European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                / our v " i i it m v f n in Tokyo by Andrew h. Malcolm new York times Ike Mansfield was presiding Over a recent staff meeting in Tokyo when one embassy bureaucrat began pontificating. Or. Ambassador he said it would take me several hours to adequately outline the full detailed ramifications of this  the ambassador from Montana puffed on his pipe once or twice and replied i Don t think you could do it if you had several  the remark spoken plainly without rancor demonstrated the new tone which the 74-year-old former Senate majority Leader has brought to Japan his diplomatic saddlebags. He has a very Low tolerance one embassy offi cer said for us How can i say it politely barnyard bunk in his first one Hundred Days in this new career mans Field has also had a number of adjustments to make. During recent informal conversations and a meeting wit american correspondents Mansfield said he has less personal Freedom As an ambassador than As a senator. His wife Maureen is extremely Busy managing the Large embassy household but they now have More time together. He feels leaving the Senate last january was a wis move. It was the Best decision i Ever made. I Don t miss it one  there Are Many problems that confront United states japanese relations and he said i m finding they Are mostly  the seeds of another problem potentially serious rest in the Fame and prestige which he carries among average japanese. The appointment of a Well known congressional elder with vast past Asia experience to the Tokyo Post was widely interpreted As an acknowledgement by presi Dent Carter of Japan s importance to the United states. In the japanese mass Media Mansfield is known As an Mono Taishi a big name  and the implication is that his Basic sympathies and understanding rest with Japan. Mansfield has sought at times since his arrival june 7to explain sympathetically the japanese Side to Ameri cans How vulnerable they feel Over resources for in stance. And in recent weeks he also used his personal relationship with president Carter to explain the serious Ness of an american rejection of Japan s nuclear reprocessing  unlike some previous . Ambassadors in private staff meetings and even some rather Blunt Public state up envoy Mike Mansfield seeking the lowest barnyard bunk quotient in embassy staff. Ments he leaves no question on which nation is upper most in his mind. What he often asks aides outlining a program Are the effects on United states interests on the american troop withdrawal from South Korea an Issue on which Many japanese officials have their doubts Mansfield has solidly defended president Carter. And on the question of Trade difficulties with Japan it was Mansfield s july 19 speech lecturing japanese on the realities of american politics and growing protectionism there that led the intensifying . Assault on Japan s whopping Trade surpluses. And he suggested an economic Early warning system to detect .-Japan Trade problems before they become major. The Asahi Shimun Japan s most influential newspaper even cautioned editorially that overestimating be genesis o Mansfield s sympathies will Lead to disillusion and disappointment. The ambassador s Basic interest in Asia Springs from a 1920-21 tour in China As a Marine. I be always Felt he says that while the pull on americans was toward Europe the push has always been Westward across the continent and the Pacific. The future of the . Lies in the Pacific and on the rim of  he said he would never have considered any other pos than Japan. We enjoyed our 10 weeks of retirement and Freedom he said but after enough persuasion we came Back to  As ambassador Mansfield presides Over one of the largest . Embassies in the world 700 employees in a modern 112-Story Structure next door to a palatial Resi. Dence. As usual there the embassy is divided into two Camps one that feels the insular japanese require Spe Cial understanding by . Policies and another growing Wing less inclined to hide impatience. When things were fat and times were Good said one hardliner we could put up with Japan s Little White lies about their economic plans and responsibilities and the like. But not now. And i think the new ambassador is going to shake some japanese up to the potential for real trouble with the United  Mansfield always with pipe in hand has stuck fairly close to the embassy during his first three months. He does less entertaining than previous envoys and arrives at his ninth floor desk sharply at 7 30 . He has been sizing up embassy personnel insiders report and appears drawn to those with the lowest barnyard bunk  i m just feeling my Way around and getting my docs wet he says. But he appears Well briefed and has a wealth of facts and figures in mind for any conversation except those Idle ones about the weather which seem to cause his eyes to Glaze. He says he now has less control Over his own time. I feel a compulsion to meet with so Many people he says it s a compulsion i did t feel in politics except in Campaign  but he and his wife have More time together. She does t have to Cook anymore the ambassador said but she s Turing into a certified Public accountant keep ing More household accounts than you can shake a stick  be never been busier in my life mrs. Mansfield tells , the ambassador was asked later does she like the life of an ambassador s wife he puffed twice on his pipe. I think so he said. And do you like it ? two More puffs. " i think so. " by Gregory Jensen United press International for nearly 60 years the lat prof. . Tolkien Laboured on great work called the Silmar illion and at last it has been  mighty Book it turns out to be. And a Peculiar  is not in it nor is Gandalf. The hobbits Are not seen and Bilbo Baggins is missing from the immense cast of charac ters crammed in its 365 pages. Bilbo Baggins and Frodo and the rest Are the nonhuman inhabitants of Middle Earth heroes and villains Tolkien created created for his epic lord of the rings trilogy their popularity became phenomenal and still is. An american motion picture company is currently making two full length cartoon movies based on the lord of the rings. But All the while the Tolkien cult was swelling there were muttered rumours of the great Silmar illion brooding in the deep darks of Tolkien s mind. Throughout my father s Long life he never abandoned it nor ceased even in his last years to work on it says Christopher Tolkien the writer s son. Christopher has spent the four years since his father s death forging the constantly revised Sil Mari lion notes into publishable shape. The result is nothing if not audacious. In his other books Tolkien invented his own world. Here he invents an entire universe. The Sil Marietton is an alternative to Chebook of genesis relating the creation of the universe. It holds a pantheon of gods As Complex As any the greeks knew. It is a mass of myths. The Silmar illion Christopher Tolkien says in the foreward is an account of the elder Days or the first age of the world. In the lord of the rings were narrated the great events at the end of the third age but the tales of the Silmar illion Are leg ends deriving from a much deeper past when Forgoth the first dark lord dwelt in the Middle Earth and the High elves made War upon him for the recovery of the  that passage is a Good imitation of his father s style. Tolkien s own biblical Ca Dences Are in every paragraph of the Book As when he relates the fashioning of the living jewels known As the Silm arils then he began a Long and secret labor and he summoned All his lore and his Power and his Subtle skill and at the end of All he made the  this does t happen until Page 67, and Many Are the Long Ages of Tolkien s creation which come before. First is an in dependent Section creating the universe from the music of the world and another listing the pantheon of the gods. After the Silmar illion proper another Section de scribes the second age of the world and literary cult author Tolkien an incantation of invented names. A final one covers the same ground As lord of the rings but in Tolkien s condensed mythic . Tolkien was a top flight professional philologist. His Delight was in words not so much what they mean As How they sound. He invented whole languages and the scripts to write them Down. And this Book is an incantation of invented names. They flood every Page mane and Savanna aule and Seanor the Forest of Rethil and the realm of Narg Thrond. There Are so Many names a condensed Index takes 42 pages to list them. As in everything he produced Tolkien s imagination is boundless and its working out meticulous. He includes family Trees of races of elves and individual elvish families. There is a guide to pronunciation of names in the elvish languages and maps of Belveri and in Middle Earth. The most scholarly joke of All is an 11-Page appendix on ele ments in Quenta and sin Darian names compiled for those who take an interest in the elder in  perhaps not Many do. But Tolkien is one of the most popular literary Cults of this Century and the densely impenetrable work called the Silmar illion makes his legend Complete. Saturday september 24, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13