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...VIII's romance with Wallis Warfield Simpson, now privately chided the U.S. press for staying silent. Last Sept. 2, recognition in a mass U.S. publication was given for the first time to the fact that the question even existed. The Sunday supplement Parade (circ. 10 million) published a reader's letter asking about the truth of the Blauvelt genealogical item; Parade's answer was a flat refutation. London's huge Sunday papers, including the respectable Sunday Telegraph and Observer, promptly picked up the Parade question-and-answer as a way of getting the story into print...
...Graham Greene is genius and part sheer fudge, but which part is which and in what proportion? After following Greene through a dozen books from the London Embankment to the banks of the Congo (with scene-setting rainwater running down the back of his neck all the while), the reader sees at last that more than half of Greene's attraction lies in this uncertainty. The republication of this 1934 novel (Greene's fifth), never widely read in the U.S. or in Great Britain, is a fresh and welcome opportunity to test-taste the mixture...
...Drury fails to make the U.N. come alive in the same crackling way, and often mires his story in mawkish melodrama and details so fine that they manage to be tedious rather than interesting. Maybe the U.N. is that way, and Author Drury could not help himself. But the reader who managed to sit through Drury's long Senate sessions with rapt attention is more likely to doze when the U.N.'s machinery starts grinding...
...anger from without and fear from within. Creating a cross-rough of curiosity-backward in time to whatever dreadful event has brought the Black-woods to their present predicament, forward to some nameless but newly foreshadowed disaster in the future-the book manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner and a pyromaniac is a world more rich in sympathy, love and subtlety than the real world outside...
This exchange should provide any reflective reader with some food for thought...