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Living Story of War

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By EMERSON PRICE . AMERICANS OWE “Face of a Hero,” by Louis Fal-| stein, a careful and thoughtful reading. This first novel is sincere and objective; it is quite without the straining for effect which so frequently impairs the narrative of the| “would-be realist. Moreover, you will find no streamlined!

plot with episodes carefully

knit together and tied with

symbolic how-ribbon. But the denouement is

there — everywhere — the eternal, ubiquitous, the great and final denouement of death, Yet one reads this living story of war with an unflagging interest to the end, which is as strangely like the beginning as life is eternally like life, even when the backdrop of death is continuously in view. I have no doubt that every man who has served in the armed forces of the United States will the thor's com=

- pletély authentic; for here, faithcoe FAN -TOCOPded 18. the -UReOn~] scious

obscenity of the soldier, who is placed in such a situation of futility as regards himself that .one word serves as well as another. In a sense it is not obscenity; it is the Army vocabulary, well known, approved and everywhere in use. THE STORY is recounted in

first person by Ben Isaacs, a Jewish-American school teacher

who, as a child, had been a refgee from the Ukraine For the,

most part the action takes place in Italy. Having escaped the persecutions and pogroms of the Old World, Ben is without a persecution complex; he regards himself as a genuine American and he is accepted wholeheartedly by his comrades, the nine other — members of his bomber crew. Ben and his companions are drawn with startling fidelity; they are as real as men every day about you; men you have known long and well. Instinctively they are generous and within certain limits they are brave; when they are not so it is a result of ignorance, for they do not know why they fight, and they share with many Americans the odd notion that certain Europeans are the victims of wretched poverty because they wish to be, Thus there is in the minds of these men not the faintest touch = of a Ap “the unhappy plight of the Italians, nor any

protest of Cosmo Fidanza, a crew member, describes it: “It's a sin. We will have to do penance for this sin.”

<a o 8 8 COSMO’s INDUCTION Into the armed forces had interrupted his training for the priesthood. His story is a significant one, for he had been anxious to introduce his buddies to the beauties of Italy, of which his Italian-born father had talked to him. But he returns from a first visit to the nearby village of Mandia vowing never again to enter it. For

By Louis Falstein. New York, Har

; In Army Vocabulary ;

___ "FACE OF A HERO." A novel.

Postwar Paris

the daughters of the

in arrogant contempt. He sees starved Itallan parents) and relatives offering “their! daughters to Americans who, with! a grossness hardly to be equalled] in human relations, contemptu-|

{

ously accept the offers. Inciden-|

lingly tragic.

aspects of this book it is not because they are unrelieved by lighter and even genuinely

it is because I feel, as I am sure the author feels, that it is necessary we free ourselves from provincialism sufficiently to understand that nature has not endow-

tural wealth we have enjoyed in

spect customs not our own.

» » ” THE SOURCES 6f human resentments. and hatreds are uni-| versal, and we cannot make ourselves loved and respected abroad by arrogant practices, This we need to learn well: There but for the grace of God go I. And If it is] necessary to train a whole gen-! eration of young Americans to! fight-—as it seems to be—then it is necessary also to teach them why they fight. | Long sections of this book contain --passages—of-—sheer—beauty; despite some of the ugly human]

sense of guilt at their own flour-

ishing affluence in the face A

brutal, cruelly real poverty. The

behavior described in it, It will] stand among the best novels of the year. i

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“REPRISAL." A novel. By Arthur Gordon. New York, Simon

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in the village he sees Americans (fy i lls Gaiety

Tiians sad Kolding the Ttalians SPRINGTIME TN. PARI

tally, the death of Cosmo in one a

described, is simply and compel- I Saw Paris,” and in it he shared;

er the entire world with the na-|

our own land. And we must redeeds as Nazi collaborators. But {most were still about, and some

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Elliot Paul. New York, Random House, $3.50. By HOWARD SHELDON TEN YEARS ago Elliot Paul wrote a tender farewell to Paris

(with his readers the lives of

If I have recited here some of those who lived in Rue de la Hau-|

fehette, a narrow

| blocks long. : Last year Paul returned to that

humorous circumstances. Rather, tiny street to find out how his!

{friends had fared during the war, the occupation, liberation {and the Marshall Plan. He. tells what he found in “Springtime {in Paris.” Many faces had gone—some in death and others in haste to avoid retribution for their foul

were as much the same as time and events would allow. Paul again captures the intimate detail and the tender touch that make his stories of this small segment of humanity ring 80 true. But running strong beneath the smooth flow of his tale Is an undercurrent of unrest, of fear and doubt. Postwar troubles, the Communists, inflation and poverty have chilled the galety that Paris used to have. “Those who read his earlier work will find rich reward in Paul's latest account of life in Paris.

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Times Special SPRINGFIELD, O., Aug. 26—A Ind., couple, Mr. and rs. J. Hi Pohlman, have given

IM ARTHUR GORDON, born in Georgia with a thoroughly south- , wittenberg College a 200-year-ern background and tradition, was educated at Yale and oxtord, 10: FitIenlk ED rE been yea i

and has spent a considerable period of his adult life in the North. «

one of the greatest achievements

With the exception of his service with the armed forces during the in hook publishing up to 1749.” .

war, his career has been devoted

to editing and writing. At 37, he;

is now the author of his first novel titled “Reprisal.”

. As a story of action and suspense, this book is wholly successful; so much so, indeed, that| the reader will find himself quite unable to escape the terror which dominates the entire tale. |

Yet, it seemns to me there is an Idea in the story which, as an] idea, is concealed. And as an idea it may be found violating hu-| 5 og omni SS Siig n. ex v

" = THE STORY is’ that of a particularly horrible lynching in a town-—called-Hainesville-in-Geor-gia. One of the innocent victims, a woman, is the wife of Nathan Hamilton, who flees to Harlem and then returns for revenge. With, the case re-opened, Joe

ielady, correspondent for -an-in-

fluential New York magazine,

the case.

ntime, may be seen in later sec-|

becomes personally involved in| the case, turns out to be a sen timéntal fool. Shep, at the same

tions of the book as far more manly than he has appeared to be-—a man who does what has to be done, despite his human Weaknesses.

CAIRO Hap FE GSES A revege: he elfeved in the proc-|

a] j |

{esses of law. Moreover, he un-

| derstands the Negro problem in

the South far better than Melady jcan ever understand it, for he has {lived in the South all his life. (If {that were true, every Frenchman {who had lived always in France would have known all the weaknesses of his country before HitTer “overran it.) In any case,

. = =» | NOW THE LYNCHING of Ne-|

It is a rare copy of “The Bloody Theater” or “Martyr's Mirror,”

lone of 1300 original printings of

the volume made on the second

printing press established In { Pennsylvania. ? The book is an account of the {lived of persons who lived from

the time of Christ until 1660, who opposed war and infant baptism and were put to death for their AREER German Seventh Day sect in Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pa, took 15 men to-complete.——— pia In spite of its 200 years, the book 1s in good condition and can be read easily.

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It ‘may be said at the outselgroes in the South is not just| Roosevelt, Willlam Faulkner and

that the author has every sym“pathy for Negroes in the South, and that he characterizes

to that of Shep Townsend, a rich

young Southerner, we find SOme- | ino ig not merely a crime against special issue commemorating the thing of the idea mentioned be- |the Negro; it is an unholy crime magazine's 100th anniversary in- a {against all humanity. As such,|clude: Bernard DeVoto, Russell’

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{the problem of the {| Southerner; it is not a specific

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Thomas Mann are among 22 outstanding contributors to the Cen-

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Other writers represented in the

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==4rtegrity ~and--great moral pur pose. Shep, on the other hand, appears as a selfish man with a vein of cruelty; the kind of

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