European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Kill of. Hsii slur i Brier �1 Coines Forth with economist throws the naked and the dead. By Norman Mailer. 721 up. Rinehart new York. $4. A to a s a first novel the naked and the dead has some exceptional Quali ties and is above average even in the weaker spots. Norman Mailer though Only 25, has succeeded in grasp ing with astonishing depth and under standing the feelings emotions and motivations of the individual gis he depicts during the second world War. To show the effects of War he has neither tried to typify his characters nor Touse a single outstanding individual. In. Stead he has chosen a number of sol Diers each representative in his own Way of certain Cross sections of human fity. With naked honesty he has stripped gis of their romantic valor and pseudo heroics to present them As human beings sometimes afraid some times crude occasionally brutal and often disillusioned. He brings into his dialogues the colourful robust vernacular of the i and furnishes a Brilliant analysis of the i s sexual life under War stress. In his horror of War . Of ten gives out in bitterness through the agony of his characters tortured mentally and physically under the splurge of bloody Battle. To stress the social disasters which War brings about he uses examples of minorities a jew and a mexican american among others in his argument that differences which Are adjustable in peace Are widened . Outside of Brilliant pictorial action his theme that War brings out the worst in. Human nature is not very Clear. The end of any War he feels cannot erase det Simental characteristics i if created in s its participants hut projects these into v the next --.-.-.,. In. The Spanish Story. By Herbert. Feis. 282 up. Knopf new York. �3.50. The economic juggling which the United states Nunder Toek throughout v world War ii in order to prevent Gen eral far Cisco Franco from in the conflict on Hitler s Side i is related in this Well documented a blk Herbert Feis advisor on inter National economic affairs in the state department from 1931 to 1944 and chairman of the iberian Peninsula operating committee. He tells elaborately the economic history of Spanish american dealings during the vital War years of. Our food shipments to Spain of the periods during which we then again withheld Oil and Gaso. Line in a. Strategic Battle of economic pressure. Factual and statistical his report contains details of . Ship ments embargoes and Semi embargoes to Spain and of Francois own handling of vital supplies to Hitler s. Germany until starving Spain bordered on Book poses a multitude of questions on economic problems place dolby Franco s Spain the United states attitude should be towards them 1ft answers some but Noi All of the questions it " raises. I under ing the whole Blok is the import that Spain. Novel on the new Ili Glit on Framco Spain staff athe whole expected v anecdote so which would " make it a dough fully i even without he vivid m contribution made by the character pcs depicted As such As. A Harcourt new All the peripheral characters Lin this Book Are persons who one by iodine helped Lead to the destruction a tit a Young. Girl who might otherwise have been a i Good girl. Accepting the premise that the Complete wickedness of so " Many people influences the personality of one who slips so easily the Book is food for thought. It presents again a kind of society which is the hotbed of frustration drinking amoral quarrelling Money grabbing however it is established chatelaine Chickering had not much of a Chance from the beginning because other unstable family life. It seems hardly possible that she never really net a least one Nice person or that if she had been made of different Stuffy shei would somehow not have Little of the dissolution n into which somethings Mario bail rave 312ppjsloanei new York$3. V pm i following up his Best seller Here private Hargrove a satire on his army life mr., Hargrove now comes up with at Book of sniggers at the commercial radio profession. This new Book is not As funner As the first but ivs still Amus ing he takes As his Iheme two sedate Young men w to have decided to Niove Witti their families to the country Tomye peaceful lives. The wives get mixed up in a on baby care become famous overnight and chiefly by their absence. Turn their households Tipsy Teryy. It goes from bad to worse ase a bands Are delegated Toher Forni the various Domestic tasks until finally something gives a gals real ize Money in t everything,.pull but of business Peony by Earls Bucki-312 pp.5 John in this new Story pub China and its i people miss Buck has Teken a Beauty Ful Young chinese , Asher Central character. The Story mainly i designed to demonstrate v the in Reju chinese opus Attoh Century go con Sterns Penny s Loye for -davidj7spn 6f a wealthy jewish Ine Charit. Peony knew her bondage Imade marriage to David impossible and she fulfilled her love Byr seeking to serve him in Rall the ways she could. Tha real theme of the Story w lies in her influence him her can tribute bus in Wisdom , As a a Wornan Andrais a Chines reconcile his own jewish traditions with those ref " an c a " a during All Iii dictatorship ,.�.-. T.--.-.-,. -.tin1pblitical Maneu vers thousands Ito ail a i yet a time for laughter byjesicav0ithe? a the boy America during the. 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