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THE OBSERVER REVIEW, 3 NOVEMBER 1968 Books 29 MAX BELOFF ON SAMPSON'S EUROPE MAURICE RICHARDSON ON EVACUEES This Page MURDER IN A DETROIT MOTEL Page 28 GEOFFREY GORER THE SEXUAL WILDERNESS This Page by P. Snow, John Updike, Thomas Hinde A Fall from Aloft BRIAN BURLAND work ot art lut m.fic.iti"; great and unuu.iii.itL'it"AS-TlKivl Bt ss "I-ine hrM novel cirru-s l.it.il from N.intiinc tn en jutts in i 'She lrr; "Kvo i'nr r.k-ntlc ninri.non ol his miimt a wJl-rnij srorv Fn.in Rurl.ir.d is ot The vtr I 'a v. ritv r. hvi U.is v. rm, so nhout dukiren childhood th.it comparisons pointlcs." JANICE-, LI OTT, it.

i Page 30 This Page Deflowering the campus Joan Fleming HELL'S BELLE A young 'Rolls-Royce' girl wants someone to kill heV stepmother. 'One of the best Miss Fleming has done sometimes funny always gripping the sun Choice 18s Elizabeth Ferrars THE SWAYING PILLARS "Well up to Miss Ferrar's customary high standard, ending with a gory action sequence played out against the background of a coup d'Staf Sunday times Choice 18s Anatomy of Europe by GEOFFREY GORER by MAX BELOFF THE SEXUAL WILDERNESS by Vance Packard (Longmans 36s) THli NEW EUROPEANS by Anthony Sampson (Hodder and Sloughton 50 I of the This is slightly disarming but Mr Packard takes his JOHN MOAT lA stiinsc and stylistically striking first nnvcl Djitv Talcgritph. 'It hasapowcr mat is unexpected in even a very pood firM novel j-i'ijfu-iii! 7ffrjC'c beautiful pieeeof full ot tenderness and strong direct n.irr.utvc Xorrhern Line tlrw ings hv the Author. Tha collected works ol a major English poet RUTH PITTER Poems 1926-1966 hich she wishes to All her poetry preserve, joj. FOR MANY people the idea of a Unucd Europe has been one ol the few good things to come out of the w.ir Despite all obstacles there seemed for some time to be serious grounds for hope that the secular jealousies of the western European nauons could be set aside, and the fiontiers that dmdc them come to be of no greater economic or political importance than those between the American or Australian Stales.

The successful operation of the Common Market seemed to have convened even the sceptical British. Today all this has changed onco more The Common as Mr Sampson puts it. 'castrated of GENERAL MATTHEW B. RIDGYVAVS The War in Korea ''In a unique posinon to comment on events which still shape East-West relations Ridgway's stylish and passionately written study no one in the nuclear age can ignore the necessity for obectics outlined in this fehci- NGAI0 MARSH CLUTCH OF CONSTABLES An intriguing murder story featuring super-intendant AUeyn. 'It's got all that zest of hers which keeps you reading' obsebveb Choice 21s John Wainwright THE DARKENING GLASS 'One of the best police-routine books I have ever read a little literary masterpiece' the sun 'Enthralling picture of police methods' evening STANDARD.

18s Collins Novel of Suspense E. E. Vielle NO SUBWAY Will the Channel tunnel work? Or is there a catastrophic flaw in the whole theoretical concept of it? If so, is disaster inevitable and when? A startling theory. A deliberate echo of Nevil Shute's No Highway' the times 18s results seriously, even after warning the careful reader that he should not One of the questions does give a little insight into the questioner. He has a check-list of 12 types of sexual behaviour from light embrace and casual kissing to coitus the single variant from customary behaviour he thinks worth asking about is whipping or spanking before petting or other intimacy.

Only a very few, naughty England apart, mark this item. Besides undergraduate unchastity, Mr Packard Deeply Deplores the modern confusions about sex identity (as shown by clothes) and parental roles, and the fragility of modern marriage. The final 200 pages of this excessively wordy book are taken up with exploring these Distressing Aspects of Modern Life, with concepts which will hardly come as any surprise to the readers of women's magazines. When discussing the loss of sexual identity, shown by women in slacks and men with long hair, he writes: The world will be more ugly end less charrning if each of the two sexes cannot enjoy the special attractiveness of the other. If both sexes persist in trying to look alike and act alike, there would be a loss of enchantment in both camps, a loss of gallantry, for example, among men and a loss of appreciativeness among women.

in his final chapters Mr Packard makes Constructive Suggestions about a new moral code which will preserve the chastity of the unmarried and the stability of marriages. These include one-sex schools during late adolescence, the forbidding' of intercourse until the third year in college, a month's delay between announcing the intention to marry and the performance of the ceremony, a trial period of marriage for the first two years, during which divorce will be tous memoir david rees, Srates-mjn "A clear and readable account of the war ith valuable first-hand descriptions of lcs conduct in Washington, Tokvo and the field correlli Sunday Telegraph. Special foreword pays tribute to the "Glorious 50J WITH every book he publishes, Vance Packard comes more and more to resemble an American version of the late Colonel Blimp, viewing with alarm, pointing out Their sinister and hidden conspiratorial machinations, deploring the loss of the sound moral and commercial standards which he believes prevailed a couple of generations ago. True, he dresses up his appeals to what every decent feller would think with a quite uncritical paste-and-scissors employment of snippets from various so-called 'authorities' who back up his case, from newspapers, magazines, and' any other material he can lay his industrious hands on. But underneath this top-dressing of pseudo-social science and broad-mindedness the reactionary values and the nostalgia for the good old days grow the ranker from these lertilisers.

In the present book Mr Packard Views With Alarm the increase in pre-marital sex among American students, particularly the women students. If his figures are to be believed, about two girl students in five lose their virginity before marriage, one of these two merely anticipating marriage by a few weeks or months, but the other sleeping with more than one man. This, Mr Packard states at length, ii To Be Deplored. Mr Packard's figures are chiefly derived from questionnaires which he had circulated in 21 American universities. He got in touch with a student leader and asked him or her to distribute 100 questionnaires to what he or she thought a representative group.

From the statistical point of view this sample does not represent anything, but the sheer numbers give a little plausibility to the figures. This plausibility completely disappears when he tries to generalise about students in England, Norway, Canada (300 forms from a single unidentified university in each country) or Germany (500 forms from one unidentified university). In this lucky dip the English come out much the naughtiest. The actual questions tend to be extremely ambiguous; Mr Packard apparently did not think fit to consult any specialist in opinion research. In a moment of frankness he refers in his introduction to my somewhat unsophisticated research approach (and the casual wording from a scientific standpoint of a few success and failure.

The normal apparatus of facts and figures is not neglected his publishers deserve praise for the ingenuity and clarity of the maps and diagrams as well as for the feat of helping Mr to bring out a book in November which lakes account of the events of this year's crowded summer of our discontent. Mr Sampson's book makes more exciting reading than his celebrated 'Anatomy of not merely because the canvas is wider but because the subjects he tackles are more difficult and more significant there is a good deal of excellent congealed gossip in his pen-portraits of the Eurocrats and of some of the leaders of the main economic enterprises whose success part of the story of Europe's massive post-war recovery and growth no mirage here but it is not all gossip by any means. We are not only asked to study the aims and efforts of the powerful and the great but to see how far the ordinary lives of ordinary people whether as producers or consumers reflect the movements of goods, capital and labour which have characterised the last two decades of European history. What does Mr Sampson credit as an observer of the scene is his power to penetrate behind superficially similar urban and slitl more suburban landscapes to the underlying and persistent differences that remain, and to ask meaningful and relevant questions. WHAT have been the obstacles to a greater mingling of the European peoples still? Why does the rush to tie towns and the depopulation of the countryside proceed so fast while industrial (and mining) groups seem so rooted? Why do businessmen who profess European ideals and fear being swamped by America find it so much easier to link up with American than with other European firms? Is there more than lip-service being paid to the idea of a technological community when the brain-drain shows so many of the men needed to man it voting for America with their feet'' Is it reasonable to talk of the obsolescence of the national State when its apparatus and the self-confidence and expertise of Anthony Sampson meaningful questions about Europe.

its bureaucracy is clearly on the increase? Mr Sampson is good at penetrating into the realities of the distinctions that remain between Britain and its neighbours in the Six the slower rate of growth, the lagging-behind of welfare services, the greater confidence in democratic institutions and the less strained temper of ordinary life. He knows what institutions are to blame for our defects for instance, a trade-union movement led by troglodytes but he is less clear on the intellectual distinctions that divide British Socialists (and indeed Liberals) from their Continental counterparts. Ideas interest Mr Sampson less than facts and he is less good at handling them, and he is no historian readers would be advised not to follow him on either Monnet's or de Gaulle's role in the Anglo-French union project of 1940. More important, he is a victim of the besetting sin of the reforming journalist sentimentality. He Is right to deal with the question as to whether the Europe of the Europeans with its language of growth does not too easily obfuscate other questions in people's minds the quality of life, for instance, to which regional and other protest movements may, however clumsily, direct attention.

But greater awareness of the past of such movements would make him less prone to take them at their face value, and able to see more clearly the deep-seated fascist streak particularly in the Continental student movement and its British imitators. One reason their elders lack sympathy for them is that they remember or know about those other movements that began as protests against the against formal democracy and against the philosophical and scientific legacy of the enlightenment, and that led to the holocaust. Mr Sampson is, however, to be judged as a journalist, and as a piece of journalism, his new book is alpha query plus. Two more volumes in The New Currency Series Investing in flntipe Jewellery RICHARD FALKIMER Investing in Pottery and Porcelain Ht GO MORLEY -FLETCHER "Whether you are interested in collecting antique pieces purely for the pleasure of or as an investment, you could not find better buys." Investor Guide Magnificently produced text and pictures arc meticulously planned and presented" Queen. Each 1 1 8 144 pages including 16 pages of glorious colour illustrations and about 250 in "black and white, jo.

Us political ideals, is stuck at the stage of an uneasy cusloms union, and may not survive even as that the men who a few years ago talked as Europeans now talk again as Germans, Frenchmen or Even the fundamental instinct of self-preservation seems to have been weakened the reminder of Russian power and ruthlessDess in the brutal suppression of a dawning liberty in Prague has done nothing to consolidate the defences of the West. The European countries either huddle for shelter under an Americar! umbrella or follow de Gaulle in his foredoomed forays into a so-called independent foreign policy. Even the Franco-German treaty, which some people welcomed as marking an end to the bitter feud of Gaul and Teuton, has proved to be a sinister instrument for perpetuating Britain's exclusion from Europe and with it the only hope of a genuine move forward on democratic lines. Because of the enormous blanket of propaganda on behalf of the Common Market, the endless symposia, colloquia, conferences and publications to which it has given rise, and the peculiarly technical and abstract nature of so much of this material, the truth about both the rise and fall of the European idea has been slow to penctMte wide- public, particularly in this country. Mr Anthony Sampson has now devoted his considerable talents to turning the story into a human one, and asking who the people are who have created the movement and what in human terms is the record of THE SHELL BOOK OF COUNTRY CRAFTS 372 pages, 200 plates in colour and black and white, many line drawings THE NEWEST SHELL BARGAIN relatively easy if the union is childless, and men rar more aimcutt Divorce.

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hungry women as savage as Mother Eve. and said Joseph Conrad, "is by the power of the fast as the Pole Star. 'Strange and fantastic yet Conrad's THE EVACUEES edited by B. S. Johnson (Gollancz 42s) ONE TENDS to forget how vast an operation it was, the evacuation of four milbon children to billets during the Second World War.

The upheaval must have had all kinds of effects. Perhaps some of the changes in British social life since 1945 leveLling, disappearance of the rigid distinction between middle and lower middle class, increasing bourgeoisification of the proletariat could be traced back to it. wnnen woru 10 mase you near, 10 inuxn uu ioci, ana ii.cn anu wuin 3.1 ciii. iu sec, vuu iccj, yui lieu, before all to make you seel" And see you do, as you read you live their every adventure when you read these his entlulmgstonesof exotic lands and peopio hidden -fantastic! trne-to-Iife stories. BEST setuns in boohs 1 If you like great books, and great adventure Accept Gordon Gridley, from Edmonton, aged seven, to a Sussex farm, was very impressed by a lesson from a bull in the notorious facts of life despite a horrible human schoolmaster, who called the cane 'my barley-sugar stick he enjoyed himself a good deal of the time.

Only a few of this lot left the country; Allen Synge achieved a touching rapport with a brittle, fragile aunt in New York. He gives me the notion that evacuation to America, comfort apart, may have had special psychological compensations. Jonathan Miller's experiences were peripatetic and not all uncomfortable. He is eloquent about the predicament of the less fortunate evacuee and the lost wolfishness of the city waif in the country. Alan Sillitoe had a short stay with an easygoing couple in Worksop.

It was uneventful, but he conveys very well the desultoriness of evacuee life. Nobody was sensationally unhappy but nobody really enjoyed being evacuated. The prevailing impression is of a premature encounter with the void. Claire Meltzer, who was happily placed, aged 12, in a country vicarage and admits she had very good war, sums it up: 'On the whole I regret being a child in 1939. We missed 1 imagine most of the contributors would subscribe to this.

The very word evacuation, with its excretory association, implies an unwanted state. BOOKS PRINTS this book: Welsh miners, Somersetshire villagers, publicans, county ladies, retired colonels. Nobody seems to have struck a real monster. The unluckiest was Christopher Leach. He was evacuated from his SE London suburb to a west-country orphanage run by an austere lady, almost a religious maniac.

When he wasn't at school she kept him hard at it either praying or doing part-time jobs. He reacted by trying to seduce a girl orphan who was terrified of him. Tho billeting officer was sent for and he was moved to a cheerful couple who ran a transport cafe. Several contributors remember the hostility they met with from local children. Crispin Tickell, the only child host, gives a tantalising account of teasing haughty adolescent schoolgirls evacuated to his grandmother's house in the Cotswolds.

R. Emerson's most vivid recollection is of the joys of getting back to the East End from Yorkshire margarine instead of fresh butter, pick-a-back rides from Chinese tailors, the kindly whores who frequented his father's pub. IN A BEAUTIFUL MUSTRATEt) EDITION AS YQUR fIRST VOLUME OF THE CONRAD COLLECTION 1 COUPLES' If yon like good books, eiijoyadratarev I0vo reading LORD JIM and not just oneeytrat again and 'I if you appreciate beautiful things, youll cherish this edition initshancmedarkbluegoldenstamrbmdinWe firmly believe that once you have this exciting and beautiful book jnV vmir hancta vnu win not nart with it wiltinRlv. Indeed, we Mr Johnson is aware of the iocio-logical aspects but he leaves these to authorities suoh as Professor Titmuss. His book is an anthology of 31 accounts of what it was like to be evacuated.

It is prefaced by a short interesting history of the operation and the successive waves of evacuation before and after the phoney war: the authoriUes had expected an instant arge-scaJe air attack and by January 1 940 over half the first wave had gone back to their homes. The sample of contributors is supposed to be a more or less random one though several of them are journalists or writers. Most of them write well evacuation must have made a vivid patch of childhood experience. Ifs not easy to generalise from so many accounts, some of them rather bitty several children moved two or three times. So much depended on your billet.

One heard at the time all sorts of stories: East End kids taught to play bridge by rich old ladies: "And when you go back to London, Ernie, never forget to lead out your trumps'; frail girls forced to be kennelmaids by mannish pork-; piehatted spinsters on Dartmoor. As i hosts all classes come out well from exnect vnii will want others iiist like it. That is why. we want bT John Updike Published tomorrow, and rasity chc most eaaerly-Baned book of the vrar The u-ay-our. in (era a ions of couples in an am-of-Ehe-way community the subject-mjiicr lhi- uiL loscthcr, Vi toaotver, make Ine iiiii play ritual tames in fact, they are ft cit.li.sed aj to treat cx almost ss liahtl) a.s uiev tlci dinner parties It's no secret, for Instance, why the Aoplcbys and the Simihi ere called pplcsmtthi ITen one couple io orwerve thr rules, and the action really besins Anone who is leuaxated from ih.s rv.

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