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In America, in six months, it sold 200,000

Columbia Pic cupies. tures, buying the story for $250,000, Bays:

is the most im- portant motion picture property in 16 years." The American critics "Better raved. Jus than Gone With The Wind." they said. "Great," "Greater," "Greatest."

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'Bowdlerised'

ML1, what is this all about? Why the fuss? The Look by MacKinlay Kantor, Who Wing The Best Years of (34 Loves." and it is called (W. H. ANDERSONVILLE Allon, 20.3. I have two copies

deak right now of it on ny

The English and the Anx tlcan

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The incheta ace rimling.

flat hanves jais wight both books

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The American #th So, making allow an e server American pochte- tion, e would ray something has been taken ou

They look like have 708 pager.

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I have now had both,

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word) you will see that here and the re waru, L lient, a peglect or two have d. Inaly cut out by ຕ elever Fellow with a resipel. "Howeller haal" in the word `be- ause Mr Bowle caer treated t. 1 wurk of Shakespeare in Fis way

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ment

Like Belsen

Iva

THOUSAND THIRTY

wore herded inter this spot, loured, starved, and beaten, also breame hop.lensiy 'They clisensed. They died like files.

Their suffering- were every bit as bad on Belsen, u shukinist pri on antips as the notorious

of the Korean war.

1:log were not But thes done by Chinese Communis a

The things Nat tois Une were dune by the South to the Civil War, by North Americans to Americans about 100 years ago.

Fair enough. This is a story, ther, that tds to be lat, wi

complacat we all get too Apparently it has already been (There are 15 old 85 times

Art.rsu.valke aboul books usled in Kantor's bibllography.) is new about Muc- So what Katlay Kantor', sloty?

Kantor

Is 52, all, biond, of

Swedish - Аико Jewish-

He is married Tush extinction

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MR HUXLEY FINDS A BEACH SECRET

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By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

still his

he

shocking lore; pessimistic; "Ignorance and ineficiency," almost

too

(Eastern myUcism).

one essay.

How in

To any cut the main pattern of disintegration, deglacation,

"Offshore THE

from the

noble intercats AND and discase he has followed ADONIS

less was the outfall through He is more learned than ever, ALPHABET. By of the sort of

Aldous beech the fortunea

which Los Angeles discharged, as urbone, kes inventive, nctional people who might hang

Huxley, Chatto and Win-

raw and untreated, the contents satirical, all the master of un- and turns of phrase expected around a prison camp in

dus. 181, 285 pagos.

of its sewera." Deep South.

Huxley fcd from the horrid uncomfortable turns of thought. *Famagusta, he says, open- There is the loent turi, the

【UXLEY, at 62, sight acd even

horrid more

"reminded me Widow Tebb: and her brood,

embodies in ha Claffey.

smells and wrote an cusy on ing in a but.

Tolstoy's dialike of cleanliness; Irrestitidy of MGM's back lot elegant, six - foot -

Shakespeare's dislike of the at Culver City." A trip to Suit

described a H mad

frume the out. working class, the sewage system Lake City The good, four beautiful daughter.

post Ugh. I can look of the

1914-18 of Mohenjo-Daru (3000 B.C.); passage which begins, "Among ale, thin doctor,

Needless to say.

the writing est is the history of Mormon- almost ste the Bit Part Players war. He is inquisitive; full and the nth of London in 1836, tall stories surely one of the tall- and th Grea, Sirs seromas of strange and sometimes shape and whi

ism." The big Monnon Temple his evocative dcleats In their eagerness for these Re-

by "a certain combina- the power warding Roles.

writes are among

and tion of oddity, dullness But this is not a movie. This a pacifist and one who ob

strongest bulwarks of liberty." Stream of stinately believes that i prize-winning

Huxley, just married for the monumentality,"

Graceful curves Cor eu nes N vei vech is many bables come into the

have to follow these world and

too little food second time, lives in a mountain-

top home in California, pocking The art of conversation is the through

Al his typewriter (learned, like art of not staying long in the weli their comes out of the soil.

118 IN

place. Huxley's some mental The old bogy is still houring Braille, when he thought he was You can And, us

talking

his in

well-managed are like pret they misty ve impure, Huxley (page 213 of his new going blind),

volce, listening with says

they conversations; "IL bank of (Lys):

pects beautiful

graceful curves like a river thoughts.

nimble pretty ecrtain that, as a larger some reluctance, the printer's

Herbert with a good conservancy board. He harter population mines

approves

Thus what began as a de desperate search Spencer's custom of taking car-

Adonis renipet....

Suear of Cemeiarneas, in- the anal in

pro- stoppers when he went out to scription of the River discussion Them

in becomes a Stream of Sewage more for took the destructive sted.

cesses of erosion and deforests- dinner and plugging

when the conversational level alphabet and ends in a mystical kely

more lity The

wrlle up to will be spelded up."

fen. 111 mountain home 16 recognition of the "getherness Not any more bonat hub as though it were

without a telephone. Romance I shall

Huxley

pul that iden sruped-up

ATU- in yer top complaining

Korward six years ago, he was sartal was the first to offend me

Lae Vanguard modern we hove This month.

aught Not now. Net any more. ...Now

In the inst 13 years the po MacKinlay Kantor..

has in- Who on earth do they think

350 estimated creased by they are to mess arcand with pulation of the world

should be million. And He hath? The truth

There are 1,000 hough for anyone,

million bu hels of wheat stored in the granaries of Canada alone. Huxley is in the wry posture of a religious leader who announced the time and place of The second coming-and

must now explain his apparent error. Алу other change 1/ his status? Yes. Thirty years ago a London newspaper cbserved in horror that he "refers to matters 10 which decent-minded folk do not rofer."

wars

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17 he helped his ino'h ̈r hubad newspaper. He has

In two wins, wit looks, belongs to ny set politi-

Fyr Viglun.

ad

The world's cruel geed w.es Two-thirds richest of world's Ballon (Amilca) have that of less inci mer

$1,500.

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cum-

I believe fortable Income is thu greu est sustaining the- or which an individual may have.

Th

grine..nt Kinter

remarks

pute his own work by

philosophy to writing, instead good,

of

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simple,

well-

plere

a

luch,

Why? Obviously because the publi-ner and printer thought

documented sime of Mr MacKinlay itat

non-fictios, words were tog bud Junter's for English to se,

over written melu.

Que right too They were. ful there are, olas, plenty of w. fell to disgras even the banek minded English reader.

"Amier coville," they say, is a tue story.

It tul about a concentration camp in a swamp.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE STUDY

OF BIRDS NESTS IS MORE FUN THAN

BIRD WATCHING.

SOMEBODY MUST HAVE

TOLD HIM

IT WAS

GROUND HOG

DAY.

drama

has made

that keep

quite this book

in

Fore will

him As comfort.

I the main true. crust, loul s.ory were not enough,

MACKINLAY KANTOR

Nature Study

BUTTERFLY ENTHUSIASTS SPURRED ON BY

BUMBLE BEES.

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bas

Intensely serious, Huxley still lilees to heck, a diversion

of the frivolous. But it is harder now.

old of his He retains some sessions: theology, drainage,

MAX

in Amer.co.

of

Ware

s

of tho

stimulating

of all things."

Stylish, readable,

the old fro- lived since 1937, he has found Huxley may incl employment (ilm script writ- works and may have a moralis! at his claw, Ing) light (his eyes suffer in forever lurking

Ho is still a considerable writer, the dim English weather); new

The Perfect Official

Made One Blunder

34

By CHARLES WINTOUR

усага д

a green baize table.

Apart from his capacity work, Strang other qualities

humm out a vent.

and

for

possessed many marked which model elvil por

HOME AND ABROAD. By Mir Eden's we next day,

with Vyshinsky Lord Strong. Published by then wrestling Andre Deutsch, 21, 320 most of the next night around pagos,

the his Foreign Office, Lord Strang spent only nine abroad. For the other 25 years he was working in the loreign Office itself.

Clearly his superdera

(cund hin invaluable at handling the ever-increasing flood of Paper that today seem the method

discuss them. of conducting foreign policy, 33

His industry was tremendous. "I remember waking one night in the email hours with a draft buzzing in my head, and rising and committing it to paper for

Truth dawns

In the opening of one essay in Huxley is the present volume, walking long

beautiful, Californian strangely empty beach with Thomas Mann, First one symptom and then another

their senses. Impinged last the truth dawns:

on

At

BY HARRY WEINERT

TADPOLES

ARE NOT MUCH TO LOOK AT — BUT WHO CARES?

COFR. 1934 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORE, THAWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

THIS TYPE OF NATURE STUDY OPENS UPA

WHOLE NEW.WORLD FOR THE FISH.

"HMMM-AT LEAST

THEY HAD

DARN GOOD

TAXIDERMISTS

IN THOSE

DAYS/

essential British

Discretion.

and Burgesa Meclean, who disappeared when Lie Foreign he was head of

only to Office, are mentioned explain why the author will not

on

Α

4. He lays little stress his achievement in rising from an Essex village school to the diplomatic heights.

Loyalty.

sympathetic portrait of Bevin makes one of The best chapters in the book Some of the Bevinisms he quotes would do credit to Sam Goldwyn, When the Council of Europe was being discussed Beyla burst out, "I don't like it. I don't like it. When you open that Pandora's box you will find it full of Trojan horses."

Kindness to Juniors Ho even urges a wider distribution of peerages, and decorations to British diplomats abroad. (In 1910, there were 10 ambassa- dors; two were peers; all were Privy Counciliers; all had the GCB; and alne had the GCMG.. In 1055

none were petru, none" were PCs or GCBS.)

And,

above all he is cool, dispassionate and lucid.

Yet, despite his high qualities, Lord Strang must be conviated of one major blunder near the apex of his career. He was the British

ropresentative on the European Advisory Commission, the war-time body of three great powers entrusted with drawing up the German sur render terms, including the zone boundaries. It was this body which failed to make any pro- vision for Western communi- cations through the Soviet zone with Berlin. It was an omission that was to lead the West to the brink of war, in 1948.

His defence.-'. Strang's defence of this omis Talon is werk. He says the

Commission assumed

There would be a central German' authority which would have Involved some free movement from zone to zono, And he adds that his delegation received" no

Talso Instructions to

thig question.

Bariter, however, Strang saya be was the only one of the three representativce who had to organke the preparation of his

Own

instatim rape ::

received no

viel

on this point, he must, sbara the

Further whatever

Lone

the Briush indy/have made about free movement bolwe en the zones, their opthalim¦¦ was not shared by: Lisir American colleagues. Ls May 1944, the late John Wirant, the Aindricati representative on" EAC, "advo» cased in Washington for the preparation of detailed; provi bione-safeguarding: accCÍOKS, LO Berlin by road, rail and air,'ha This proposal was turned down by the American.

But the authorities

considered the never referred

∙Lord'

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