Books In Review A Bird's-Eye View of Modern Warfare Looking Through the Open Bomb-Bays

FACE OF A HERO

By Louis Falstein. (Harcourt, Brace; $3.)

Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones This novel epitomizes what It was like to wage war from a

bomber. “Face of a Hero” could well become the classic record that sums

up in the uninhibited form of fiction all the countless missions flown in the late war and all the men of the bombing crews who died oi survived, who came home with bodies intact or crippled. In telling the story of a few crewmen, Mr/ Falstein seems to have told the story of them all—at least 'n typical substance. If these men were individuals, differing from thousands in other crews, that does not invalidate the univer- sality, the binding technics and peculiarities of air fighting. There is, you ftfel, a kinship, a shared life that follows these crews of officers and enlisted men into their uneasy waits between mis- sions, even into their leaves.

The sergeant who tells the story, a tail gunner working out of a bomber base in Italy, de- scribes himself and his comrades in such a way that each is r.

distinct person. And about them is woven the whole perilous, help- less atmosphere in which they lived month after month, with fate (or luck) almost a palpable presence to be courted in hope and fear.

Naturally some of Mr. Fal- stein's detail could have happened to soldiers anywhere, and the scenes describing the degradation of destitute Italian civilians have been done rather fully. But he has pointed up experiences pe- culiar to the crews of Liberators and other types of bombers—the hazards other branches of the fighting forces did not know. You learn of the fear that haunted every mission, no matter how many one had flown; the helpless- ness in the face of flak which sometimes hurtled upward like lava from a volcano; the uncer-

tainty of ever seeing an escort of * *

fighters; the constant dangers ol weather and mechanical failures; the list of missing that always con- fronted survivors. The author, ol course, could not have written sc

expertly of all this unless he hac gone through it.

Mr. Falstein’s protagonist. Sergt Ben Issacs, grew up, like the au-

thor, in the Ukraine, a Jew ex-

posed to pogroms. It is to Mi Falstein’s credit that he does noi overdo the motif of anti-semitism in the American Army, as othei authors have. It is mentioned only here and there. Ben fell that he had a powerful motive for hating Hitler and wanting tc fight and he was surprised to fine so many soldiers who did not seem to know why they were

there, who fought because they had to or because it was the thing to do.

"Face of a Hero” is a realistic novel. There is.rough talk, bui not so much as in Norman Mail- er’s "The Naked and the Dead.’ And Mr. Falstein's novel is more

concise, better organized, more

sharply written. Foul words often are suggested by a letter and a

dash, but that is a mere survival of Victorianism—they might as

well have been written out. Some episodes, like the sordid sex af- fair at the rest resort, could have been left out; they add nothing to the story. On the whole, though, this is a fiercely honest challenging book, which does nothing to glamorize or excuse war.

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A Bitter Novel of Racial Violence And a Spine-Chilling Revenge REPRISAL By Arthur Gordon. (Simon & Schuster; $3.)

Several years ago four Negroes, two men and two women, were killed by a group of men who stopped their car at a bridge in the country in Georgia. The lynchers had a grievance against one of the men. The other man ap- parently was murdered for protesting too much, the wom- en because they recognized members of the mob. There were the usu- a 1 investiga- *r»*»r G«rd«i.

tions with the usual outcome— nothing was done about It.

Mr. Gordon has written a spine- chilling novel around this factual episode. But his book is no mere melodrama. He has approached the massacre without hysteria and has

Swords Into Plowsharos By Cynthia Fostor

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Miss Foster, a young Washing- tonian, views and reaffirms the old truth*—of the power of faith, hope and charity, with young eyes and a young heart. She manifests a sense of beauty and deep gratitude for the blessings of life, and a wish to share them with us.

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[tried honestly to probe the mo- tives and the atmosphere that

[made it possible. He has kept the scene in Georgia, but placed it in an imaginary town called Haines- ville. The massacre already is a

year past when the story opens. A colored boy who had testified before the Federal grand jury had been beaten terribly. Three men

—among the lynchers, naturally— were tried in Federal court for intimidating a witness. Of course they were acquitted, though they were obviously guilty.

Mr. Gordon has imagined that one of the mob victims, Lydia, had a husband who lived in Harlem and was a teacher. Lydia had been visiting relatives in Hainesville. When the witness-beaters were acquitted, the husband, Nathan, realized not only that he could get no justice through the law. but that the identity of at least three lynchers had been disclosed. He went to Georgia to exact his own justice.

There are some interesting char- acters, among them Bubber Ay- cock, the huge, depraved farmer who led the lynching; Lester, the alcoholic, timid editor; Melady,

[the courageous and tactless news magazine reporter from New York; Yancey, the colored undertaker Others, like Shep Townsend, the handsome playboy and seducer are stock figures.

Shifting the scene constantly from one character to another, the author has told his story tightly and tensely. It is an unusual book

ifor the Literary Guild to send its members, and the selection of such an honest chronicle is to be com- mended. Georgians will not ap- prove of "Reprisal” except for a few like Lillian Smith who prefer justice to local pride. At least it can’t be said that the author is a Yankee who does not understand the people. Mr. Gordon was born in Georgia, of a family Southern for generations.

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by Hanama Tasaki

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A Warm, Sunny Report on the Cold War As It Is Fought in the Po Valley THE LITTLE WORLD OF DON CAMILLO By Giovanni Guareschi. (Pellegrini & Cudahy; $2.75.)

Giovanni Guareschi's publishers, somewhat carried away, perhaps, because his first export is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, have called him "an Italian James Thurber." The comparison is not apt. Mr. Guareschi and Mr. Thurber are both humorists, and both car- j toonists, but beyond this superficial family resemblance, they are no more alike than an organ-grinder and a French horn player in the J Boston Symphony. ♦-{

If Mr. Guareschi, a prominent political gadfly, editor and author; in his native country, must be compared with an Anglo-Saxon writer, it would better be Bruce Marshall, who is every bit as

whimsical, and who also write.^ about priests. Mr. Guareschi is* clearly on the side of the angels, and nobody but a curmudgeon or

a Communist would take exception to his sunny report on the cold war as It is fought in the Po Valley.

Life in the little world of Don Camillo is full of contradictions. Don Camillo, the village priest and a muscular Christian if ever there was one. fights communism tooth and nail, but he is actually very fond of Peppone, the Communist leader, who is also the Mayor. On his side, Peppone, who is vehe- mently anti-clerical, still goes to

! church and likes the priest, even

if for business reasons he calls him “a black-robed reactionary.”

| The see-saw battle between

I these fierce friends begins when ! Peppone insists on having his

| baby christened Lenin. Don Ca-

| millo has to depend on his fists instead of Christian logic to con-

vince Peppone that this is not as it should be. They go on like this for some 20 chapters, each one scoring alternately, in folk- tale fashion. And when Don iCamillo's bishop sends him into, exile for his overenthusiastic1 defense of the truth, Peppone goes to the bishop to have his worthy' rival reinstated.

It will come as no surprise to any one that Don Camillo and Peppone come to entire agreement on moral principles. Don Camillo was a cinch to win, for he has steadily the councils of the Lord, who speaks to him from the crucifix, in very direct, colloquial terms. Mr. Guareschi explains in his introduction that Christ is the voice of his conscience. Still, it is a device that may startle less inhibited members of his faith.

■The Little World of Don CamilSo" makes the deadlock be- tween Christianity and commu- nism look more like a bear hug. It is actually a kind of continued cartoon, bold and gay.

—MARY McQRORY.

Reading and Writing I ---

United States Book Exchange is Swapping Books With Ail Countries Except Russia

By Mary McGrory The United States Book Ex-

change. two years old on Septem- ber 1, stands In the middle of a

gigantic swapping operation which involves the sending of 2,000 pub- lications a week to 850 libraries in

j every country in the world except ; Russia.

An outgrowth of the American Book Center for War-Devastated Libraries, financed by Rockefeller Foundation grants and housed in the Library of Congress cellar, USBE is now firmly established on

a give-and-take basis. Six hun- dred foreign libraries, their credit established through dispatch of their own publications, can re- quest any title they want from the almost 2 million books, pam- phlets, leaflets and periodicals which crowd the 21-member staff in their warehouselike domain.

This lively two-way traffic, which has lifted the program from

! the realm of charity onto the more

satisfying level of real exchange, is very heartening, according to Alice Dulany Ball, its executive

i director. Libraries too poor or ■ too devastated still receive gift

publications, and will as far as

; possible until they are on a sol- | vent basis.

Far and away the most requests from foreign countries are for publications in the medical field. USBE handles only fiction of a

classical nature, and does a thriv-1 ing business in periodicals, with1 libraries everywhere attempting to rebuild war-broken files.

Japan and Italy are the most avid foreign participants in the program. Satellite countries like Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and Hungary show a lively interest in political science, general litera- ture and history. American cities with large foreign-born popula-

[ tions make frequent requests for popular and semipopular material in foreign languages.

The countries least heard from are Iraq and Iran. But point four may change all that.

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Freda Utley to Tell How We've Bungled. Into War

Freda Utley, one of the earliest and most prominent ex-Com- munist authors, who was telling people it was' later than they thought long before it was fash- ionable, has hopes that her next book may find her for once in step.

It will be called “Bungled Into War: From Yalta to Korea” and will show how “America’s pur- suit of self-defeating policies has created a real menace to our se-

curity and dragged us to the brink of the third world war.”

Miss Utley feels that Senator McCarthy’s charges, "which have won real grass-roots support,” have created an atmosphere re- ceptive at last, to “the pleasant untruths”, which she has been telling ever since she published her disillusioned memoirs of Soviet Russia, "The Dream We Lost” in 1940, on the eve of the

j "Stalin buildup in America.” J Daughter of an English Social- ist. and widow of a Rushan who

was carried away to a Soviet slave labor camp, Miss Utley is now an American citizen. She lives quietly at 1717 Twentieth street with her 16-year-old son Jon and a Shetland collie pup. A sturdy, middle-aged woman who wears thick horn-rimmed glasses and a hearing aid. she still has a slight Bohemian air. A chain-smoker, she speaks rapidly in a husky voice. A onetime member of the British Commu-

; nist Party, she no longer believes, as she did in her youth, "that the economic form of a government is everything.” She belongs to no political party here. Her recent trip to the Hill to give testimony against Owen Lattimore, whom she knew when she was a corres- pondent in the Far East, to the Tydings committee was her only appearance before a congressional committee. She firmly believes that the Government should have the advice of "experts in com- munism.”

Miss Utley’s previous books, “Japan’s Feet of Clay,” “China at War,” “Last Chance in China,” and “The High Cost of Ven- geance” (a highly critical study of German occupation policies), have not been great financial successes. “I have been in the doghouse a long time,” she says with the air of one who is about to be liber- ated. Her lecture bookings have recently been stepped up.

As for the criticism directed at recanting Communists, Miss Utley said, “One becomes philosophical. It is a question of vintage among anti-Communists. Some years are better than others.”

Forthcoming this month: “Ber- nard Baruch;.” by W. L. White; "Young Shelley,” Kenneth Neill Cameron’s prize-winning biogra- phy of the genesis of a radical; “All Honorable Men," by James Stewart Martin, about United States policy in Germany; “Gen- eration on Trial,” British corre- spondent Alistair Cooke’s account of the “U. S. A. vs. Alger Hiss.”

Bean Predicts Democrats Will Win at Polls rHE MIDTERM BATTLE By Louis H. Bean. (Business Press, Inc.; $1.)

Reviewed by J. A. O'Leary Louis H. Bean, the Government

economist who forecast a Demo- cratic trend in 1948 when most experts thought the Republicans would win in a walk, has come up with another interesting booklet on what may happen in the No- vember congressional elections. In 1948 Mr. Bean saw signs of an- other Democratic victory even be- fore the nominations.

Mr. Bean's prediction is the Democrats will keep control of both the House and Senate this year by reduced majorities. He sees only the normal off-year losses for the party in power of 25 or 30 seats in the House, and three or four Senate seats.

At their present strength in this Congress the Republicans would have to capture 46 seats to control the House, and 7 to or- ganize the Senate.

But the chief value in Mr. Bean's new book, "The Midterm Battle,’’ does not lie so much in his own predictions as in the pres- entation of his forecasting sys-j tern. Basically, it consists of j judging the future by the past.

Obviously a man who revels in, charts and statistics, the author] apparently has devoted his spare | time for years to a deep study of: the returns from past elections, observing how the political winds' change under different economic] conditions, noting the effects of] light -or heavy turnouts andi watching the trends in widely scattered geographical areas.

The author, who is an adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture,! makes no mystery of his system.' In fact, his booklet is a step-by- step account, entertainingly writ- ten, of how he reaches his own conclusions.

Mr. Bean’s specific predictions for 1950 may be upset by the out- break of war in Korea. But if that happens it will not neces- sarily be any reflection on his methods, for he wisely based his forecast on conditions as they ex-

isted at the time they were written.

The Tale of a Man Whose Future Was His Past THE MAN WHO LIVED BACKWARD By Malcolm Ross. (Farrar, Straus; $3.50.)

Suppose you lived today out In a normal way, but when tomor- row came, it would be yesterday, and when that day ended, the next day would be day before yester- day? Mr. Ross has conjured up a man who lived backward In time. Mark Selby was bom in 1940 and died in 1865. He could remember the future and knew the past from reading and the recollections of others, though he never knew what was to happen to him personally in his future, which was everyone else's past.

The author has managed adroic- i ly to make his man’s receding life seem almost plausible. If you think about the method too hard, you’ll probably feel dizzy, and it won t stand too many practical tests. Accepted as a fantasy, a tour of the imagination, the story has a curious fascination. Though Mr. Ross writes very well, his strange novel probably would have been more effective at less length. It is cluttered with discussions of beliefs and problems of different periods, philosophies and histori- cal personages. Mr. Ross, who wrote “Death of a Yale Man” and several other books, is re- membered in Washington as chairman of the late Fair Em- ployment Practice Commission.

—CARTER BROOKE JONES.

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BUGLES IN THE NIGHT. By Arthur Her- bert. Rinehart. A rough and readv adventure and love story of the old West. $2.50

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST. By Nathan- ael West. New Directions. A story of' Hollywood republished with an essay on 1 the author’s life and work by Richard i B. Gehman. $1.50.

THE FAMILY TAKES A WIFE. By Ethel Hueston Bobbs-Merrill. What happens when an ex-GI’s German wife is brought into his family's home. $2.75.

HERE TODAY. By John Coates. Macmil- lan. A very, very funny story about a man who lust escapes commitment to an asylum to become Involved in the oddest sort of double triangle Imagina- ble. $2.76. Sept. 12.

THE JUDGE RODE A SORREL HORSE. By Robbins Hunter. Dutton. The story of father and son lawyers and lustices in the town of Newark, Ohio. $3,

MEN IN BUCKSKIN. By Herbert E. Sto- ver. Dodd, Mead. A heroic episode of the American Revolution. $3.

NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP. By Winston Graham. Doubleday. The story of a man, half blinded by the war. whose love for a young Frenchwoman of mysterious background plunged him into a year of violence and murder in the south of France. $3.

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Frances Bruce Strain. Appleton-Cen- tury-Crofts. A dramatic series of teen- age predicaments. $3.

COMMITTEES AND CONFERENCES. By William E Utterback. Rinehart. A practical guide for executives, civic leaders and public figures. $3.25.

drums BEHIND THE HILL. By Ursula Graham Bower. Morrow. The author's nine years among the ex-headhunters of Northeast, India. $4.

“Black Lion Wharf," an outstanding print from the London series by James A. McNeill Whistler, one of five American artists included in new exhibition, "Milestones of American Achievement,” at the Library of Congress, to remain through this year.

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News of Art and Artists 'Milestones of American Achievement' Exposition Now on View At Library of Congress Is a Good Reply to Russian Boasts

Whether, the claims of the U S. S. R. to have been the agency! and source of every discovery, in- vention and contribution to hu- man welfare, enlightenment and inspiration since prehistoric times had anything to do with it is not mentioned. But the Library of Congress recently opened another exhibition, entitled “Milestones of American Achievement’’ (to re- main for the rest of this year) j which is a strong, concrete reply! to the Russians’ fantastic boasts.

The display, arranged in the main exhibition hall, second floor main building, represents what individual Americans have con- tributed not only to American life but to world progress and human betterment, from the discovery of America to the end of World War I. It is absorbingly interesting, al- though its arrangement leaves much to be desired. It is set forth alphabetically, so that the visitor, following an orderly course, starts with. John Adams and ends with John Peter Zenger (freedom of the press). Chronologically, the show ranges from Amerigo Ves- pucci and Christopher Columbus to Woodrow Wilson. And accord- ing to class of achievement, from dramatic performances (an art “writ in water”) to such disas- trously concrete objects as guns and airplanes.

However, tne spatial arts are given such short shrift in this ex- hibition, that although the Library disarms criticism by pointing out that “any display of this kind must necessarily omit many whose individual effort and thought have enhanced the strength and life-blood of the American people,” art lovers will probably come away wondering if the compos- ing of a song (for Instance) was really more epochal than the building of a skyscraper.

Arts Adequately Represented. For the time-arts are ade-

quately represented in the show (drama, music, literature) while! the space-arts (architecture, j painting, sculpture) are largely! ignored. Only five painters and! printmakers are among the! Library’s "Milestones of Ameri-: can Achievement” and then large- ly for non-artistic reasons. John James Audubon, labeled an “artist of superb abilities,” is included (apparently) because of his study and experiments with American wild birds. Winslow Homer de- picted the monumental national epic of Americans wresting a liv- ing from the sea. Samuel F. B. Morse, an outstanding portraitist, is here because of his achievement with the telegraph, Joseph Pen- nell because he was the "first to make varied aspects of industry recognized subjects for the artist.” I James A. McNeill Whistler is in-! eluded because he was “a great artist.”

No sculptors or architects were chosen, no one who established an art museum, or made priceless gifts of art treasures to American cities. Yet all such have con- tributed as heavily to the enrich- ment of life in this country as did j those who excavated fossils or established singing schools.

Nevertheless, the Library’s ex- hibition is fascinating so far as it goes.

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Whyte's Third Continuing its prdgram of af-

fording opportunities for new and young Washington artists to ex- hibit, the Whyte Gallery recently opened the third of its summer exhibitions, to remain through this month. This August group is composed of artists, most of whom are unfamiliar to me, and presumably to the public.

Although each painter is rep-

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her best. Edward Beitzel's "Figure With Fireworks” has the unfin- ished appearance of a study for a mural. Sellen Keats shows three paintings, two of them primitive in character, the third, "Zoo,” an imaginative rather slight little tapestry that suggests one's mem- ory of a visit to the birds and animals.

Ray Atherton prefers archi- tectural subjects which he deals with in a near-abstract manner, emphasizing straight lines and angles. His technique is .as clean- cut as his subject matter. People are the major interest of Silvia Wolf, whose study of an old wo-

man with a cup of tea is close to caricature, yet includes sympathy. The artist's interior with figure entitled "Leisure” with its fresh colors and slight distortion, con- veys the theme. Dorothy Gold- berg’s poetic little abstractions have intellectual springboards.

Josephine Blacks two still-life paintings are in emphatically grayed colors, reveal careful at- tention to arrangements and close harmonies. Jean Evans’ still life and figure paintings are expres- sionists, their compositions ap- pearing to be the results of im- pulse rather than deliberation.

Ceramic Competition Nearly 2,000 American and Ca-

nadian ceramists have received circulars about the 15fh annual ceramic exhibition to be held at the Syracuse Museum, October 29 through December 3. This open competition, offering more than $1,700 in prizes, is sponsored jointly by the Syracuse Museum and the Onandaga, Pottery Co.. and includes pottery, ceramic sculpture and enamels. Washing- ton ceramists who have not re- ceived circulars, can obtain entry blanks and full information by writing to the 15th Ceramic Na- tional, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse 3, N. Y. Entries are due September 14 and 15. The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Washington, will show se-

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Although the 11 painters con- sidered here, beginning with Manet, ending with Toulouse- Lautrec, have been the subjects of many previous critiques, bi- ographies and other publications, Prof. Venturi, an internation- ally known art scholar and his- torian estimates them so shrewdly and writes of them so freshly that 'readers who considered them- selves well acquainted with these 19th century landmarks in French painting will nevertheless enjoy his compact appraisals. Students and others not familiar will need no further Introduction.

A gallery of 217 halftone illus- trations of more than 20 works by each artist enables the reader to study Prof. Venturi's an- alyses of individual paintings. He also analyzes each artist’s life and personality and relation to his own era. The reader may not agree with all of the author's viewpoints (e.g., “Lautrec created the perfect form of a type of vice, thus gave it an ideal value,”) but will concede that he makes him- self clear.

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