European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse He postwar problems of civilization Are considered 01lization on trial. By Arnold a Toynbee. 263 up. Oxford University _ press new York. $30. A analysing the world situation today i if. Toynbee has brought into play Bis knowledge of the history of Civill Aton to predict its future. Pointing that the human race has been in Stence on this planet for at least,0,000 and perhaps a. Million years he he can conceive of / at least an a 500 billion years of human exist a on that premise he sees All thet r of the possibility thai Man May heading toward Wanton self destruct through ignorance. As a solution i urges that time be bought by Corn ise during which the economic of finding a Middle Way Between Enterprise and socialism might be. Mph 8. Suggests that Western Europe sow caught Between the giant Powers the United states and \ the soviet he loves her to pay the Bills. In order to keep up with Dodo s financial needs Oliver spends a fruitless exhausting year prostituting his Art by editing comic strips and himself by following the ungrateful Dodo s every whim. Through his eyes the Reader meets the socialites that Dado hankers after. There is some doubt for a while that he will escape the clutches of this form of life but at last he returns to himself and honest writing. Noted in passing A. Russian journal. By with pictures by Robert. Capa. 220 up. Viking new York 3.75. a human pleasant chronicle of the dual Journe to the user taken by Steinb Eck and Capa and of the people they met and the things they saw. There is much about everyday life matters of russian life. A dominant fact which emerges is the Complete ignorance coh coming America which the average. Russian has and his fear that United Spates May attack Russia. could do this. In his eyes it could ave Western civilization by bringing the economic task practical Intelli ice and an undo Matic willingness of experiment/1 \ v a a Tell the West by Jerzy gliksman.�,357 up. Gresham press new York . A f to of this Book about soviet Hussla lived in Al soviet labor Camp " led ugh Tiehm and promised the Ither inmates before tie left that he Tell the West something of that went on Here. He does so in Stark a terms which impel attention and. Well Shock Many readers. is the brother of Victor alter a to Lisle labor Leader executed by the his Warsaw Days he was if lawyer b a profession a Liberal Yoli tical belief. Arrested by the a kid ij9w/th%jrtvd in March 1940, he re gained in Captivity until August of the a mowing . Though the Book is t record of jbis.1 17 -. Inthis in prison or Gliksman Lias Itten it in terms of what millions be Ide himself have undergone in concen ration Camps. He depicts Camp life with Cool detachment from the Iger food fettered clothes and heavy. Lens of work disease and fear of Thedith and corruption in which. He Pris its had to live. One of the most pig it and warning notes in the Book is k by the deliberate analysis of the Inch logical effect which the Camp life ofis. Upon its inmates. For it shows the a in which Hunan spirit can be broken 1 until what was once a thinking intellectual human being can be reduced into Isth Uig More than a. Grubbing snivel no animal. 1 Vique Nch r the Moon. By waiter psf Mackey. -377, up Viking new York. Muhe grip which a wild countryman have upon its inhabitants so Strong that it destroys them in their love oi.4t-is"" related in. This Ste go tale of a West ire land District and its people., the Story 5ta�tswjth the marriage an orphan girl to Martin o Riordan farm Ner in the kill Duff Parish of Connera. Martha thinks she loves Martin use they share a love of boo stand Hen she finds out her mistake Conne Tiara already Bas such a hold upon her that she decides to stay of is she lavishes her ice. Upon their of Stephen,1 and the Story transfers to. As he grows up and Falls in love to with Kathleen Stephen and Kath Leen see the poverty and insidious in -. Sanitation of bog Ridden Connemara Tot which Martha was Blind and they want. Sto escape the Fate of its unhealthy often tubercular natives. But their love for it causes them to hesitate in seeking for tune elsewhere and by the time Stephen decides to leave it is too late. Forthe locusts have no King. By inv Dawn Powell 586 up. Scribner new York .$3. -. Powell uses the theme of the in Iti factory. Infatuation of a Youngjr Greenwich Village writer for a club. Of crawling Young woman to Lay Bare Ai few Home truths about some of modern Day society. Demanding Dodo wants to get All the bigwigs in All the Lugli pats. In new York. She Hooks Oliver writer of serious purpose who thinks Harco Urt & Brace new York. $2.50. This worthwhile1 novel is action packed with thrills and a expected twists. A. Bland English major the epitome to gentleness and kindness marries a Young rather foolish girl. Everything seems perfectly Normal about the major until one Day his wife discover indications that he is a spy for a foreign. Power. " a " Tobias Brandywine. By Dan Wick. Enden. 366 up. William Morrow & co. New York. $3. This is a pleasant relaxing fantasy of the kind which Many May dream about but few see realised. It tells How benevolent inconspicuous character or. Brandywine comes to a troubled Community. With an acumen Only equalled. By the goodness of his heart he sets to rights a lot of snarled up lives and .4 then fades gracefully out of the picture. / i 7 mostly murder she walks alone. By Helen my cloy. 280 pp., Bah Dom House new York /$2.50. is one of Helen Eccl pcs Best written mysteries a neat clean Cut plot with. No Loose ends lying Nina Keyes is Given an envelope to carry. From a latin american port to Washington by Way of. New York. She. Believes it. Contains blueprints until the envelope disappears during the ship trip and two persons Are murdered then it is Revea Jed that the envelope contained $100,000. In . Currency. The Job of tracking Down the killers and recovering the Money. Takes the Reader 0h an exciting danger Trail "chase,-,1" j. " to V it in f dreadful sum wet. By " 181 up. Simon schuster $2.o. A. The grim tale of a-16-year, boy and the psychological. Hyork Ings of his mind in the process of his decision to murder the Nian who beat up his father. Unpleasantly -realistic1 details enter the Story but it is built up can s Vir icing stu3y of a adolescent mind of i the verge of a crack up 1 = 1 to Detroit murders. Edited by-an1n1 c. Hamer. 218 up. Due Sloan &. Pearce new York. $3.a a selection of fear life Nirde r tragedies contributed by a variety of writers including Elizabeth Goulston and Patricia Bronte. The Best one is by Charles , who reports the Case of or. Loomis 1927 accused of murdering his wife by hitting her in the Mouth with a two by four / _ lady without mercy by roman Mcdougal. 246 up. Simon & schuster new York $2.when a lady has been told she will die of an incurable disease within six months and she persists in lasting on what can her impatient relatives do Bat try to help her on her Way out with a Little dose of Poison that s exactly what happens Birds of ill Omen. By Kathleen Moore Knight. 189 up. Crime club Doubleday new York$2. A enjoyable mystery set in mexican surroundings about a husband who won t Stop at anything Toby his wife the Hacienda san Cosme she so covets. How indigenous can you get an dec innocent creeps carefully through a semantic Maze the other Day i run into a personnel i of my acquaintance a . personnel that is and he swearing an attitude that can Only be described As depressed not to say morose. Vets Iobst i say in the vernacular waiting for a laugh but he shakes his head it s got me Down he quoth. Life i enquire. Nay he ejaculates. Semantics words. Have you noticed what has happened since the army drafted the English language have i not i reply with an appropriate gesture., Fot weeks says my personnel Friend i have been upset by the word indigenous whence came it do you know. \ 7ii plead ignorant / Well i do. There is a Man with shiny stuff on his shoulders who sits at a he is a specialist. A technician. His Job is to invent can picture him beating his for weeks on end trying to find a round about Way of saying German or native and not getting anywhere unt Irhe feels his career is at stake. He seeks Solace in a crossword Puzzle and there is the answer to his prayers in ten letters indigenous. What a charmed ,life.". ,. Of How obvious i enunciate. Can a you obtain me a Pencil so that i can make a full this ? you phrase that wrong he re Buttles. You meant to say you will secure me a Pencil so that i May in statute a report through proper Chan " nels1."my very hint but the conditional sense.?" x nothing is conditional in the army glowers my Cretin. You will secure or proceed or obtain. What Are you a mouse one Quarter size rodent or a male when this r r interrogate. Receipt of which is to say the , teletype communications from Public information officers in the european Heater of command since they were ordered to be explicit he flatly denies this. Then get a Load of these i prof Fer whipping out my trusty Brief Case. R he flinches. Here is one i taunt dispatched by Uncle sugar Able Fox easy.". A. Relative asks my straight Man. On my sister s Side i quip. The army is a Heller for accuracy. There must be to question of accuracy. Get it right. Over "., " " Roger he says Quick on the pack up. I is. Check. 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