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A 170-ton coaster is hoisted aboard the Dutch vessel Modjokerto in Rotter dam harbour, to join an identical ship already lashed down. The unique "method af transporting two coastal vessels, together with four smaller craft, to Indonesia, s claimed by the company to be the first time it has been attempted. (AP Picture)
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The real F.D.R.?
HE BORE GRUDGES, BROKE PROMISES—AND CHERISHED. THE IDEALS OF THE - BEST
ROOSEVELT IN RETRO-
Gun-
SPECT. By John ther. Hamish Hamilton. 218. 441 pages.
to
NEW BOOKS
reviewed by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
He collected almost every- thing; especially naval pripla and stamps, of which he had one and a quarter million- mulion of them worthless. Ho
He boro grudges," broke, pro- maco.
ungrateful, atid "lacked mental, and moral pre- elsion.". He did mat hale often, but Dewey and de Gaulle maa- ciencd him.
Embedded in this vast, uh- sorted heap of information are many clues to the man whom millions knew only as a volcs. But what-a voice!
UNPOPULAR ESSAYS. By Bertrand Russell. Allen and Unwin. 89. 6d. 223 pages.
RUSSELL is an
NTO this emporium looking like a book, Gunther has crammed enough material for three lives of Roosevelt. But he has not written one him self. He has had time to collect but no patience rend American history books DERTRAND arrange. Indeed, he seems about ships and trash. He had anachronism and knows to take a perverse delight, no liking for poetry. fin setting discordant He was frugal. The White elements next to one House cocktails were mixed of Argenuine vermouth and sub- another.
standard Rin. It is believed the that favoured guests got better hope, but plenty of galety. As An involved account of political strategy which led to ingredients.
a democrat he recognises that the 1932 Presidential can- Ha liked: golag on trip.
a fanatical belief in democracy didature may, for instance.
charts,
trees, the word "pipe- (or anything elso) makes da- politicians followed by a dozen paragraphs line,"
had mocratic (even
institutions impos- about Roosevelt's stamp col.
Dutch slbic. otics), pre-Revolution lection.
architecture. He disliked: air- gloves, the word conditioning "bureaucrat,"
"to be hurried,
Emphasis is laid upon Roose- velt, the political wizard, cun- ning, adroit the slippery,
It is
as well to be reminded that in
a democracy a great leader has
to compete with small men on Ho liked women.
their own level,
whom
He is an eighteenth cerim fury rationalist who lives in an a marked by passion, pra ludice and bigotry.
He has
Low lusions, little
to
Ho Is a liberal that in say, one who holds all opinions tentatively. And only through a revival of liberal tolerance can the world'survive.
His wife, he adored, sometimes to set up a
sentence: or
But it will also be advisable single world; gov- It may be Russian
prefer it to be American. But
It is no usa having the annoyed him. She has written crament.
American. Russell would
invitation.
In World War I, when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, It is said be fell in love with Washington lady and Was offered his "freedom." His mother divorce.
prevented
wisdom of the centuries in your of him a startling
If at a critical moment, "I was one of those who served ook publishers are facing o Who is Roland Camberton, 1021, when he was penniless and mind
Coward got
you lose the support of some his purpose." sis. Only the old-established author of an October novel called yery lonely,
Roosevelt last lolases will
unhurt. "Scamp?". All about low lie in offer of 600 much-needed dollar key-tycoon as escape Rising ( costs - may #end many Soho, high ideals in Bloomsbury. 1o. turn adolescent play, the support of John L. Lewis.
A mislald luncheon Publisher Lehmann admits Leave It To You" into a short through oung: firms out of business.
author is hiding behind pen- story. "For that amount," he EDVS. "I would have turned Publisher Michael Joseph reos
shrinking "War and Peace into a music- remedy in increased prices for name, not much more.
I find Lehmann's "Book-buyers must be violet is Manchester-born, ex- hall sketch," ducated to pay more," he told RAF, has been teacher, adver: They are calling Beginners ne, and artded. trenchantly, tisement copywriter, trandator,
for *Alm-star David For better. books."
tutor, convasser, publisher' Ficado
at publishers Cresset Further clues when NIVEN
Press. During Iull at the Hack-
studios Niven tried his hand at novel writing. Called It "Round The Rugged Rocks" Now, on publisher's advice, he is putting final touches to amended last chapter.
jos
Another publishing executive traveller.
"Down a different, more revolu- autoblography, Jonary solution. "Produce ney" follows "Soump" later on heaper books with ersatz bind- ing, not cloth. Use lighter à Last
ex - naval weight paper."
architect, old Etonian Edward ALLCARD, 35, made a solo-sall across the Atlantic in his 34ft, 40-year-old yawl, Temptress.
Snag here is big circulating {braries' attitude, They claim such books won't last.
"In London, on a book pro- duction mission, is New Yorker Nowell Christiansen, of power- ful reprints firm, Bantam Books
Dave Roosevelt and
year,
He took 80 days, sailed 8,000 miles. Reasonably enough, he wrote a book about It, Single- handed Passage:"
That's not all. Allcard alms
Oddly enough, book is about a 23-year-old British offer who ends up in Hollywood. General release, Spring 1931.
in
rathor Russian than nono,
..
Two men he has met in life have appeared to him supreme- Gladstone and Lenin, ly great, Gladstone was the greater.
In
this volume of essays,
03 designed
attack on
the years after 1032, the United
It was providential that
dogmatism, the frivolous 'wit on During the Becond War the surface almost disguises; States was ruled by one
who Crown Princess Martha of Nor the serious task of mental slum. could play
had for a time a free clearance the political game way
to which they with the worst-and cherished run of the White House, and addressed.
Hyde Park. ***There wis, the ideals of the best.
Boys Gunther. "no hint of any- thing improper in this friend- ship."
Looking through Gunther's Jungle for the secret of Roose volt,
many readers will think
His daughter, Anna Boettiger, they have found it in that naive outburst of the President's: seems to have been the woman "Wouldn't you be President if closest to him in later life. you could? Wouldn't any-
His humour was robust, not subtle. body?"
#
The crippled man had found aport in which he WOA
Prowess,
chit-chat.
o When extrovert, ex-Oxford
Hia stories, which he told too about physical were theatrical pro-supreme, and, from whistle to often, nc. In America, he has solved to get back to Britain before undergraduate,
This book's launching. He's on his ducer
Ken
royalty TNYAN finished whistle, he loved every minute Cheaper books problem,
and social New York, writing from month his firm Issue two-volume way home
He That Playa The of the game, reprint of Robert Alone, same boat,
King," he took the manuscript Button-holed actor COWARD, taking to Paris, Hopkins," published in Britain Noel as "The White House Papers." time off from the theatre, has Orson WELLES, made him read Bantam Books Anished long-promised book of it. Warned Welles later you 25s. a volume,
"Star may take to drink and become stories, calls it
a critic. Guard against it." edition will cost public 35 cents short
each Quality." half a crown) (about volume. We hope to sell 500,- 000," saya Christiansen.
No novice at this form of Action is Coward. In New York,
G. N.
-{London Express Service)
Roosevelt diod the richest He liked to play cards: wat a
bad loser. He was VOIN President of the United States, worth $1,040,000 gros (£485 loquacious and is only known 200) plus $362,142 (£140,838) to have run out of conversation of life insurancee. At death ence-riding in a carriage with ho owed London bookshop glum, outgoing President Hoover, £92 and a London philatelist, Ho found Churchill "very gar
rulsun." urm 218.
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THEME FOR LORD MAYOR'S SHOW
Few areas in London, suffered, more. from Germina bombing during the 1910 blitz than the square mile" stretching from St Paul's Cathedral and the Guildhall to Cannon Street Station and the Bank of England. Most of the scars are still there today for all to see.
It is largely through this square mile that the tradi tional Lord Mayor's Show 'passes "on" Its way from the Guildhall to the Royal Courts of Justice, and this year's pageant, featuring Civil Defence and appealing for re craits once again, was given added poignancy by the grim reminders of the surroundings, All the citizen warriors of the Civil Defence Services were represented. -
Pictures show the proceselon on its way and some of the floats. Directly, above are seen the new Lord Mayor And Lady
lerman D. Lowson and Mrs Low: t'a banquet in the Guildhal
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