European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Armed guards watch Over mail in transit. Sixty thousand letters weekly Are handled by Stop 6200 which has reserved space on German u. S. Duty rain books informative documentation on India., the White House and Russia contained in factual and fictional books a unloading outgoing mail is part of duly of Gas who shuttle Back and Forth Between the Frankfurt railway station and the Neucom Headquarters building. Weekend March 27, 1948son of the Moon. By Joseph George Hitrec. 383 up. Harper new. York. S3. First novel which won the har per s prize award of 1948 is the contribution of a Yugoslavia writer Joseph George Hitrec to modern literature on India. Son of the Moon is an ambitious though not always wholly successful chronology of the philosophy of the Indian people to Gether with their political Progress an struggle for emancipation during the past two decades. There is much to recommended in the Book which seeks with the real  one who has lived among the people of whom he writes to present the problems of the indians today. At the same time since the author chose the novel form to express his ideas some of hot Long philosophical digressions detract from the Story. This still leaves much for the average Reader to enjoy for or. Hitre Chas made his India live with a vivid Ness which we Seldom grasp when Reading of foreign lands perhaps be cause their pictures Are too often drawn from the guide Book instead of  Ahe Case of. Or. Hitrec it is fairly Safe to assume that his characterizations Are authentic for he himself emigrated to India in 1933 and remained there until 1946. He has chosen As his main character a Young Indian aviator Vijay Ramsingh who has spent a couple years in England an returns filled with ideas of Civili  the Story is finely developed by an intelligent interweaving of the political and the romantic which show the Young aviator caught Between his love for his people and his anti nationalism. He rebels at the militant nation Alist Point of View characterized by his sister and the attractive Suffragette mme. Prashad. But he is not quit willing to escape being drawn Back into the hindu Way of life especially when it includes marriage. To Chanda fascinating daughter of mme.  the end he compromises by accepting his heritage in the belief that it is his Best Chance of helping to build the new India he dreams of. The Roosevelt years. By James Farley. 388-pp.-Whittlesey House new York. S3.50.this Story of the Man who made pos sible Rodsevelt s first nomination and election is an interesting study for students of Public affairs diplomats an historians. It is of Little value to politicians. They know All the answer Sand gripes. Smoothly written with the  Walter to Nahori of the Chicago Tribune Jim Farley the Able politician who wrote thousands of personal letter signed in Green Ink who travelled the country first naming thousands  tells his Story candidly Hon Estly but without any understanding of events which precipitated both the third and  terms. Farley split with for because his chief did not play the game according to the rules known to politicians. To Farley the politician world issues social problems within the country and the e will of the people mean Little. The rules of politicking mean everything. His Outlook is sort of the British old school tie on the level of the political machine. Genial Jim maintains that the 1940 democratic convention loathed the Job of re nominating  on the third term Issue Farley explains at length that the pres ident assured him he had no intention of seeking the third nomination. That was Early 1939. After War broke out Roosevelt assured him again that unless France and England were overrun he was through. However just before the democratic convention of june 1940. France was prostrate and Britai seemed beaten. Then Roosevelt announced his candidacy to Farley. Far Ley. Garner arid Hull All had presiden tial aspirations. The refusal of Roose velt to show his hand prevented the three from actively working toward their own nominations. By Farley s standards Roosevelt had violated the politician s code of ethics. The Basic difference Between the two men seems to have been summed up in the implication that politics was Farley s game while. Roosevelt took a serious position in a world crisis. They separated then not because of the social snubs claimed by mrs. Jim but because Jim Farley could not reconcile his standards of politics to a changing world. Russia in flux. By sir John May Nard. 564 up. Macmillan company new York. $6.50. A realistic Survey of nineteenth Century social thought in Russia is the Core of this outstanding Book which also analyses russian Industrial Progress of the last four decades. With objective understanding the late sir John May Nard traced the emergence of the rus Sian people from the Uncertain Tsa Rist Days to the confident Economy minded state of today. He held no particular briefs for communism but he saw it a capable of big things in the material life of Russia even As he deplored the diminution of Freedom of thought which it imposed on artists and , who died at the age of seventy eight in 1943, was a civil serv ice careerist who spent much of his life in India where he first became inter ested in the peasant masses. He had visited Russia in 1895, and returned inthe 1930s to collect the material for the two books which have been abridged into this one volume Russia Iri  a Man who spoke twelve languages he had thoroughly mastered the. Russian Tongue and which is More important the fundamentals of russian culture when he wrote the books. He knew the history of the  people its eco. Comics its ideas As Well As he grew  the. Individuals themselves. He understood the russian peasant wit whom Lay his deepest concern no less than the writers and artists of whom heals writes and he expose d the ideas of these classes with As much care an thought As he treated of the Slavo phils orthodox priests the tsars and the terrorists. The result is a chronology Woven into a vivid engrossing and startlingly human pattern of russian behaviour his message of Hope seems Tobe bolshevism marxism communism or tsar ism the peasant is the Backbone of Russia and the russian peasant does not change. _ mostly murder lady afraid. By Lester Dent. 191pp. Crime club Doubleday & co. New York. �2. R. Lester Dent has managed to pack action into the. Thrill Laden atmosphere of what might otherwise easily have been an unexciting detective Story. Lady afraid tells of. Sarah Liney ack who kidnaps her own child from the custody of its grandparents Only for him to Dis appear one hour later. Her fear for tit child s Safet a her sense of guilt for the crime she committed her desperate search to find the child again create suspense intensified by the fact he friends turn against her one by one when she seeks their help. Tension rises to an exciting Climax in a mad motor Chase in which she pursues her. Sons kidnappers the police pursue  and meanwhile she discovers she has a Corpse in the car with her. My love wears Black. By Octavus Roy Cohen. 205 up. The Mac Millan company new York. -�2.50. Occasionally / complicated plot mistaken to be the requisite for Good detective fiction by an eager writer who forgets How obtuse his ideas May turn out to All but himself. The criminal in my love wears Black is not the murderer of film Star Jean Rutledge husband who is found very dead one Morniing but or. Cohen himself who has sinned against the virtue of clarity. By cramming every conceivable situation into an unrelated Hodge podge he May have intended to prevent threader from unravelling the mystery until he was ready to present his so Lution unfortunately by the time he does nobody much cares any More who the criminal is. V 19