European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sincair Lewiss latest novel rips into the thorny problem of racial intolerance and bigotry in a midwestern City eng blood by Sinclair 348 random Sinclair whose position in american letters Hast been noticeably enhanced by any of his More recent has returned to the booksellers shelves with a new novel in which he shows a for the according to the publishers King blood Royal is the Story of a Man who resumed the White Neil Kings Wood is a Young midwestern Bank executive on his Way he and his wife Vestal and their Small daughter look Forward to a uneventful until the Day Neil Dis covers his  was a he discovers Ironi Cally in doing some research into his family history to prove his name signifies descent from English there is a Long Strugg e with and Neil decides to disclose the fact he suffers the Blind intolerance of the town and of per sons who had once professed to be his his negro some More intelligent and better educated than warn Tom of what it Means Tobey negro in a White mans world in conversations that teach him the sub titties of class distinctions within class distinctions and racial prejudices that lie within racial the brutality of the Whites proves it to him for when anti negro sentiment Sinclair Lewis erupts in the King blood is one of the first to feel its the Issue is As it inevitably is in Lewiss into a Battle to preserve the integrity of the individual against the hostile forces of the the writers Well taken Point is that every Community contains the germs of racial intolerance and when the disease Breaks out Man is a Rattler ugly sight in Lewiss handling of the problem that has been dealt with frequently by serious american write sit May Well be that in his enthusiasm to show the moral degeneration that bigotry inflicts upon he has overreached the limits of realistic the circumstances Are contrived Witt a heavy hand and the cards incredibly stacked against the King blood had been put on record As holding Strong anti negro prejudices before he finds out about his own the novel eventually turns into a tract rather than a novel after its first Hall never it is an Tough novel of a very critical Issue in american and it is still a spectacle to watch the old master deftly scaling Down the Genus Homo americans to a Small bundle of Nasty the official pictorial his tory of the by the historical office of the army ail Sloan and a graphic record of the development of american military aviation from the use of recon Naissance balloons in the civil War to the Jet As the title and author ship it is an statistical devoted in great part to air planes themselves and poke level the text is profusely illustrated with pictures of air relatively few of them in com Bat the rather startling Price of the Book May be explained by the fact that royalties Are to be assigned to the army air forces Aid bookends according to information disclosed by 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from Page 5 including the govern ments of the United states and great seemed to support to the peasant party claims concerning the elections by boycotting the opening of the polish parliament last Spang the operations of the terrorist gangs inthe South and East of Poland apparently have dwindled away following the amnesty Declara Sof the government a few months the few gangs that Are still operating today would seem to genuinely criminal elements with Little or no political socially and Cul Poland is trying to pull herself up by her Bootstraps to above her 1939 standards within the to do this we save nationalized and Par celled out our Large says charged with out Poland three year who claims that these two big changes Are his country Only Home was a mix official before the fled to France when the Ger Mann wed and escaped to England via he is a Aims of the three year he Are to unify Poland old Central territory with that of the newly acquired use the Standard of living and revive Industry and Poland was a country without he what Little we had went in the Early f the no nor farm five per cent of her prewar y of horses and cattle and by breaking up the huge Sny of them held by Absentee land and parcel Ling them out m 4 Way that one Man could till and tend action wit ii a single the Only answer in utilizing the land to is advantage to feed the people of he by government control of big in Poland has been a e to put together several intact factories out of of ruins of old and to assemble allocated factory reparations from Germany More quickly get them Bobrowski three year plan is on Bobrowski Points in spite of bottlenecks m transportation act m securing raw in heavy Poland has equalled or exceeded her prewar level in almost set instant it is pounds boast that her Rich deposits of if would fill most of Europe s s in Exchange for Coal Poland is getting horses and farm livestock from the scandinavian countries and through her exportation of Coal Hopes to barter for much needed raw materials in every Field that she is Short huge quantities of furniture Are being exported to England and an american firm bought a million Dol Lars Worth of China from a polish concern at the International Industrial fair at poof Tan last Poland s first fair since in the Field of More land is under cultivation than in although those engaged in tha persuit is ten per cent education shows signs of Poland has eight thousand More teachers than she had before the War and seven thou Sand More plus three thousand new agricultural while Poland has More Hospital health centers and clinics than she had in she still has far fewer than her Supply of nurses and doctors is far below the prewar your Man on the Street or woman in the shop May or May not agree on the motives and results of nationalization and the breaking up of Poland s huge but on one National Issue there is unanimity no matter what the individuals political that is that Poland Western Boun Dary is set for All if Neces the pole will fight to preserve by terms of the Potsdam Poland ceded to Russia that her country which fell East of the i Iron in Exchange she was Given a slice of including East part of Silesia and million germans were ousted from this territory to make room Lor five million who Call them selves pioneers and in the space of two years have made it their in Warsaw it is said that the government can gauge its support by the fierce popular reaction against any claims by the Western allies that German yes Eastern Border May not As yet be As in most of a cig Aret is an expensive luxury a packet of polish made from forty to two Hundred zlotys Jurty Cente to two available at almost every Warsaw sell for 240 zlotys a wout of reach for the average a pole jul never stoop to you dropped your cigarette citizen sat american officer who of toe Polonia hotel flicking three quarters of his smoke into the this is the first of two articles on the Poland of the second we appear next 19