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...Christ Stopped at Eboli (see BOOKS), Italian Author Carlo Levi tells movingly of an Italian village too tiny and remote (according to local tradition) even for the attention of the Messiah. In the messianic fervor of Italy's Communists today, however, no village is too remote. North & south where no road leads and no Christian Democrat cares to venture, the Communists are on hand to persuade, threaten or cajole with promises of worldly salvation. Last week, from Rome, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled a revealing glimpse of the way humbler party officials work their wonders in two little towns...
...Boston, 79-year-old Dickinson S. Miller, an ex-Harvard professor of philosophy, fought eviction from his one room apartment with new fervor. When his landlady snitched his key some months ago, he had made the window his doorway. But when "a sudden incursion of people" swept away his bed, the lights and most of the furniture while he was in the bath, Professor Miller went to law. He wanted his bed back...
...Roosevelt-Hull policy toward Vichyfrance has been attacked with more fervor than it has been defended. This book is the most thorough and respectable defense the U.S. policy has had. William L. Langer, Harvard's Coolidge Professor of History and wartime chief of the OSS Research and Analysis Branch, concedes that U.S. Vichy policy may have been an unattractive long-shot gamble, but argues that it was "always substantially sound," judged by U.S. interests. And, he says, it paid...
...without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free," and striven with Byronic fervor to make the dream come true...
Perhaps the Odets drama has lost just a little of its fiery workers-of-the-world-unite spirit--at any rate the current Pasadena address of its anther hangs in the background to dispel any idealist fervor. But the Dramatic Club cast manages to wring from the script more of the tragic social significance than could be expected perhaps even of a professional group...