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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1957 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Herald and News Book Reviews Literary Highlights RUSSIA SINCE 1917. By Fred erick L. Schuman. Knopf. For centuries the western mind has been baffled and dismayed by the mysteries of the Russian soul. Is Russia at last beginning the change from a land of suspicion, fear and hopeless regimentation to a nation whose people are pre pared to cope with a modern social structure? Schuman, an able historian and expert on the mysteries of the Russian personality, seems to think the revolution is in process. He presents a broad canvas of Rus sian history from the time the Mongol invasions imprinted their indelible stamp on that nation's curiously ambivalent personality. His finding is that despite 40 years of repression under btalin, there is hope for the Russians, because Stalin had to educate the Russians in order to industrialize the country. "Stalin's totalitarian police state brought into being a community that can no longer be governed by the police methods of total itarianism," Schuman writes. "In sundry ways, not yet altogether clear in 1957, the 'dead letters' of the (Stalin) constitution of 1936 were in painful process of having some breath of life infused into their empty symbols. . . . The Stalinist state, having in some measure expiated for the crimes committed in its name by educat ing Russia, was in process, four decades after 1017, of ceasing to be a Stalinist state." Schuman's book, a summation of the events and causes behind these significant changes, is a valuable contribution to the mass of literature on the mysteries of Muscovy. LONG WARM WEATHER CYCLE AHEAD. By Hideo Nishio ka. International Economic He- search Bureau. If you're fascinated by the weather and who isn't? one o! the most thorough projects in the field is described in this book, sub titled "History of Cold and Warmth," by this scientist at To kyo s Keio University. Nishioka believes the world is getting warmer, and that profound changes in the way people live are in the offing years away, but com ing. He thinks he has discovered 700 year cycles of cold and warmth: it was cold, he says, in the 38th century B.C., the 31st. the 24th, and so down to the 18th century A.D. And it was warm in the 35th and 34th centuries, B.C.: the 28th and 27th; and so on in groups of seven centuries to the 15th and I6th A.D. The next warm peak, he says, will be in the 22nd and 23rd centuries. He buttresses his conclusions with tree rings, the north and south movement of sea lions, horse chest nut trees and mounds of sea shells, and the finding of ancient snow goggles in climes now more tropi cal. In North America, he notes that Montreal now has the weather New York was having in 1850: that the northern limits of tufted titmice and opposums have moved from southern Iowa to northern Minne sota: that water levels in the Great Lakes nre rising. He naturally writes mostly of what he has found in Japan, and the profusion of Japanese names makes for hard reading a good part of the time. But it you mas ter this, you ore sure to find his studies highly interesting. THE I'NIJI'IET UKKMANS. By Charles V. Thayer. Harper. In IMS, Hans ami Sophie Scholl. young brother and sister, passed out anti-Hitler leaflets in Munich and were beheaded for it. This is about as far toward revo lution as the Germans got, says Thayer, who has known them al most a quarter century thanks in part to U.S. consular and embas sy assignments. He then explores other aspects of the German character, the pressures brought by friend and foe to mold it, and tlie tradition behind it on occasion clashing with modern forces. Keeping al ways in mind this rare couple ready to die for liberty, he notes more conservative or reactionary manifestations: The refusal to admit the Jews were slaughtered, the persistence of Nazi convictions, the willing ness to flirt with Russia, the re turn of the Krupps, the rebirth of the army. Thayer thinks American pulling and hauling confused the Ger mans, and cites Eisenhower's re fusal to meet their generals when hostilities ceased contrasted with his gracious greeting to them when we -wanted a new German army. He also claims the care fully drafted "unconditional sur render" terms were lost by Bedell Smith, who hated them, so that only substitute documents were available for signature at Rheims. His not novel conclusions are that Adenauer is at the moment the key to the situation, and that except for the burden of civil serv ice, Bonn stands a better chance than Weimar ever did. THo's Life And Times Seen With Objectivity In Biography THE HERETIC: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOSIP BROZ TITOr By Fitzroy Maclean. Harp cr. $5.95. World War II produced few lead ers about whom Americans voci ferously hold such violent and such contradictory opinions as Tito. Yet the war was well along before we heard of him at all and even then we weren't sure of his name Broz? Tito? Did he fight in Spain? Was he a detested Communist? Or one of the good Communists we found it hard to distinguish from democrats? Mihajlovic and Cetnik we spelled Milhailovich and Chetnik those were almost the first strange-sounding words to reach us from beleaguered Yugoslavia. The government had tried to par ley with Hitler, the rash people could not stomach the deal, and Belgrade had been flattened mer cilessly by bombers. Then in the mountain retreats sprang up re sistance bands. Even Churchill and Roosevelt knew only of Mihajlovic for he got the publicity, and that is one of the points made by this au thor, who has been acquainted with Tito since the British parachuted hun in for liaison with Tito s rag ged, ill-equipped and conquering Partisans. Americans first read a defense of him in Louis Adamic. Here is a full scale biography, ob jective but friendly: Tito probably wouldn I like rt in Belgrade nook stores but he would not mind if the West said no more against him than this. Early interested in social justice. he was captured in World War I by the Russians and saw some Bol shevik activities. Back in his na tive land in 1920. says Maclean, he became a Zagreb Communist, but a loyal, all-out Communist owing allegiance to Moscow first and i u goslavia second. There are stirring accounts of guerilla activities, of the deadly feud with Mihajlovic, of the cru cial bickering with both East and West: and there's a fantastic close up of Stalin being a jolly good fellow. The break with Stalin came when Tito publicly changed h i s mind and decided he owed alle giance first of all to Yugoslavia. For all his posturing, his gaudy uniforms, his bcmcdnled chest, the bust of Napoleon on his desk. Tito is a key figure in our world. We liked him because he was a Com munist, then disliked hum for it. Current Best Sellers FICTION BY LOVE POSSESSED, James Gould Cozzens. ON THE BEACH, Ncvil Shule. PEYTON PLACE, Grace Me-- talious. RALLY ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS! Max Shulman. THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG, Richard Mason. NONFICTION "BARUCH: My own story, Ber nard Baruch. THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS, Vance Packard. THE NEW CLASS, Milovan Djilas. WHERE DID YOU GO? OUT. WHAT DID YOU DO? NOTHING, Robert Paul Smith. THE DAY CHRIST DIED, Jim Bishop. THE COVER The cover picture for this week's Herald and News Magazine Section of Klam ath Basin Living was taken by staff photographer Don Kettler with a 4 x 5 Crown Graphic camera set at f 20 and 100th of a second with a K-2 yelllow fiCrer to bring out the cloud effects. He stands in the dead center of the ideological enigma of our time welcomed to the democratic camp one day, welcomed by the Com munist hierarchy the next, and more than once he has outfoxed us all. He is not the most important man alive, yet perhaps no man alive is more important for us to understand in our troubled mood than this baffling figure, now friend, now foe, now exasperating middle-of-the-roader; and Maclean explains him vividly. Author Of The Week SIR FITZROY MACLEAN author of "The Heretic: The Life and Times of Josip Broz-Tito," has had a ca reer with more thrills than come to most authors.-Born in 1911, educated at Eton and Cambridge, a member of Parliament, he was called by Churchill, who was then planning to parachute him into Yugoslavia for liaison with the guerilla forces of Tito, "a man of daring char acter." In the diplomatic service before the war and a wide traveler, he law combat with the Cameron Highlanders. I f I Ht'ssjc. y ML Fall Lists To Offer Variety Of Reading By W. G. ROGERS NEW YORK, Wl "Cornflake Crusade," "North American Head Hunting," The Call Girl, inc Education of a Poker Player," "Motels, Hotels, Restaurants and Bars," "Why We Behave Like Americans," "Does Man Survive nnnth " "ITv In T.ivp with n Neurotic" these titles give you an idea, Dut not reany an auequaic one of the unlimited range of read ing which the versatile and gener ous publishers are making avail able to you tnis tan. The length of the lists seems to indicate the choice is bigger than ever and so does the staggering . ...u:nu .1 numDer oi copies unuer wim-u ui- rnHu thic mnnth n pritip's desk begins to sag and threatens to collapse. Highlighting the lists are names iiiilU uiUinli niTAfvr Mnlnl ic f 1V 1 inr, so familiar first names may FRANCOISE SAGAN is another prominent writer who will have a new book out this season. It will be "Those Without Shadow." lers, MaeLeish, Lerner, Agee, Sit well (Rriith not nnp nf thp hrnth. ers) and many others. MANY AUTOBIOGRAPHIES More artists than usual arp writ. ing their autobiographies, or are uemg wnuen aooui, or are ap pearing in handsome picture hnnlrc- Pinaccit Ptilln. C h b u n Dali, Chagall, ' Rodin, ' Michelan gelo. Besides, snmrt liniicnntlv fina nt-t books are promised : Rome, Venice, Vienna, aouin America, the whole wide wnrWt in nnllntinnc nt nWn. records of Flemish art, American an. in parucuiar you will want to bear in mind "300 Years of American Painting," a Time mag azine project by Time editor Alex ander Eliot. Frank Lloyd Wright is doing "A Testament." RinprnnhiAc anil anl.l.;H..nL: o- I uuiuuiugi dllim of a long list of leaders in various fields, the living and the dead, are upcoming also between now uiiu u,risimas: James Whitcomb Rilev. Rvrnn Pannu 17 laine, Steinbeck, Roger Williams. oernara narucn the Margaret Coit biography following the auto biogranhv Wnit n;ena., n 1 Hilton, Branch Rickey, David Du binsky. CIVIL WAR POPULAR is tlie civil War your pet sub ject? There will be "This Was Andersonville," by John McElroy. DO VOU InSP Eloan ,1 ?! j.!!0010.?'"7 Thcn you must ... n.e .aneo liod," Howard fasts storv of hi ,.,:,u communism. Do you want to r ".'e record of the Atlantic? There is "Jubilee: loo years of the Atlantic," edited by editor Ed ward Weeks and Emily Flint. Are you interested in history? There wiu uv iias m world History. How do you stand on Colin Wil son? The author of the popular The outsider loliows it up with 'Religion and the Rebel." From the writers already men tioned there are coming these books: "Those Without Shadow," Francoise Sagan: "The Square Root of Wonderful," Carson Mc Cullers; "A B.," Archibald Mac- AUTHOR Archibald Mae Leish, will offer his new book "J. B." for publication this fall. Leish; "America as a Civiliza tion," Max Lerner; "A Death in the Family," James Agee: "Eng lish Eccentrics," Dame Edith Sit well. . ' There also will be the much touted "Not by Bread Alone," by Vladimir Dudintsev, the Commu nist who writes with hazardous frankness about his land. Other scheduled fiction is: "The Violated," Vance Bourjaily; "The Return .of Lady Brace," Nancy Wilson Ross; "Maggie-Now," Bet ty Smith; "Something About a Sol dier," Mark Harris. From Edwin O'Connor comes "Benjy: A Ferocious Fairy Tale." Ogden Nash will write about "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't." Civil War Book Disputes Theory HOW THE MERRIMAC WON. By R. W. Daly. Crowell. The judgment of history has been that the famous encounter between the Mcrrimac and Moni tor in Hampton Roads in 1862 was a drawn battle, with the long range effects strictly favoring the Union. Now, in this slender vol ume, Daly endeavors to reverse the judgment. He argues that the strategic victory belonged to the Merrimac and the Confederacy. Daly is associate professor of naval history at the U.S. Naval Academy. He did not set out with any preconceived notion but reached his conclusions along tlie path of his meticulous, arduous research. In the first place, Daly argues, the Merrimac's potential was vast ly overrated. Although its initial strike at the Union fleet spread terror along the Atlantic coast from Washington to New York, he demonstrates convincingly that the Merrimac was too ponderous and clumsy to venture into the open sea. and never was intended fur anything more than harbor de fense. His main thesis is that the Mer rimac destroyed Washington hopes for a short war. It upset George B. McClellan's original plan for a swift strike at Richmond, with transports landing his army just one day's march from the Confed erate capiUiL
