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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1950.-
THE NEW BOOKS by DEE WELLS
The traitor who twisted history..
WITH royalty, no less, on his mother's side, W
Joseph was definitely "U." By 19 he had completed un excellent public school education, By 29 he had travelled widely, made influential friends, and was an important governor.
He did well. Too well. Sue- css corrupted him, and when
he math the big inoral decision
of his life he made the wrong one. He rides vil the enemy that necupled his country,
In business 12
traktor. Joseph termed his usual access.
He lived sumptuoumly in the enemy ruler's own palace. He married an heiress. And in his self-indulgent old qe Juseph devoted
ta writing Booktḥ, Boolea that tortuously rationalise his Infamy to "prove" he wasn't a trailer.
himself
WW 4.4
Who
he? A Vichyite general? A Jew who joined up with the Nazis?
WILLING PUPPET
Bul hlu Jocopli tuas a Jew. niche in history is further back, Moch further back. For Juseph was born only 37 pears after the death of Christ.
in
ho
Like Christ, he was born Israel. In every other way was as unlike Christ as it Inmanly possible to be.
Early in life Joseph decided
moocy
is
on A
BUT WHO
WAS
RIGHT?
THE pretty face belongs to Sheilah Graham, a £15,000. -year tollywood goalp columnist who started to as plain Lily Shiels-cockney wall. And wha, years later, was greeted by Constance Bennett's now-famous stacki “It's hard to beliere a prolly girl like you is the biggest bitch in tollywood."
Who was right about Shelláh Graham?
American writer Scoll Flizgerald, who fell in love with her The Margula of Donegall, who wanted to marry her? British Major John Giltam, who did marry her? British aircraft tycoon Trevor Westbrook, who did ilkewise T The Californian Pallah Uleguard who marded her too? Or Constance Bennelt 7
We may know the answer when we read Bheilatı Graham's autobiography BELOVED INFIDEL
above all, the sweet power.
smell
of
Abandoning his principles and country, J. epli became a Roman citizen and took Roman name Flaylus Josephus. From then or he was a willing puppet to the Roman emperors,
The honourable Jusephus became an historian- dis- honourable historian. But token with many grains of salt his
books are fascinating.
on
The smurt
Was Roman vletory
the OVE
His JEWISH WAR (Penguin Israelites. And in A.D.04 the Clanster. 3.), newly translated. year mad Nero watched Rome by G. A. Willumsan, does Lho burn-Joseph visited the great whitewash job of all time capital for the first time.
the Romans ruthless "It was kis too seductive for his tion of ancient Israel. provincial-yokel head not to bo
There WOS. for turnest.
Jonathan....
There were the charlat races, dinner partles, sophisticated
whtly malicious gossip,
CRIME SHELF
family will weep for me-they can't help it."
"Then they came to the last surviving colonnade of the Outer Temple. On this, woure′′N and Despite the short-livedoess of children... had found a re- mony in the east, The Jewish fuge-0,000 in all. The Roman War wears its near-2,000 years soldiers, carried away by their lightly. Unreservedly, I fury, fired the colonnade from commend this savage book. below. ... of the 6,000 there
escaped not one,"
Josephus's very next sentence? "Their destruction was due to a false prophet who that very day had commanded them 10 go
up into the Temple...."
NOT SO PLACID
Not, one notes, "due" to the bloodthirsty Romins. domino-
Or, even "duo" their flaming torches, But "lue" to ata anonymous Jewkeh priest who herded women and children from streets ankle- A deep in blood to what he hopest Jow would be the safety of the
example,
Jonathon was a nobody. and sight, spindly legged
THE BURNING OF TROY. Malcolm Gafr. Collins, 10%, 60.—— red by an eccentric multi- millionaire to trace an opal which once belonged to the Empress Josephine, private de- tective Mark Raeburn satisfies both his employer and his admirers after a trans-European chose.
driven to courage by sheer colonnade root. desperation. His home rounded by Roman Invaders, be con- "stepped forward, heaped tempt and abuse on the heads of the Romans, and challenged the bravest to single combat."
Pudens
The Romans jeered and a ravalry soldier named stepped forward nonchalantly.
RELENTLESS
When not slanting "history," Josephus acts down in horren- truc alories bat donis detall make the land of the Bible seem anything but a placid country of milk and honey.
His tale of the rise and fall of King Herod (not the baby- murderer; an even more mur- derous, liter Herod) is typical.
With two wives, and sons by Fighting like a manlar, Jona- each, his relgu was a succession than ran hig sword clean of intrigues and murders. He through the Roman. And himself "miraculously excaped D shrieked his challenge again. violent end, but he gTWIN old
This was more than the and was slowly dying.
• VENETIAN BLIND. William
A sablier Haggard. Cassell. 10. 6d. Remens could take.
DFTOW straight at Steret-Service thriller completa almed on
and Jonathan's heart. With tycoons, toughs
dis-
And Josephua's opinion of his brunettes, written by a tinguished civil servant whose brave, fellow Jew's fate?
"Jonathan, spinning round in memoranda, on this showing, must be the joy of his Whitehall is agony, fell... clear proof thin in tear undeserved miccess culleagues,
Instantly brings on start the vengeance of heaven."
THE HOURS AFTER MINI- NIGHT. Joseph Hayes, Andre Deutsch. 104. Co-Buttle of
nerves
As the terrible stege of Jeru salem is ending in Roman victory, Josephua similarly de- between a stuttering scribed another scene. psychopath and the father of the teenager whom he has kidnapped ende in a fireworks-Anale of shooting, leaving the readers almust us tensed up with excite tient the duellists.
new!
The city is heaped with corpset, Survivors are starving, The Roman Army, moves for word relentlessly burning their way towards the heart of the
walled city.
T
Herod decided that if he must die, he would die in a blaze of glory. And what better way to provide this than by a great display of mourning?
Only..
who was to mourn?
Everyone hated him, and he knew it. Now mad, barely able in get about, Herod "sent for his sister Sator and said: 'I know the Jews will greet my death with tolld rejoicings. But I can be mourned.... and make sure of a magnificent funeral, if you will do ur 1 tell you. ...
His plan *was monstrously simple. His soldiers were to round up thousands of hostages. These would be slaughterodi
“........., then all Judea and every
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⠀⠀AN INNOCENT IN A MADHOUSE ..
· BUT IT WAS REWARDING FOR HAROLD. ROSS
THE YEARS WITH ROSS, By James Thurber, Hamish Hamilton, 10s. 274 pagar. HA
TAROLD ROSS was the founder and, for 26 years, the editor of the New Yorker. He was, by general consent, a great editor and, on the testi- mony of many friends and a few enemies, a great character.
James Thurber, who worked for years with this exasperating and inepiring journalist, writes an affectionate account of his friend." The book is full of Thurber and Ross,
The New Yorker published a
When Ross fathered A daughter, IL worried him. "Goddam it, I can't think of any man thal hos daughter,"
by
THOMSON
GEORGE MALCOLM
All of them worthy
The kind of man who`zervėd them as leader of the Movement is better understood afler read-
If, in the last 50 pages or so, it' sophisticated, yet its founder was thinks it meant got-away-from-thinking. falters and flags, do not complain curiously innocent. "Is Moby the-world-of- women money. and important causes...‚' too loudly, Alrendy you have Dick the whale or the man?" he been given a full, amply flius- asked, trated and intensely individual portrait of a remarkable man, his talent and hla ́ folbica.
a young man and a girl carry- "An editor is a man strangely ing back seat of a motorcar caught between frustration and and saying to a policeman, fulfillment. He knows-nobody. "Omeer, I report the theft of an elso does the kind of publien- automablie," tion he wants. Yat he mutt realize this vision through others, who do not share his ideal, Sometimes they think they do.
cartoon by Peter Arno showing Thurber calmed hip down by ing a book which tells how Bo85
| which makes matters worse i
Kept sex out
Was Ost
In some cases, on cditor is Incapable. of effective Eterary expression -- Ross example—yet he must make olher men wrile at their best. even when they believe that al- ready, they have produced a masterpiece, lo tamper with which would be stupid, if not worze. An editor creates through criticism.
implication. Everybody but Ross, Everybody understood the whe went about demanding why nobody had told himi This, as every schoolboy In New Yorks knew, was Scx. And Sex was on intruder Ross meant to keep
only
Painting out, "Jack Dempsey has two children, both girls,"
A Movement
depressed word."Goddam 1. A But Rosa had the Anal, use the Idea of going around
with female hormonés in me,”
Boukht undlessly for someone who would impose order on the chaotle New Yorker office,
Would, at the #lightest oppor- tunity bawl; "The system's broken down."
Was swindled by his secretary
of 72,000 dollars.
Feared the intelligentala and the precious ("Never leave me
one with poets").
influence of a sirung-minded Bold and wearing himself out. mother. To her he explained his for the Movement, came un-- late hours by saying that he timely to stomach ulcers and belonged to a men's sewing club death. that met at night.
This dominating, man was as out of his magazine or, to admit might be expected, under the
under the closest sur elltonce.
Discussing some guilty pair, he said, "I'm sure he's a-f-e-e-p
-- with her," He was ther only man Thurber knew who spelled out euphemisms in front of adults.
That the New Yorker offe When a colleague, having had was a madhouse occurred to as much as he could take of the mony. Nono more then -tó explosive Rosa temper, proposed Harold Ross. But it was G to resign, Ross said: "You can't purposeful, diverting and vastly Itu Movement."
quit. This isn't a magazine. It's rewarding madhouse. From thạ journalist's point of view, a successful poper is one in which all the fun is not squandered on the customers.
shoot of his fear of women.
Distrust of Sex was an off-
was said that, after his death Ross was creating a humorous (1051) a considerable sum of A Movement for what? For re-workly of a new kind, Yet his money was found in an envelope wit, sincerity, good grammar, own humour had a limited range. In a safe-deposit vault marked, careful punctuation, absence of The New Yorker was highly "Getaway money." Thurber folie sentiment and muddled
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BY
弟弟
JACKY MENDELSOHN
AGE 3/21⁄2
((London Express Service).
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Your Friend, JACKY