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Sectloii Two -- Page Six THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER Thursday. August 20. 1964 LIBRARY NEWS "toipuoMAt Among WAR MORS" by Robert Murphy A brief private conversation with President Roosevelt in 1940, transformed Robert Murphy from a conventional diplomat into a secret agent--the President's personal representative and General Eisenhower's political adviser in the noman's- land of French North Af- . rica. His first assignment was to thread his way through the nightmare tangle of Vichy French, neutral French, and free French, lining up support for the Allied invasion of Africa. The cooperation, he impro vised between diplomats and warriors was to become a basic policy of the State department as the commitments of the United States proliferated all over the world. Murphy reported directly to Roosevelt and carried out his orders outside the chain of command. sometimes by-passing his superiors in the Department of State. As a result of this unorthodox procedure many significant events of the war went unrecorded. In "Diplomat A- - mong- Warrrors'T Robert Murphy tells the inside story of his first special assignment and of subsequent missions for Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower, filling in the gaps that still remain in the official records of the United States government. Murphy coordinated American diplomacy with Allied military operations during the invasion on Italy and the conquest and occupation of Germany. He was the first postwar Ambassador to Japan and helped negotiate the Korean armistice agreement. Later, serving on the American delegation to the United Nations, he was involved in the Suez Crisis and the landings of the U. S. Marines in Lebanon in 1958. Serving quietly and competently as a high-level international troubleshooter, Robert Murphy achieved an impressive reputation 'as a man who could get things done in the face of bewildering adversity. His book is an objective, first-hand account of history in the making. "DEATH IN D E A k l N S WOOD" by RhoWia Petlie A blazing tire destroys an empty house in Deakins Wood and with it the peace of that pleasant country community. The police find that the fire was started by a chemical device triggered by the turning on of a water tap; they also find a charred body in the embers. But no one in Deakins Wood is missing. While Inspector Mac- Lurg of Scotland Yard gathers revealing information about the local inhabitants, clever laboratory work establishes the identity of the corpse. By this time MacLurg knows that almost every household contains a possible killer. The chief suspect, however, is Janice Blayne, a pretty young widow who had lied about her whereabouts during the weekend of the murder. Then another dead body is found, this time in the canal. There is an exciting climax to his story of arson and murder, and a solution which has a macabre surprise. "THE GREEN FELT JI NGLE" by Ed Reid, Ovid Deniaris "The Green Felt Jungle" is th<? first book that dares to penetrate the mirage of Las Vegas,, the respectable, fun-loving resort where carefree tourists, may innocently and legally indulge in gambling. In h carefully documented expose' which, includes some astounding, secretly taped confidential conversations), the authors explore the real Las Vegas -- a clever (and profitable! front for organized crime. Everything is legal, of course -everything except mysterious, unreported murders, systematic tax evasion, widespread prostitution, tacit segregation, and the graft greased the entire system.-- -- Why was Bugsy Siegel, the founder of modern Las Vegas, liquidated? Who are some of Frank Sinatra's sinister partners in the Sand hotel? How large is Jimmy Hoffa's interest in the glittering hotels along the Strip? Guess who some of Senator Barry Goldwater's companions have been on his numerous gambling junkets. And why was the body of a United States Senator who died just before election day preserved in a bathtub full of ice until all the returns were in? Citing irrefutable evidence, the authors expose the ways in which some of the nation's top criminals, under the pretense of operating "legitimate" businesses, are actually pouring millions of tourist-trade dollars into the coffers of the Mafia. They name the hidden interests who really control the casinos and disclose the hypocrisy and corruption that surround public officials on virtually every level of government. Also explained in detail are the tourist's actual chances of coming away a winner, the various "house percentages," the subtle devices used to lure players to the tables and keep them there. Ironically, the gambling equipment is possibly the only thing in Las Vegas that is on the level. "MY AUNT MAXINE" by Diana Forbes Robertson The fabulous Maxine Elliott, bright star of the theatre of her day, had been called "the most beautiful woman in the world" and had cut a great' swath in international society. But her magic was not always apparent to her little English niece. As a child, she knew her only as "Auntie Dettie," a corpulent, bridge-player, rather trying old relative; later, at Maxine's*- Mediterranean villa, she saw her surrounded by celebrities - - Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, Douglas Fairbanks, Senior -living out a life of fading glamour. This is the story of the niece's search for the legendary figure that came earlier-- a search that takes her back to Mavine's beginnings as Jessie Dermot in a seaport town in Maine, and forward again through the great theatre days, in America and England, from the 1880s to the 1920s. From her seafaring Maine origins, Jessie moves on to New York, invents her new name, and has her trial flights in the theatre under Augustin Daly and Rose Couglan. Later comes her checkered marriage? to the comedian Nat Goodwin, their Broadway successes together, their barnstorming years across the nation, their invasion of England, and their choice of it as second home. Maxine become a star in her own right -in her own way and her other great personal triumphs. J. P. Morgan "builds a theatre for her"; she is seen with King Edward VII at Maricnbad; the tennis champion, lovable Tony Wilding, become her loyal attendant. World War I interrupts with a strange interlude on a barge in Belgium. Afterward the theatre begins to recede as Maxine's social life takes priority, and her saga ends as another war begins, at the Chateau de L'Horizon on the Riviera. Early in her career, Maxine had brought her little sister, Gertrude, into the theatre with her. In England, Gertrude, now a fine acrtress herself, played opposite the leading English star, Sir Johnston Forbes- Robertson. They married, and the author is the fourth daughter of that marriage. The Forbes-Robertson story runs through Maxine's to give it an added dimension. This is wonderfully nostalgic adventure, full of theatre lore, with vivid glimpses of the American scene and the international set, dominated by the strong personality pf a famous star who always Tiated acting. The vivid panorama is enlivened by many photographs, in eluding rare snapshots of Max ine and such "greats" of her day as Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Tony Wilding and the King. "DALLAS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE" ay Leslie, Warren is not the story of an assassination; it is the story of a city a city that did not trust itself to receive the President of the United States--and whose worst fears were far out striplied by a double murder that shocked the whole civilized world a city where political discussion is a matter of agreement or of silence a city where integration was achieved without incident, but where Adlai Stevenson was struck and mobbed by picketers a city with a big incidence of political violence, accomplished almost entirely by amateurs. a city that calls itself "the Athens of the alfalfa fields" but that bars David Oistrakh from its concert halls because of his nationality Warren Leslie paints a brilliant portrait of this disturbed -city and <of t he people who live, in it. There are the "yes or no" men who sit on the Citizens' Council an absolutely unofficial, unelected. and self-perpetrating group of businessmen in Dallas, and there are the relief families of the slums in West Dallas; there are the absolutists, who make up an unofficial third political party in the city; the compulsive right-wing women, the men who administer the law and the men who break it, the men of conscience who work to make unpopular causes palatable to the city, the silent minority of liberals. These people are citizens of a city that has had to face a whole world's curiosity and accusations. Outsiders who have wondered about Dallas will find that Warren Leslie reveals not only what Dallas is and how it became what it is, but that he also raises questions which should be asked about every city. "RASCALS' HEAVEN" by F. Van Wyck Mason It is a curious fact that is the first major novel about FREUNl MIRY. 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The Spanish were pushing fiercely in from the South, the French savagely from the West, and the Indians from all sides. The situation demanded extraordinary leadership and James Oglethorpe provided just that. F. Van Wyck Mason has told the exciting story of the Georgia colony the only one which was settled as a planned operai ion t hrough a number of most unusual characters. One of these is a Tuscaroro brave, who is really a full-blooded Englishman. Another is a pretty girl from P.oston who joins'the colony because she has been involved in a scandal at home. There is a tough old Indian trader married to a half-caste Greek princess; a captain of the South Carolina Rangers; a giant. Negro who claims to be an Ashanti prince; and last, but certainly not least, Ogelthorpe himself. The novel begins a foot-hills of the gre; mountains when an war party attacks a Catawba village and massacres most of the inhabitants. It ends with the siege of St. Augustine eight years later; in between is packed sufficient exciting historically accurate action, romance and suspense to satisfy the most exacting reader. ADULT NON-FICTION "Mind Jf I Differ?" by Mills and Hasley (A Catholic-Unitarian Dialogue) It began when Betty Mills, a Unitarian, read "Reproachfully General long the ) Smoky Iroquois Yours" by Lucile Hasley, a convert to the Catholic faith, and "felt compelled" to write her a fan letter. Fan? Perhaps not exactly. She liked the writing and the writer, but--"I can't swallow the religious porridge you serve up." Lucile Hasley answered amiably, recommending some books. A year went by and Betty Mills wrote again. The letters began to flow. Early in the flow, Lucile showed some of them to me. I could not stop reading.. I felt that they must at all costs keep flowing. Here they are. How two housewives could write letters of this vitality in halfhours squeezed out of such days as the letters, show them living, I do not know. Incredibly, they could. And they resisted the temptation to polish them for publication. This is the dialogue as it happened. The key phrase was in the opening letter: "Since, I suspect, both Catholics and Protestants are here to stay, it is time they began to understand each other better." Lucile Hasley stated the purpose of the book-to-be with a kind of pinpoint precision: "Above all else I want our letters to demonstrate (maybe?) that two housewies chatting--over"' the | back fence can be just as ecumenical as the Big Deal going on in Rome." Ecumenism has come to mean a drawing together of religious groups long sundered. Even if union of minds--agreement as to the doctrines and practices which sunder them -- maybe be far off, what is there to keep the union of hearts from beginning here and now? Quite suddenly it seems monstrous that the beginning should not be made. That is where Betty Mills and Lucile Hasley come in. "I should like this dialogue," says Betty Mills, "to show that both of us learned something about some fellow travellers in God's world." Every reader, whatever his religion, wil share in the, learning. "All Over God's Irish Heaven" by Leo R. Ward The only thing more delightful ' than Ireland are "the trish and here they are. With an observation much more penetrating than that found in a travel book or tourist diary, the author goes "behind the scenes" of modem Ireland's cultural and economic revolution and analyzes the movements and conditions that have shaped and formed modem Irish thought: Muintir Na Tire, the great Irish national movement to courage local unity; the Legion or Mary, Ireland's outstanding contribution to universal Catholic action, and particularly the Flead.Ceoil and similar drama clubs and pageants, which are at the heart of today's Irish re-awakening. Nor does the author neglect history and the cojitributio$k qf StacTi great heroes as Padraic Pearse, "the man who above all others, at least in this century gave labor and shock, all. his compatriots into being Irishmen." ttere, then, is the face, the heart and the mind of Ireland revealed as only one can reveal it who brings both a personal love and knowledge to his subject. 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