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...Versailles trips among the ruins (The Road Back, Three Comrades). The quality of the new book and of its time is simply -almost too simply-defined by its central situation: the hero works for a tombstone firm, and the girl he loves is a schizophrenic at the local insane asylum...
Germany, in 1923, is in the grip of dizzy inflation, so Ludwig plays the organ for church services at the asylum for a good Sunday dinner and yearns for enough billions of marks to buy a new suit. Because his mother was constantly ill, the girls at a local brothel had seen to it that he did his schoolwork. At 18, when he was about to be shipped off to the trenches, he presented himself as a customer, and the sentimental, motherly prostitutes packed him off to the front a virgin. He is welcome now, but he seldom...
...released and delivers an impassioned blood-and-iron speech at a reunion of his ex-comrades-inarms. As he raises his arms to his Prussian god and furiously demands, "Give me back my career!". Von Puckhammer goes completely, if implausibly, mad-"manic-depressive insanity,'' according to the asylum doctor, being "the occupational malady of military...
...improbable that Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov ever heard this cynical rhyme from the period when Australia was an English convict colony. But it might well have applied to the two Soviet citizens in 1954 when they left the service of the Russian secret police and were granted asylum in Australia. The story of the Petrovs-as they tell it themselves-is fascinating and informative on two counts. It gives a salutary refresher course in the feeding and breeding habits of the pestiferous swarm of Soviet agents at work outside Russia. And it gives a self-portrait of the "new" Soviet...
...Hungarian team, which gained asylum after the end of the 1956 Olympics, swam last night as part of a nation-wide fund raising tour. The water polo team, which defeated Russia in a highly controversial game in the 1956 Olympics, split into two squads and staged first a mock game, then a "winter rugby match," involving heads and feet instead of hands. match," involving heads and feet instead of hands...