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Judge Hand went further. The fact was, he thought, that the Communist conspiracy was a perfectly clear danger, even back in the summer of 1948 when the eleven were indicted. Said Judge Hand, with a horrified backward look at such contemporary incidents as the Berlin blockade: "We do not understand how one could ask for a more probable danger, unless we must wait till the actual eve of hostilities...
...other objections raised by the eleven to the trial-the way the jury was selected, the kind of testimony and evidence admitted. The eleven had had a proper trial; if anything, the long-suffering Judge Medina, heckled and insulted by the Reds' lawyers, had leaned over backward to be just. "If at times he did not conduct himself with the imperturbability of a Rhadamanthus [he] showed considerably greater self-control and forbearance than it is given to most judges to possess...
...BACKWARD BRIDE (180 pp.)-Aubrey Menen-Scribner...
South-Southeast. Half-Indian, half-Irish Author Menen's little parable is fair sport as far as it goes, but it is a comedown from his witty and pointed satirical novel about the British in India, The Prevalence of Witches (1948). The Backward Bride seems meant to be profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell...
...husband Richard Bransten is not unlike the Greenwich Village she described in My Sister Eileen-a place considerably more productive of mad fun and giggling fits than the real thing. The book is designed for the intending tourist, a figure Author McKenney seems to picture as a rather backward 14-year-old for whom things have to be put very, very simply, especially dull and difficult things like history...