Bookshelf Briefs
REVIEWS
Bookshelf Briefs TO PARAPHRASE ECCLESIASTES, of making many books on Communism there is no end. By now, too, there is an unhappy "weariness of flesh" and mind and heart which goes with too much...
...practical politics...
...Though rejected by the public, the Communists tried to gain footholds on the American scene...
...In fulfillment of the disgraceful Yalta agreement to hand over all Russians captured in the West to the USSR...
...Only after remarkable successes and considerable damage were these infiltrators rolled back...
...Thus, his 10-year trip through prisons, tribunals and "special camps for political prisoners" began...
...But three months before the publication of his book, a victim of his ordeals, he died at the age of 32...
...The process consisted of regular four-hour indoctrination meetings three times a week, plus a constant—sometimes active, sometimes passive—participation in mass meetings, parades and trials...
...it can always at least deny the other, ignoble necessity and it can sometimes counteract it...
...Praeger...
...In a remarkably lucid, step-by-step report...
...Take four new publications: One describes "new China," the second, Communism in search of support in the U.S., the third, Russian labor camps, and the fourth, revenge for the Hungarian uprising...
...259 pp...
...General Frank How-ley...
...The Communist Persuasion...
...David J. Saposs retraces Communist attempts to invade America bv ballot and bulletin...
...As a matter of fact, he and his colleagues looked forward rather hopefully to the "progressive reformers...
...The Hidden Russia...
...Holt...
...openly admitting their identity, but surreptitiously concealing their purposes...
...By now, too, there is an unhappy "weariness of flesh" and mind and heart which goes with too much study of books in this specialized and virtually inexhaustible field...
...We can refuse to accept or condone what has happened, we can keep our hearts and minds alive to it, we can refuse to countenance falsehood, and keep faith with innocence even after its murder...
...Father Winance, a Belgian-born Benedictine monk and professor of philosophy, taught at Chinese universities and was familiar with Chinese thought and language...
...Nagy and his confreres were sentenced to death for defending their own people...
...His masterful study reveals that it had no permanent effects on his ability to think and observe freely, but it did prove quite effective on many Chinese he had known and whose progress he had followed through the years...
...This reply will never fail to be made...
...By N. N. Krashnov Jr...
...Probably no other scientifically trained and temperamentally competent Westerner had had his experience...
...5.00...
...215 pp...
...and necessary as a reply to that other, ignoble necessity which is called historical...
...7.50...
...Brought up in Western Europe, the author discovered the USSR with Western eyes and described it subsequently in Western language, but as the son of a "White Russian" refugee family, he had close emotional and linguistic ties to the land of his fathers...
...3.95...
...The anonymous authors, probably themselves Freedom Fighters, prove this point by point...
...This thought might well conclude every book on Communism...
...Like many other Westerners, he saw no reason to leave China when the Communists took power...
...Saposs' study shows the patience, skill and adaptability U.S...
...Because of the Khrushchev decrees he was "freed" to slave "voluntarily" in forced labor camps in Central Asia until he escaped...
...but our impotence is not total...
...in the long run it will destroy it and so make possible some imperceptible advance in the real history of mankind...
...By David J. Saposs...
...239 pp...
...In this way a certain kind of action is possible, very inadequate no doubt, but necessary in its way...
...Of necessity, books on Communism can explore only one facet, and sometimes only a fraction of a facet, of that many-faceted subject, which is constant in essence but always changing in appearance...
...Communists employed in their work...
...For more than a year, the new rulers merely "observed" him at work before they began to brainwash him...
...In this well-written personal story —to which U.S...
...His book contains more valuable first-hand information on contemporary Soviet methods and moods than many a recent travelogue by a Western reporter misinterpreting the present-day Soviet Union...
...In a sense, almost every new book merely supplies a new chapter to the continuing multi-volume work on Communism...
...hero of the Berlin Blockade, has written a forceful foreword—the Russia of Stalin and Khrushchev is seen from a unique vantage point...
...The Soviets prosecuted this as a crime while they masked their own crimes in "Soviet legality...
...Unrelated though they seem, they are to each other as four witnesses bearing different evidence against the same murderer...
...Had the title not been used in a less factual and consequential context, this instructive case-study of Communist influence on American politics might well have been named The Hidden Persuaders...
...Krashnov was kidnapped by British Army officers and turned over to Soviet authorities...
...For a limited time thev made inroads into "liberal" and "labor" groups and succeeded at times in influencing sizable sections of nationwide public opinion by clever camouflage and fellow travelers...
...Chiefly concerned with state and national elections...
...This volume contains imaginary briefs, cross-examinations and summaries which counsel for the defense might have presented on behalf of Irme Nagy and his fellow defendants if a court of justice, rather than a Soviet kangaroo court, had tried them...
...Anonymous...
...341 pp...
...In his splendid preface, Albert Camus wrote: "It is true that we have been and still are in a sense impotent in the face of the Hungarian tragedy...
...Communism in American Politics...
...NORBERT MUHLEN...
...which makes his description a highly valuable contribution to our understanding of Chinese Communism...
...The Truth About the Nagy Affair...
...Public Affairs...
...Saposs' reference to and quotations from THE NEW LEADER demonstrate the leading role of this magazine in the anti-Communist struggle...
...Eager "to tell the West the whole truth without coloring or exaggerating," which his Soviet fellow sufferers implored him to do, Krashnov has succeeded in writing his report of suffering in and out of Russian prison camps...
...This industrious chronicle concerns the Communist role in U.S...
...5.00...
...By Eleutherius Winance, 0. S. B. Kenedy...
...Father Winance describes and analyzes the year and half of his brainwashing...
Vol. 43 • April 1960 • No. 16
