European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse In a forced evacuation wednesday. September 10, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 11 what 3 books would you choose to fake by Hugh a. Mulligan r1doefield, Conn. A War Clouds gathered swiftly Over the Placid French Riviera in hat Early autumn of when senegalese troops set up Road bloc along the corniche William Somerset maugham knew Hal the end of his inflexible Well ordered life at Villa Mau risque was at hand. On sept 1, Germany invaded Poland. The harbormaster at Villefranche ordered All foreign yachts to leave As air raid War Dens patrolled the Doe i blowing their whistles if a Light shone through a port Hole. One Day maugham saw an antiaircraft Battery pulled in the Rocki at Cape Ferial Anil soon after Soldier were bivouacked of the Golf course at Nice. There were rumours All Winter Long and stranger still by Spring thut the italians would occupy the Riviera. On june 4, the evacuation Al Dunkirk was . Maugham went to see John Taylor. Thu British Consul Al Nice and was told All 1, 3qg British residents on the Riviera were to be evacuated. Two Coal barges the Sallers Gate and the Ash Resl entered the Harbor at Cannes to receive the expatriate refugees. Maugham took one last look at his Art collection. Locked the door to the writing room packed the one suitcase he was Al Lowed to take on Board and chose three books from his Library. What were the three books Ted Morgan who gives this fascinating Vignette and Many others of a famous author at a crisis Lime in history in his splendid maugham a biography tells us maugham chose Plato s trial and death of William Thackeray s Henry Charlotte Bronco s Villette Ever since Reading this anecdote i have been wondering what books i would choose from the rickety bookcases Here at hardscrabble House a Dicket Isian name for what essentially a a winterized Lake Bungalow if the Lime Ever name for me to Board a Coal Barge in Norwalk Harbor and the St is Anc Tri pests Jav Ruthef sep european Edithw col. Rose it Auger us est in Clil it. Col to Comett Piaf dwt tlwtocm1 Mert i Octoba my cow Cluck com Mtnor ii hot t. Edit ii Tel non Tutor h w author Ltd uni lip mail Oili Lor . Army form Gnu Al. To Sun m Elf Loo ii Publ Lihtz in Elln a Armit Fercsi wow Kiwi Proem go it h def Cilot. Cent no 41 to Strind or Len it not Inen Mart in Olinjk vim h Law T . A tvo. 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Henry Esmond ii among the missing. He was Bor rowed one Day by a neighbor s daughter who came to pick weeds and never re turned the Garden shears either. And winding up maugham s list refugee life no doubt will have terrors enough in store for me without inviting any of the Bronte Sis ters along. My first Choice among books to Salvage from the sudden wreckage of life s Well ordered Ruline to begin a new life with to carry off to War or exile or wherever would be my old College edition of slip face scare the nne put out by Scribner s and edited by Thomas Marc Parrot of Prince ton University. It not Only contains All 23 file is and All the sonnets bul has excellent informative delightfully read Able notes a sides and dissertations on Shakespeare s London Shakespeare s the Ater acting companies of the Day. Etc. Next for pure Cut ipe m a Pence where there probably will be no other Means of escape i would tuck the Complete Sher lock Holmes into my single allotted suit Case. Life had gifted me with a poor Mem Ory where plots Are concerned so even though i be probably read All the stories a half dozen times or More i approach each As if far the first Lime. The great detective has seen me through Many a Long plane ride Boring weekend bout of insomnia and similar crisis and he will be a most Welcome fellow passenger on that Coal Barge to destiny. What belter Way to face a new adventure to turn the key and lock up the past than in excited contemplation of the problem of thar Bridge or the disappearance of lady Frances Carfax finally to let me know Hal things could be worse to help me find the courage to endure whatever is to come at the end of that Uncertain journey to remind me what Depths of repression and Heights of heroism Man is capable of i would reverently lift from the shelf the entire series or us much As my Carryall could carry of so a Hen Tsyn s the gulag polls from fiction i Don t remember bul the scenes of real life horror he describes can never be forgotten. Although i must have read in fully five Yean ago i remember still the incident at the District party conference when tribute to Stalin was called for and everyone stood up to Cap. They kept clapping until Palms were Burn ing and Emu aching because no one wanted to be seen by the a kid to tie the fint 10 Stop clapping on and on went the ridiculous ovation until after 11 tense Ort Roui menu Les the manager of the paper Mill factory dared to Sil Down. Everyone else topped too right then. I remember Solich Natsyn i words of delivery they had been saved. The Squir Rel had been smart enough to jump off his revolving and the dread Tequel. Thai same night the factory director was arrested and sentenced to 10 year in the gulag. Don t Ever be the first to Slop applauding his interrogator told him. No Book written in thai Century Tell u Al much about what Liberty really Means and warns to graphically what is in store for u4 if those coat Barge arrive for free Dom i final evacuation. I have left the Bible oat of my Trio because someone surely will smuggle a copy Board. With the area Good Book excepted. T would be interested in hearing what choices the read in would make if allowed but three Book when dark Clouds ominously gather. Letters to the editor poor conditions for Pace exam two months ago you ran a Letler to the editor concerning inc Pace exam administered on March 26 at bad Canstatt and a reply by the chief of civilian recruitment for usar Ioir. The letter was a straight Forward criticism of the conditions under which the examination was administered. The reply was irrelevant but shed a great Deal of Light on Why so Many americans Here and at Home Are so fed of with the unfeeling government bureaucrats ill whom we must Deal More and More. Rather than addressing the specific complaints of the writer the reply said to the effect Hal the availability of the Pace exam in Usa eur in a major accomplishment for which we should All be thank Ful no matter How poorly it May have been administered. Thin response clearly represents the Alti tude of Hose bureaucrats who Are More interested in the system Hal they arc part of than the people Hal the system is supposed to serve. I for one am grateful that we now have Itie Pace Over Liere but am nol appreciative of a chief of civilian recruitment who thinks we should be satisfied and Humble no matter How poor the conditions under which it is administered. The conditions will never improve if this attitude is typical of these in the civilian recruitment business. E Hope it is Mai. Paid s. Reuben Tif Llyn fold it Mutiny editors note Frank p. Capon director civilian Penantel my usar . Replies Trie it Cintli in Stuttgart were indeed inadequate and will not by used for future Pace tots currently planned for Nogent bar 1980. A Jim of poor lighting and now Dott artences the a cil Friej arc not conducive o proper exam administration and should not by been scheduled for the March toll to Pace sponsored by in mirth was the fruition of a two year Effort to provide ibis test to is. Citizens in Europe. Original stir till of Himm bar to be Ted vat approximately 500 applicants. Hovetter lie actual number Vrtol Well Oier 1.300. Effort to accommodate the urge number Al applicants and ease by Burden of travel retailed in rapid expansion of original testing Sites from two to nine. We anticipate a considerably better my Lutr or not Man testing and better to Tang Ralls. We appreciate your inter est and concern and ill Ali you for bring ing the Nutter of inadequate facilities to our Russell Baker new York
