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BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Conscience

downs a Dictator

OMETIME or other oven tho most

placid

and genial man or woman has probably toyed pleasantly with the prospect involved in the thought, "If I were dieta- For the idea of clearing tor." up humanity's confusions and straightening things out has all the appeal of spring-cleaning to an energetic housewife.

Witness Professor C. E. M. Jond, who winds up a stimulating series with a volumo called The Dictator Resigns (Methuen, 35. Gd.), a study which is not only significant for its proposals but for the attitude of the author to his problem.

"I began this book," he confesses in a foreword, in the full Good of dictatorial enthusiari. Thin, I tok1 mykeit, I would do for mankind, and that uning human beings as raw material to be cut to the pattern of my schemes as a topiarist cuis bux-hedges to the patterns of bia impugination."

ite net out to increase the happi- es of his fellow-morinis; to abolish. or in large measure remove, war. poverty, inmine, pestilence, pain, dis ease, injustico, oppression. Insecurity and fees. And hu. was dictating very smoothly and satisfactorily-an paper

when something happened....

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PENING

second his chapter, he says, “I have Just read what I have written, and I know that I can Dover be a dictator." For be found the order that he was describing. system of coercion which

and in being widely

Increasingly used in certain countries, “unuttammbly and intolerably repulsive."

*The would-be dictator, then, has resigned. Ho cannot, he anda, use the dictator's methods. . appeal is to reason, not to faith. I weapon is perstinalon, not force."

Bo, for the latter link of his survey, Professor Jose necepta the Labour pro- gramme on the larger sues of war and peace, work and play, not for- getting to treat us to many provocative commenta on rural preservation, the restomtion of qutel, a revolutionary

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domestic policy and a liberal policy ul public and private fun.

That is, inevitably, merely an 'oul- iina of a reasonable, humane and ex- tremely human testament. The social proposals planned' in its pages, give. it importanco in themselves. But, to me, its significance lies in the fact that it is the first book I have come across by an Englishman which reveals the

that psychological revulsion

dicta- torship arouses in a civilised mind.

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ULK RAJ ANAND'S TÜ Coolio (Lawrence and

Wishart, 7a. Gd.) is the

second of three novels about India by an Indian. You may recall Un- Louchable, a remarkably restrained and moving story, of the casto- system. Its successor deals with another problem-the uprooting of peasants and the turning of them into industrial workers.

A final tale, All Ben Aro Equal, is promised-and, if it is as good as the first two, the trilogy should form a striking summary of what, in the opinion of ano Indian at any rate, the rule of the Raj na meant to his country.

The Coolle tells the story of Munco, an orphan hill-boy who walked from his village home into a sort of domestic .. slavery in the household of a Babu. Late in that kitchen was so unbearable that he ran away and found work in a primitive sweet-and-pickle factory in an almost feudal city.

Tis employers were kind, this time, but their concern was heavily in debt and he was abandoned when they went bankrupt. Manoo tried to pick up a living në a porter, but he was too puny for the heavy weights-and, at last, he was smuggled with some cir- eus luggage Into Bombay, to have his first introduction to machinery in, a cotton mill

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HERE he learnt a little about trade unionism and a lot about the riots between Muslims and Hindus when a strike byly wage-cuts was pending. He takes his leave of us in Bimla, where work an o rickshaw coalfe finally klực hlas.

A terrible picture of Indian life, in which the whitewash brush is not used

once.

Indeed, what strikes an English render Grat is the cruelty and mean- ness of all the Indians who are caught up in the British net from the Babu who cares for nothing but being like n white bank clerk to the wretched fac- tory" worker, who will strike his wife ́or his children because they cannot keep up the pace earn enough.... All solemn discussions about political conditions in India,seem completely irrelevant when you read this book. The overwhelming problem is-what happens to patient, helpless children ilke Munoo?

R. P.

Terror In Europe

ABCISM and Nazism are not less grimly real because there is so much heavy metodrama in their opera- tions. Witness such episodes as the Nari "blood purge" of June, 1933.

One must expect melodrama in plenty, therefore, in such a work na John L 8pivak's Europe Under the Terror (Gollancz, as, 63.). · This well- known American reporter tells of the horrors; above and beneath the surface, that be found, chiefly in Germany and Italy, during several months investiga- Lion.

What he discovered makes a terrible story which cannot be dismissed mercly because it reads like melodrama. Europe Under the Terror is a ple- ture whose very incredibility is its greatest recommendation A. LLE

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FRED BOWER, tho. author of an unusual autobiography, "Rolling Stonemason" (published to-morrow by Capo's).

GYPSY GUSTO

F anyone has succeeded in re-

futing the notion that a pro- fessor is necessarily an absent- minded dry-as-dunt stick-in-the- mud, it is Professor Walter Starkie of Dublin University.

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When holidays come round he fing his cap and gown into the corner and. alinging his Addle-case round Beck, begs his way through the low- ways and no-ways of Europe in search of gypales

In Don Gypsy (John Murray, 10s. 6d. he tells of his latest travela in Southern Spain. He has the genial temperament that all fat men pos ses, a lively and scandalous pen, and an almost incredible faculty for be coming involved in everybody else's (preferably adventurous) business.

I can best give idea of the gusto of his book by saying that he is fre quently 'quating. Itabelais and Cer Tantes, but, except for the typogra phical convention that distinguishes quoted matter from the rest of the text, you would never know which was quotation and which was original Blarkle.

The professor is just as at home dis cusing Picasso with an aristocratic banker in his palatial house on the Alhambra hill as he is exchanging dis reputable repartee with a gypsy shrew or appearing as a musical clown in a travelling circus at Santa Fé.

His book, a worthy successor

to.

Raggie-Tagule and Spanish Roggle- Toggle, as a special appeal to the musician, the antiquarian and the folk-terist

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RIVEN underground by the Nazis, the opposition harl in Germany has

to adopt a "dare-devii" system of secret propaganda, a kystem which in volves the daily deflance of death or torturs for the sake of an ideal

In Fires Underground (Harrap T. Od. Heina Liepmanu tells a hair- ralsing alory of spying and counter spying. conspiratorial meetings in night-clubs and.dance-halls, sceret, printing-presses, "planted" evidence and police rolda

The most exciting "crime thriller " fades into Insignificance beside tils document which has contemporary his- tory na ila background, living, but

heroca necessarily maineless,

and heroines us a characters and humant freedom as its moral.

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