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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL: SATURDAY. MARCH 18, 1944. 11 VOL. CLXXIII. No.

67 I Books of the Day and Th FRIEND IN NEED MXTSSOK SPONSORS Mysteries Theme of House Novel of Ancient Imaginative BOOK OF THE WEEK The Great Problem 3 Bfg NOVELS $3. DRAGONWYCK. By Anya Seton. Allen; 336 pages. By CHARLES DOUGLAS.

WHAT TO DO WITH GERMANY. By Louis Nizer. Ambassador Nicholas Van Ryn, at the Dragon utii'ch have the whole continent talking wyck estate, for an extended visit. Most novelists will readily confess that ideas for their writings have come to them in the guise of rcla. tivcly simple happenings, perhaps ft A' f'r (5 k-a only a casual word, a chance meeting with some striking personality, or a fleeting vista of scenic grandeur.

Anya Seton admits that the germ of Dragonwyck was born Mtl mm Arriving at the huge Hudson manor house she encounters many things she has never dreamed of, for the towered structure of Dragonwyck holds many dark secrets. Among them there is the uncanny music of an old harpsichord accompanied by weird, maniacal laughter from the Red Room, then there is the Tower where Nicholas secludes himself for days at a time, from which he always emerges with a strange, sickening odor clinging to him. These are but two of the many mysteries confronting this simple country girl, and in the unravelling of Books; 213 pages, $3.25. By M. J.

HEFFERNAN IN November 1918 the most civilized nations of the world, after four years of barbaric slaughter, laid down their arms and took up the job of making peace. The war had been won by the Allied nations despite many blunders; the peace was a failure because nobody kne.w how to ensure its permanence. There was conflict of opinion and method, international jealousies, indifference. The real war criminals were never punished; the German General Staff had already at the time of the Armistice formed its plans for a new war; the victors could not hang together, and they could not read the mind of Germany. Unpreparedness for peace begot another war which is now scattering the broken bodies of the finest of the world's youth to the four quarters of by BETTY while on a week-end motoring trip with her husband, when someone pointed out a reputed "haunted" house.

This set her thinking of what life would have been like in such houses as these a hundred years ago. The resultant novel has given us a worthy successor to her My STORE HOURS: Theoaosia. 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

says: La Jver means Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. HOW TO PREPARE YOUR IN COME TAX 1944 EDITION. For the locale of her story Miss Seton has chosen the charming countryside bounding the Hudson River, and the old town of Hudson itself. The time span takes place in the middle of the eighteenth century, and in the writing there is abundant evidence of much By Lancelot J.

Smith, C.A., I Chicago S00t yegr oure them the whole course of her life is changed. Still a young man and the last of his line, Nicholas Van Ryn is one of the few remaining "potroons" a class of wealthy landowners of that day who levied tribute from their tenant-farmers. Although outwardly a well-educated, cultured country gentleman, and handsome in a cold, hard way, he proves to be the biggest mystery of all, as Miranda finds out to her sorrow. Peopled throughout with many and varied characters, the story, gives the reader a remarkable cross-section view of an era when great wealth was accepted as the natural heritage of those who owned the land, and which witnessed the awakening of- the masses to the- injustices imposed upon them a system which, was a relic of feudalism. Splendidly written, Dragonwyck holds the imagination from beginning to end, and gives promise of holding a high pot in the field of fiction.

Anya Seton painstaking re fcy thm author of "KING'S ROW" Tha man vh wrote "KING'S BOW" and 'TLOODS the world. It is in the hope that the mistakes of the last peace may not be repeated after the present war is won that this book is written. During a war there is no confusion of objectives. They are to kill and destroy. In peace making there is abundant confusion.

In war if you do not kill you will be killed there is no time for indecision. Peace making permits all kinds of indecision. The millions of lives given up to ensure the kind of peace that we desire after, this war will be wasted if there is no thought turned to the problems beforehand. Study of the last peace gives the clues to a lasting new peace. The term "study" is deliberate.

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It could be a "tonic" for many! Thoughtful gift for convalesc i friend, etc. 2.50 ancestors were Africans, brought over by the slave traders as early as the 16th century. It is absorbing and humorous reading with the exception of the introduction, which is given by the translator, and is a short, serious outline of Haiti's history. Witchcraft and voodooism are the dominating factors In the story, interwoven with Tamour a la negre and culminating in a double murder. Cockfights, gambling, rum at 10 cents a gallon, and festive funerals, compared with which an Irish wake Dales into insignificance, are all Too many rush into theories of what should be done with Germany and the German people to make them innocuous.

There are those who cry for extermination of the entire German race Others would be satisfied with a less bloody solution; they would sterilize the race and let it die out. There is the breeding-out theory, which would scatter the Germans and mix them with other races. There are the sponsors of dismemberment of the Reich, breaking it up again into a number of small, impotent states. Others would ship the Germans com- pulsorily forced migration that the Germany themselves have practised so frequently in this war to colonization areas. In none of these alone is the solution.

Mr. Nizer holds that, the problem is far more complex than any of those theorists make out. He makes a very good case in this book. Among the solutions to be shunned are the "kill them" and the "forgive and forget" extremes. Maudlin sympathy is also ruled out.

The bestiality and the barbarousness of the Germans in war call for punishment. Appropriate penalties must be exacted. There must be assurance that the Germans, un-i repentant as they were after the last wardo not prepare another holocaust. German "repentance" is a fraud. There is no such thing.

The German people has been drugged by the world conquest idea for more than a century. This "destiny" has brought about five wars in that period. There can be no reform voluntarily for the Germans; no generosity will make them settle down in a peaceful comity of nations. A solution on a reasoned basis is given by Mr. Nizer.

He surveys the case of Germany and the mass mental illness of the nation in his search for a cure. Broad deductions have been made from particular situations; history has been consulted, especially the period since the Treaty of Versailles; German and Allied conduct have been studied and examined so that the lessons learned, from experience may be applied; and facts have shaped the recommendations. Perspective governs the conclusion, the view is down a long period into the future. Above all Mr. Nizer insists on justice.

This must be impartial. Nations and individuals criminally responsible are to be duly punished, after international commissions have given decisions. The Pan-Germans must be obliterated by an avenging justice. These include the Nazi leaders, the Fuehrer, his aides, all the gauleiters, the High Command, the Gestapo, the Sturm Abteilung, the Labor Front, the Schutzstaffel, the Nazi courts. The methods used by the Germans after the Versailles treaty to avoid penalties are no longer to be allowed to succeed.

The Prussian war cult and its Nazi tools are to be exterminated. Punishment is economic also. All plants and machinery that could be used to build up another war machine are to be taken out of German control. Stolen property, whether acquired by the Germans by force or pseudo-legal methods, is to be restored. There must be reparations, paid, in money, goods and labor.

Germany is to be held responsible for the reconstruction of the devastated areas. Thus Germany is to be made innocuous for a long period. Education, to erase the false teaching of the Nazis, is an especial concern. The whole present system in Germany is to be scrapped, and the new system introduced under international auspices. Eradicate the evil and leave the good is the essence of the Nizer plan.

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