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BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Conscience

downs a

Dictator

OMETIME or other even the

placid most

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

Witness Professor C. E. M. Joad, who winds up a stimulating scries with a volume called The Dictator Resigns (Methuen, 34, 64.), a study which is not only significant for ito proposals but for the attitude of the author to his problem.

"I began this book," he confesses in a foreword, in the full flood of dictatorial enthusiasm. This, I told myself, I would do for mankind, and that, ing human beings BA TAW material to be cut to the pattern of my schemes as a toplarist cuts box hedges to the patterns of his imagination."

IIe set out to increase the happi- ness of his fellow-mortals: to abolish. or in large measure to remove, war. poverty, famine, pestilence, pain, dis- caso, injustice, oppression. Insecurity and fear. And he was dictating very smoothly and satisfactorily-on paper

when something happened....

O

his

second

TENING chapter, he says, "I have just read what I have written, and I know that I can never be n dictator." For he found the order that ha was describing. & Aystem of eoercion which

boing widely and increasingly tised in certain countries, "unutterably and intolerably repulsive."

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"The would-be dictator, then, haus resigned. He cannot, he finds, use the dictator's methods.... His appeal is to reason, not to faith. His weupon is persuasion, nol force."

Bo, for the latter half of his survey, Professor Joad accepts the Labour pro- gramme on the larger sautes of war and peace, work and play. not for- getting to treat un to many provocative comments on rural preservation, the restoration of quiet, in revolutionary

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That is, inevitably, merely an out- line of a reasonable, humans and ex- tremely human "testament. The social proposals planned in its pages give Importance in themselves. But, to

me, its significanes lies in the fact that It is the first book I have come across by an Engilahman which reveals the psychological revulsion that dicta- torship arouses in n civilised mind,

ULK RAJ ANAND'S The Coolle (Lawrence and

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Wishart. 7. Od.) is the second of three novels about India by an Indian. You may recall Un- touchable, a remarkably restrained and moving story of the caste system. Its successor deals with another problem--the uprooting: of peasurits and the turning of them into industrial workers.

A final tale. All Men Are Equal, is promised—and, if it is as good as the drat two, the trilogy should-form striking summary of what, in the option of one Indian at any rate, the. rule of the Raj has meant to his country.

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

His employers were kind this time, but their concern was heavily in debt and he was abandoned when they went bankrupt. Munoo tried to pick up a living an n porter, but he was too pany for the heavy weights-and, at last, he was smuggled with some cir- rus luggage into Bombay, to have his first introduction to machinery in a cotton will.

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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 over wage-cuts wis pending. He takes his leave of us tú Simla, where work as a rickshaw coolie finally kills him...

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

Indeed, what strikes an English render first is the cruelty and mean ness of all the Indians who are caught up in the British net, from the Bibu who cares for nothing but being like a white bank clerk to the wretched fuc Mary "worker, who will strike la ̈wife or his children because they cannot keep up pace or earn enough.

All solemn discussions about political conditions in India seem completely irrelevant when you read this book. The overwhelming problem b--what happens to patient. helpless chlidren like Munoo?

R. P.

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FASCISM and Nazism are not less grimly real beenuse there is so much heavy melodrama in their opera. tions. Witness auch episodes as the Nazi blood purge" of June, 1933,

One must expect melodrania In plenty, therefore, in such a work no John L. Spivak's Europe Under the Terror (Gollancz, 83, Ò3). This well- known American reporter tells of the terrors, above and beneath the surface. that he found, chiefly in Oermany and Italy, during several months investiga

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

GYPSY GUSTO

Fanyone has succeeded in re- futing the notion that a pro- fessor is necessarily an absent- minded dry-as-dust stick-in-the- mud, it is Professor Walter Blarkle of Dublin University.

When holidays come round he flings his cap and gown into the corner and, iddle-caso round his slinging hi

neck, bega. his way through. the low. ways and no-ways of Europe in search: of gypsies

In

Murray. Don Gypsy (John 105. Gd.) he tells of his latest travels in Southern Spain. He has the genini temperament that all fat men pos Bess, 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 an idea of the gusto of his book by saying that he is fre quently quoting Rabelais and Cer vantes, 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 Btarkic.

The professor is just as at home dia cussing 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 cireus at Sants Fé.

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Raggle-Tapolc and Spanish Raggle- Taggle, has a special appeal to the musician, the antiquarian and the folk-lorist.

But, chiefly, it appeals to those par lour adventurers like myself who would rather range the world in an armchair than nibble unsatisfactorily at actual exploration with a guide who would never dare to take me into even one of the kind of places Professer Starkie discovers on almost every other page.

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RIVEN underground' by the Nazis, the opposition in Germany has had

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In Fires Underground farmap. 76. 6d. Heinz Llepmann tells a hair- raising story of spying and counter- meetings in spying, conspiratorial night-clubs and dance-halls. secret printing-presses, "planted *· evidence and police raids.

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