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Two New Books Give ™ - a Fresh Insight Into tages

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"THE SMOKING MOUNTAIN: STORIES OF POSTWAR GERMANY." By Kay Boyle. New York, McGraw-Hill, $3.50. | oc “BEARS IN THE CAVIAR." By Charles W. Thayer. Philadelphia, Lip-| ".~1S¥ pincott, $3.50. | =

By HENRY BUTLER Two totally different new books give insights into a . couple of the world’s “problem” countries. | One is Kay Boyle's “The Smoking Mountain,” a group

of Sons unforgettably dramatizing the plight of modern is illustrated along with other ships of the Confederate xe +

novel, "Proud New Flags,” recent! blished by Lippincott. The other is “Bears in the Caviar,” Charles W. Thay-| = EY Pp

Wm it ras re ee . e er's often hilarious reminisc-|yp itary Government, Miss Boyle First Novel Written

ences of a young diplomat’s has had ample opportunity to ob- ’ .s , . la , 2 i v 3 ‘ rials in many countries, [serve her subjects at close range. | Th G + T + i a valuable for She has done the best reporting in| n eo req ra I on C § spe 3 its chapters on the USSR. lyet read.

aout ‘ World, $3.50. Both. books point up a lesson 8 8 = By EMERSON PRICE

IRONCLAD—The Confederate steamship Virginia RW isrvimac in deydock, after being 2 ered avy in.F. Van Wyck Mason's new historica 30

Book Tells | 10% Soviet Rise .

fictional form on Germany I have wre CHAIN AND THE LINK." A novel. By David Miller. New York, "RUSSIA'S SOVIET ECONOMY."

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too ‘often forgotten: The truth, MR. THAYER nearly 20 years the fadtual reality, about any pa- 880 first set foot in Leningrad, tion is far too complex and elu- after a harrowing hedge-hopping sive to be reduced to easy gen- flight from Koenigsberg in a batitered old Soviet plane. In the * 3 » midst of current hysteria we're MISS BOYLE, being a sensitive prone Poi and highly gifted writer, conveys potentially a in the vignettes a series of sharp good year for sensations of present-day life, American-Soviet in Germany. She makes us feel Understandin g. . : « Stalin and his keenly the pride BH Krennlin crew and resentment, hadn’t yet done the hunger and cynicism, t h e despair and depravity . of

eralities.

{still possible for Americans to Mr. Thayer of talk directly with Russians if, were fine cities. a like Mr. Thayer, they had gone| She dramatizes Miss Boyle to the enormous trouble of learn-| . the “good” Germans and “bad” ing one of the world’s crankiest, Germans — the physically and languages. mentally scarred veterans of con-| Stalin and his crew hadn't yet centration camps, and the unre- got around to hounding each generafe Nazis who are merely American visitor as a dangerous, biding: their time or engaging in spy although Intourist, the Soviet| profitable black-market deals, lequivalent of Cook's Tours, com-| She tells of the homeless DOYS hined secret-police duties with) from all over Europe who fol- njiging and translating. It was)

lowed the GIs and learned to talk stin reasonably legal in Russia American with Brooklyn Orit; pe enthusiastic about some! “suthren” accents, only to wind aspects of American civilization, | up in a DP center for repatria-in,taply efficiency and mass-pro-| tion. One such youngster wanted guetion. The dreary, drab years! to follow his American friend 0 of murderous purges and tortu-| the United States. He had to be|,,s nersecution were yet to come.

gently informed that it would be, : unwise. the friend being a Negro] That fact gives the early part from Georgia. In a blinding and, of Mr. Thayer's book a melan-) puzzling flash, the youngster had/choly significance. With hindy ! A | to learn about the American na- sight, we can see what might tional disgrace of prejudice. have been. But the Kremlin ; ak Iways clear T¢W smarter and quicker in| And she makes 3 ay their determined ruthlessness, and tragic the “leitmotiv” of hun- ¢ sooner than we did what, er, ceaseless and desperate. Hun- was likely to happen if any kind! 4 3 ger for the Germans, but imported of fraternizing should continue. {They foresaw the dangerous pos-

plenty for the occupying Amerk| "0 ot their own people cans ir their Post Exchange might humanly recognize the super-markets. humanity of other peoples. And In weg, long introductory study since any kind of human under-, of a war-crime trial of one Hein- standing—warmth, humor, play, rich Baab, former Gestapo stooge, kidding—raises hob with the arid she brings to light once again the logic of Marxist doctrine, the hu-| thing that has mystified the rest man side had to go. Otherwise, of the world. Did the Germans no doctrine, and hence, ultimate(the “good” Germans) know ly, no Kremlin. what went on in Dachau, Belsen! Mr. Thayer has a good enough| and Buchenwald? If they did sense of history to recognize all know, why didn’t they do some- this as part of the traditional thing about it? Russian pattern. i Those questions in turn suggest, Russian tyrants always have the other and bigger question: If been afraid of foreigners. They the good Germans knew, long always have tried to nourish a before the Reichstag fire, what national psychosis based on the Hitler and his abominable crew premise that “everybody's crazy were up to, why didn’t they stop but us.” That is the tragic heriit? tage of a vigorous, talented and The answer is too complex for fundamentally sympathetic peo-|

_|ple. It might’any day prove the! Det Statement. Miss BY le mab world’s worst disaster.

scriptions of German personali- . ties. The psychological split be- Tel Is Irish tween aggressive group-assertive- ?

IT IS ALWAYS difficult to predict how readers will receive

a first novel, but if literary discrimination is not wholly lost it|

seems to me that “The Chain and the Link,” by David Miller should be widely and enthusiastically acclaimed. This is no fleeting shoddy to be read for the pleasure of the moment and then cast out of the mind. It is a novel in the great tradition. The author’s sure sense lof form and his instinctive sense|times to rebellion, despair and

lof history are not less apparent/loneliness. At one time or an-

Ithan his profound understanding|Other he becomes a wanderer. at ful and objective research, by the

{ While the time is during the Scholar and a leader of his Peo-| me pictures Russia as a land rich

farmer and, finally,

lof the human heart.

learly vears of the 19th Century, Plé; Whose spiritual problems he

lit would be a mistake to describe S0Ives with ease — though he sources. |

lit—in the ordinary sense—as a|S0IVes them, too, perhaps, out of

{historical novel. has peopled his story with char|acters both timeless and univer-| {sal; they might be encountered in|

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For the author/® Sense of his own incomplete-

HOW EZRA ultimately achieves|among the nations in 1914 to

lany age or in any land. a full consummation of his mar- second today-despite (0 WATS T I f P t [any ag y {riage is a great human story./and a revolution. And steel and eo S Oo e S

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per history alongside that of Bennett and Pulitzer, are reThis is the work of a brilliant counted. mind; but it is a kind of Drill Much of the material in the ance easily governed and direct- disquisitions is not new. A large| ed' by a clear and lucid style. amount of it was made available The result is a book not only|to his executives during his lifeinformative in an extraordinaryitime. Many of the disquisitions degree, but one immeasurably were written in “a tongue in the pleasing. From a close analy-{cheek” vein. While they were

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