Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 44

4k i f'V Vi- i 4 i 18 Friday April 5 1968 Citizen-News AS-- BOOK COMMENT By ROBERT JOSEPH Part of our irresolution may TVI remarked that if tlj wdl 'tap un example quotes Hegel: history of China slur development so that not concern ourselves any This pace set by die best ti of the 19th Century derstanding of both our allies and our adversaries China and the West byWolfgang Franke (U of Sou Carolina Press $595) 'offers a terse were unilaterally to permit its forces to be drawn into a conflict in Indochina' and in a succession of Asian wars the rad result would be to drain J'j rr'jJ "'f 1 7 V'- off our resources and weaken iwiitten account which persUtinevaluat msive nbsi- of western treatment of 1 the Far East today Eur our over-all defensive post Chinese history We are Vic- oriented history taught tims states the-' author pro- schools and colleges has lessor of Chinese History at us an easy victim of bo Hamburg University visiting judice and blind ignora Fellow at Harvard of 19th in- understanding and evai tellectual snobbery which for i China and its Revolutioi Thus wrote President Eisenhower in for the account of his custody of eight years We have come far away from that view and from the concept of power itself which Seyom Brown in The Faces of Power (Columbia University Press $895) defines as the national ability to effect leadership and persuasion of other nations In this study of the constancy and change of the power concept and the power use from Truman to Johnson the author makes the cogent point that physical force not the on- ly or even the most effective persuader where moral ample' better performance and common sense ar other a 1 1 applicable has become our chief international weapon We the free world suffer "'S: conclusion drawn for US foreign the -Guests at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas make the size! pool and lanai area a favorite gathering spot during the daytime her first major one-man show at the Comara Gallery author1 writes 'in summation 1 that the US would lose 7 Influence unless we iden- SM-Hf tified 'ourselves with -those social1 and political forces demanding greater i a 1 We have used 7 ex-i ample less moral suasion less and force more without i more become a self-contained city Yanr i tjL blem in the first place 1 and Dolly J-LinLn-l AROUND THE WORLD IN 226 Circ navigator Sir Francis Chichester describes I single-handed voyage around the world in a foot ketch in a new book Moth Circles i The world-famous lone sailor who i his 65th birthday' during his extraordir last year broke seven major sailing rect the1 trip 'i 1 There are probably dazzling hostelries along the 5-mile Las Vegas than any comparable stretch of real estate in America Flagship of this magnificent concrete fleet is the Riviera Hotel-first of the true high-rise structures hi the area have been presented oni the Versailles Room stage hl I il 1 1 1 I H''v'-': j' il i IV' -A 3' 3 i -W-H -VI "T' 1 '-J -j1' i I i 'I 1 1 'I' ''i fc 1 -7 hi i i i 1- i -1 jr j- '1 V'i-i y-'-' '-Is i Ti Li -It i i 'r 1 i -3 1 'j 1 3 rv' L' Vi 3 '-i 1 1 I i i- i 7 I'- TO WATCH FOR j''- 'M H-'l d-i The newly-remodeled Star- MGM to Film lite Theatre is a' favoritestepV in the wee hours Here one may see sucit personalities as Frank Sinatra Johnny Carson' Lucille Ball Zsa Zsa Gabor ni or the sonES of Vic a Danrnne 1 a me songs or vie uamrae pubiished today The story set Sarah Vaugtan or Aercuraus 18th CentuI Eri gtendfis-a J( comedy of Shecky documentation of how 1 Hmkory Room off the spa- a irishman named Den- 4 i brated voyage during BOOKS offering the ultimate in resort and convention facilities The! 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