 8. = . ‘AT THE start the British welcomed Mihatlovitch
and the U. 8.|
Atlantic Charter, Mr. Roosevelt
_|well-heralded event for mystery
* Goodwin. I them Strikes me thats
ling Policy
. By Robert W, Minton io Minister
in intellectual circles in this Eo
from Mihailovitch to. Tito, which! must have been that their mill-}° tary observers were not pressed with Mihailovitch’s ef-| feotiveness against the Germans.! They simply decided they'd get more for their money by 3 Tito, a move designed in part to please their great ally, Stalin.| Needless to point out, thiy got a great deal more than they bar~ gained for. They did more to establish communism in Yugoslavia than Russia did. . The U. 8. blandly followed the British lead. Mr. Fotitch, after many courteous references to Mr. Root evelt, finally gets it off his
found it understandable that in order to obtain Russian collaboration more than 90,000,000 civilized and self-respecting Eu-
ropeans should. be sacrificed to oN
the Soviets: MR.
. . is another one
of those Et Europeans, |
who was never soft on Russia.
Because England and America| §
were, he is most hard on us. Who tan say we don't deserve it? S—————————————
Back in Print
“AND BE A VILLAIN A novel|
.By Rex Stout. New York; Viking Press, $2.50. % By J. N. WILLIAMSON A NEW Nero Wolfe story is a
1905), will be included in a speci in Herron Art Museum to contin
Jor andrltalian art.
"Madogna and Child With Angels.” a owins by the Fgench artist William Saigiorass (1825+ “Angels of the Lord," . The "drawing -was a gift to the museum a few years ago from the collection of the late William H. Thompson, Iigianapuls lawyer and collector of
ial Christmas exhibition, ue through.Jan.
opening tomorrow
lovers. “And Be A Villain” proves no Sxmphian, The tale is & typical
Europe,” anticipation of Russia's appetite for small countries. He was more realistic about was “Frankin
the time, is that Mr. Churchill, against Mr. Hull's wishes, agreed with the | ~40. establish} Ruma influence in the Balkans. uss .. Romania, England] » Greece, Yugoslavia was. divided between them. What Mr. Fotitch does not explain is how Mr, Churchill could be so naive as to think that Yugoslavia was divided between Britain and Russia when Britain _had only | loken Jorcss with "Tito.
NOR DOES Mr. "Fotiteh adequately assay the basic cause for the British. propaganda shift
Wellman Novel Due
“The Chain,” a new novel by Paul Wellman to be published late next March by Doubleday, has been named April selection of the Literary Guild. Mr. novel of last year, “The Walls of Jericho” (Lippincott) .was the Sluld's selection for February,
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Wolfe, Archie, sug gests that he be hired to investi-. gate the murder of a racetrack broadcasting over the radio, In “And Be a Villain,” Wolfe astally makes the entire New ; j Jaros OEE Aor, Y
“REX STOUT Ts > Gative ‘Hoo-; sier, coming from Noblesville, where he was born sixty years ago. His varied professions, before turning to writing, included being a sailor, cook, bellhop, plumber’s assistant, “and hotel manage. - He turned out four psychological novels that were successful, before introducing the famous Wolfe-Goodwin team back in 1934. He declared, in a recent; letter to me: “My forbears were Indiana pioneers, and my poo
are scattered all over the state.”
I= Whom are” ruined ‘iy t of the play by the Civil ‘War.
roo relatives both -elose and-distant, repetitious, the dramatic element!
iPlay Written 10 Years Ago
“MANNERHOUSE."
A play. Harper, $3.
There has never been more
who died 10,
book. “Manner-
an anniversary ROW |} use, ” ‘one of his three plays, has been printed, and with it I suspect “iwe have reached the bottom of his trunk.
a8 8 3 THE PLAY was probably writ-|
ten in 1926, three years prior to the publication of “Look Home-
Angel,” and at that time, it
ward €iwas considered by Mr. Wolfe to be a work of some importance. However, it was never produced. ~hasNow Stages has promised to produce it this year and I hope it is better when viewed from an orchestra seat than when read.
=Mannerhouse™ is significant in|
nonautobiographical:
Mr. Wolfe’ A theme, “to express my passionate belief in all myth” ‘worked out a a a Confederate Eugene is Sided > ‘his LOYaRy
loyal ‘son E
It 1s more the sort of thing
IN THE hands of a skilled play-|
wright, “Mannerhouse” might a powerful play: Wolfe,-like many|a young man, writes a pretty good’ audience alone fora + minute. first act, but then he runs into|During the intermission between
rouble.
oie and grows
Wolfe's Dusty Trunk Yields | Marshall Plan
By Thomas Wolfe. New York,
i WHEN an ‘important literary figure dies there is often’ such! bustling about. in old trunks in his attic, where it is hoped will’ be {found some great manuscripts the author has for ome reason or another chosen to withhold fronf public perusal. ~~
fruitful bustling than that which
took place among the literary effects of Thomas Wolfe. pis prolific novelist, years ago, left behind millions of| unpublished words, which later! “Ibecame “The Web and the “You Can't Go Home Again” and “The Hills Beyond.” Now, as sort
becoming strained. An idea of considerable impor »/tance has been stated, but it has not béen supported by depth of drama to carry it out on the stage. It is a play by a novelist. After composing the play Mr. Wolfe wrote a letter in which he states that he was trying to show “the necessity of defending and living—not for truth—but for divine falsehood.” The divine falsehood of Gen.
cavallers were aristocrats, ordained by God as superior, blessed by God with black slaves. a : EUGENE IS unable to accept {this state of things and when asked to fight in support of a tHe; he-momentarily refuses. But nis 1 father, the general, is such isa commanding person that
=a,
really of it. But Mr. Wolfe, un-
William Faulkner might write. like’ Eugene, could cut the-cord, The mood is somber without relief, Otherwise he might have been a and the plot moves slowly to an regional writer. rend that: is symbolic. but. highly, elodramptie.
There are indications in “Mannerhouse” of the prolixity whigh {bedeviled all of Wolfe's writing. His stage directions are lengthy land mannered., “In facthe wont Jeave- -the
{the first and second acts his
ws and tramping feet “behind the curtain, R. W. M.
The bearded Stout is a wit, as| demonstrated ‘in the muchreprinted “Watson Was a Woman” which “proved” Sherlock's biographer was feminine. Mr. Stout vesides in New York State with his wife and daughters. Of the new book, he said, in {the same letter; “That story makes monkeys of those who claim that Poe dnd Doyle’thought of everything and that all we do nowadays is to follow their forBah. Neither Poe nor Doyle thought of having the victim croaked while broadeasting on a nation-wide network. I did.”
Background Of War To Be Published
“Documentary Background “of World War II, 1951 to 1941.” compiled and edited by James W. Gantenbein. will be published next Thursday by Columbia -University Press. According to “the documents,
the publisher, + consisting of
Jjabout 400° speeches, diplomatic
notes, international agreements; and. secret: reports, tell the story| of the losing struggle for peace from the Manchurian incidents |
‘Jlof 1831 to the attack on Pearl
Harbor.” \
Stars In Adaptation
"Barth and High Heaven," ty | Gwethalyn Graham, will star Farley Granger in the film ver-!| ston of the navel, according to Samuel Goldwyn Studios. Pub-| lished by Lippincot, “Barth and|
Heaven” a Literary d selection in n 1044,
L'il Abner, a regular feature
comic Page; here appears with two of the miraculous Shmoos from |
Al Carp ‘The’ Life ‘and Times penetra o satirical saga in sketc
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HISTORY'S true colors
Book on Hawaii Gives Pech | Of an Empire. Info L Lives of Odd Characters
By HENRY BUTLER YOU can learn something
are a nation by Studying its depen-
vividly different from the flat dencles.
tributed to various periods. Salvaexpatriate
dedicated himself in “The Fall of the Spanish American Empire” to Spanish American Empire” to
loyed blackness attributed to
Spain, her rulers and her people in their handling of the Western
As in “The Rise of the Spanish American Empire,” first volume in his two-volume study, Madariaga endeavors to show the conquistadores and their successors as something more than goldérazed, bloodthirsty soldiers who raped a continent. He details the
gents, and land owners in alien, often miserable lands. * = » -
"THE EUROPEAN RECOVERY! PROGRAM." By Seymour Har-| « ris, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, $4.50.
“THE - EUROPEAN RECOV-| 'ERY PROGRAM,” by Seymour, Harris, is distressingly unsan-
guine in an analysis of the Marshall Plan.
Mr. Harris, a professor of economics at Harvard, strongly beGeorge C. Marshall that ERP is a prudent risk America and Europe must take. He is equally strong in the opinion that at present ERP is with not working out and that unless, drastic policy changes are . effected by the European Co-opera-tion Administration and by Congress, Europe's economy will not
AGAINST the still bloody pat-| tern of facts this effort may seem| less than convincing at times.| {Nevertheless, and |strives to explain, 1 condone. His estimate of the Indians places them on a low level, iindeed, and it is difficult to accept his evaluation” of some Spanish policies, but he definitely succeeds iin showing the complexities’ ‘which faced Spain in an age of turmoil. His exposition of the tortuous European political game played by England, France, and Spain, ‘Catherine the Great in the \background, is. illuminating. Madariaga also gives an excellent review of the triple blows delivered to Spain's empire by racial, revolutionary, and Teligio. dev writes with -
HERE ARE just a few of his pessimistic observations on ERP: ONE. Much of the value of the money ‘authorized for ERP-will~ be lost unless Congress does
tign. he 80th Congress has been| completely remiss tufts faire; to establish controls over alloca-| tion of vital materials.
play In ERP. They
800,000,000 as against $21,000,000, 22 Dleaget by the United States. 8 | Americas is clearly inequitable and they will not be able to ‘meet-it. THREE. who fear domestic surpluses have ‘heen able to force more goods in to ERP. than the participating countries have asked for.
and dried fruit. The taxpayer is! in these instances subsidizing] ‘private interests at home. without, vitally assisting thosé abroad. » Te ‘MR HARRIS is a specialist and although he has written with.a minimum of, the jargon of economics, his book is not meant for the general reader.
as well as students will have little quarrel with Mr. Harris’ incisive logic. They may, however, wonder when America will be mature enough to make use of economic science. Mr. Harris shows clearly: that ERP will fail unless we pay the bill in terms of personal sacrifice.
* » » ” ) INSTEAD OUR politicians have put us an a deferred payment
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is ay too R. W. M.
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ters. population and h lems we haven't yet solved and] probably never can. Mr. Kuykendall is a member lof the history department and Mr: “Day--is--professor-of.. English. lat the University of Hawaii. They have written a good, workmanMadariaga in sound like history of the territory, trac:
scholarly manner plainly ing the islands’ not to excuse or| {Polynesian kingdom to Ameri-
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Before March First
That's a guarded statement, UnIdoubtedly we Americans would rather he judged by the Hawaiian Islands than by Puerto Rico, for example. Hawaii is our prize exhibit, as Ralph 8S. Kuykendall Grove Day, writers on ‘the subject, demonstrate In their “Hawaii: tory.” shers, have chosen next Tuesday —Pearl Harbor Day— as a Sig: ficant release date. ;
like other r
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Prentice-Hall, the
: = » = IF MORE of the virtues
the vices of the American way of life are reflected in contemporary Hawaii, that's partly because the islands are richly endowed with resources and not over-populated. By dire contrast,. Puerto Rico ob. [Paris and her native South.
New York." S Hall $3
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hiwhere; the
" Despite its steady political, s0cial and economic development, Hawaii has not always had the best . kind of publicity. The authors take a crack at American newspapers for their sensational handling of the then famous, but now half-forgotten Massi® case back in 1931, “which gave the territory an enormous amount of the worst possible advertising.”
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ecent Due In February
“Southbound,” a new novel by Barbara Anderson, has been announced by Farrar, Straus for February publication.’ According to the publisher, “Southbound.” Mrs. Anderson’s first book since “The Days Grow Cold,” a 1941 Literary Guild selection, tolls the story of a Negro girl and her determination to become a concert pianist, despite. racial barriers that she has-to face in Ohio,
Hispubli-
than
growth
n-commonwealth.”
Space: limitations have forced {the authors to compress their narrative somewhat, so that it is! here and there dryly told. But the book is full of suggestions for further reading. I find myself wanting to know about the odd; characters—some of them unscrupulous. adventurers from the United States and other countries —who had much to do with the \developing the islands politically and economically.
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