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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1956.

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BOOKS 1

Where Only The Wicked Know What They Want

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By RICHARD LISTER

Germany during the Occupation.

OFF LIMITS. By Hani Habe, labe, who was a refugee from cratic lesson; bai a starving and Hiller's Germany and worked homeless conimunity has atten- Harrap. 15. 418 pages. with the Americans, keeps in tion only for the wherewithals HIS brond, panoramie the circumstances a remarkably of living, and the Americans are admired only for their vust clear hood. Hovel gives IL very He docan'l

mtamise the supplies which become the main the vivic, detalled and brutalities,

hardships, Die source of corruption. the corruption From The ubble injustices and

ona the absorbing picture of life in which Inevitably accompanied ruins the dnzed Inhabliants Southern

with the

watch Occupation; but he appor-

their conquerors tions the blame equally between narrowed eyes, and soon have

Evidence for conquerors and conquered,

beileving The

by in these“ conquerors 1

beller 110 experience

and stupidity: the "those were, and so justify conquered by opportunism and their indifference. Indiference,

There are the tough-mindexi, 100

pocket

resisters centred round a young doctor, The story is clearly and inter- Adam Wild, whose watchword terestingly strung on a large remains the same as it was number of representative chur- under the Nazis, "Obey little, acters from each nation; some resist much."

Bavarin was in the American Zone, and the author, Hans

A British Crossword Puzzle

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| INSECTICIDES, SPRAY GUNS, MAND PEST BOMBS

SOME COOD

arc

of

that than

good, some bad, but most of But Adam realises the big them different shades of grey. difference.

He may find him Colonel

inter, heut of the self wrongfully imprisoned, ill- American Intelligence, with an treated, half-starved, but at ambitious wife; the American-

can least at the end of it he won't German

on Major Green, his be bundled into a gas-chamber.

Habe keeps

Eber

Mr

tho

tension

Inect second-in-command; Hans the rebellious son of a reinstated taut and the balance firm well Nazi banker; Cotone! von on into the book. Naturally in Sibelius, 4 a hero of the Twentieth so broad canvas there ja tiot of July; trene, the wife of a much room for

Bubtlety of concentration camp commandant detail; and he loses grip a Ïttle, -wo follow the Interlocking 1 and, towards the end as the fortunes of these and a host of Cold War develope.

others caught up In the maelstrom.

These stories alone hold the reader throughout.

The

TOO EASY

Ila characterisation becomes

his

A

But what the author is con- a little alicker, his judgments a

shado cerned with behind the story is

ΠΟΤΟ sentimental, Justice, and the Impossibility of solution somewhat too easy. achieving it in a world where Nevertheless, this remalna only the wicked and the criminal most striking novel which will kuow exactly what they want carry you into the heart of a and how to get it,

good world of choos where con- and the tair-minded are always sciences are perplexed in the tripping over Inconsistencies, extreme; and the author's skill stumbling against irreconcil as novelist

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evokes this world ables, Juggling with com~ in terms of abstracts "and promises.

arguments, but of sufficiently The Americans arrive, brash real people faced with dread- and Idealistic, determined to fully real and dreadfully dif- teach the vanquished the demo- ficult problems,

not

CORFU FLASHPOINT

By George Malcolm Thompson

MY FAMILY, AND OTHER vice, but rarely to be tempted

ANIMALS. By

Gerald into executive action; Lesilo, 19, with a vocation for tirearms; Durrell. Rupert Hart Morgo, 18, a martyr to acne and Davi, 16s. 256 pages. love; and Gerry, whose lite was devoted to living things that THE ve Durrells lived for five crawi, fly, swim, burrow, buzz

years in Corfu: Mother, a and sting. tolerant and resillent widow;

with every

THE

Corfu, swarming

Larry, 23, an irritable young kind of Insect, was just the man of letters, free with ad- island for a young naturalist.

+

BY HARRY WEINERT

"COUNTING OUR TIME AND LABOR THOSE TWO JARS OF TOMATOES COST ABOUT TEN-SIXTY

PER JAR /

TIM TELLING YOU THIS IS

INDIAN SUMMER.

"DON'T FORGET

THE JAR OF CUCUMBERS-

LOOKS LIKE A HARD WINTER.

DESPITE ALL EFFORTS TO SABOTAGE THEM,

{THE MOTHS

HAD ANOTHER GOOD SEASON.

SEZ YOU-

INDIAN SUMMER COMES IN NOVEMBER

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But, as things turned oUL the Durrells, unconventional but hardly unobtrusive, have almost crowded the lower creation out of their Bitlo brother's comic saga of the Corfu expedition.

Fleeing from the Bournemouth winter, the Durrells exhibited their baggage

the Greek Customs_authorities, eg., Leslie,

a pair of trousers wrapped round two revolvers: Larry, two trunks of books and a brief-case con- taining his clothes; Margo, throe books on silmming; Gerry, a butterly pet, a jam jar full af caterpillars, etc.

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ADOPTED BY CREEK Soon after landing, the tomiy was adopted by a vost Greck named Spiro, who adored Mother and spoke a variant of Chicago- English in which almost words were plural. Spiro dealt masterfully with the Customs. “Dulys? What you means, dutys? Is it your dutys to attacks Innocent foreigners, ch? Treats them like mugglers, eh? That's what you call dutys?"

For Mother, the Corfu years must have been strenuous: Larry would invite friends to stay without warning her and-- to solve the resulting accommó- dation problem insist that the family move to a large villa, and later (a disagreeable relative at Mother's having invited herself), back to a smaller one,

Margo

affairs:

had a series of love

One with a

Turk, which worried Sphro: "Gollys, Mrs Durrell, whats wrongs with it? HC á Turk. He'll cut her

throats, Honest

that's what, he'll do. to Gods, Mre Durrell, it's not safe,

mings with his Margo swim- For Gerry Corfu was the parest bila hoopitable peasants who thought that every little English boy was 'n little English Jord, taught him peasant eaNGS, REFUSED TO FLY

There was also the lower creation; the love, life of tortoises,uniginly, but fascinat ling to n bóy of 10; Quasimodo, the aircon who renner to in and. Khaving been... presumed male, laid an eng, after which nature changed completely. Greatest moments of all in nature study came when Gerry found a female scorpion covered vykih tíny, babics, and took the treasure home in a matchboor forgetting all about it until Larry wanted to light

One of the most explosive, moments in the history, of thố Corfu expedition had arrivedžis

This book belongs to a familian kype, EsUmorous lumpiola of the dotty family

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