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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1952 THE DAILY TAR HEED PAGE THRES New Leaves faar-Jerker Fosre Who could have . missed the three foot headlines on the front cover of the February 9, issue of The Saturday Evening Post? "I Was The Witness," already a child off the Book-of-the-Month Club, is certainly a seller and circula tion raiser. - - "I Was The Witness is Whit taker Chambers (here at last, as Hollywood would say) own account of the Hiss Trial. This is the first in a series of articles forming a book" of information on the ins and outs of the Communist mechanism working secretly in this country. The former member of the edi torial staffs of The Daily Worker and Time magazine speaks inti mately to his children, the Ameri can people, and tells them in words often passion-noted of how he, an innocent victim of cir cumstances, became the object of much finger pointing. Chambers makes his plea to the American people. Wtih photo graphs of this home-loving gentle man farmer we see him and his wife coursing their snow blanket ed farm and sitting together in their warm living room with their children. He writes of his infant ..daughter, "I liked to watch her , event when she smeared porridge otk her face or dropped it medi tatively oh the floor. My eye came pt rest on the delicate con volutions of her ears those in tricate, perfect ears. The thought passed through , my mind: No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms (the communist view). They have been created only by immense design." Chambers goes on to explain that this thought , was involuntary; however, we can't help thinking that it was voluntary enough to be included in his letter to the American peo ple. Such thoughts as these were also voluntary enough to con struct a stronghold of sympathy. It reminds us somewhat of our beloved T. Lamar Caudle who was so pitylessly accused by ruthless government figures. ' Chambers admitted that he was a communist, but unaware of self finger-pointing he tells what a communist's daily tasks are." He is going about his routine party tasks. He is lifting a drip ping reel of microfilm from a developing tank. He is receiving from a trusted superior an order to go to another country and, in a designated hotel, at a designated hour, meet a man whose name he will never know, but who will give him a package whose con tents he will never learn." Ear lier in the first chapter Chambers explained that "communists were assumed to be criminals, pariahs, clandestine men who lead double lives under false names, travel on false passports - . What else are we to assume if an admitted communist gives us the low-down on .a communists's activities? This serial book will, no doubt, boost circulation for The Satur day Evening Post. This is es pecially true if the appeal for the reopening of the Hiss Trial is granted. We suggest that you not waste your tinie or money or endanger your gullibility; For the reader who is not careful, he may be duped into this same ring of doubletalk for which communists take pride. Chambers touches the heartstrings, but the note is sour and blends in beautif ull with the cacophony of this whole po liitcal uproar. J.R. ' , JEisenJiover Book Giv.s No Answers Eisenhower, the Man and the Symbol, John Gunther, Harper N Brothers, New York, vrj ps., PB.EJ". First impression one gets from reading this simply written book on a presidential possibility .-s one of sitting in on a short inter view with the author. The book manages to bring Eisenhower home. The myth or the halo disappears as we see a picture of a smart administrator who spent arduous years doing routine work for the army, but still could only , make the rank of a lieutenant colonel in 1936 and remain in that position untii 1942. Previously, he was a major for 16 years (due to the slow advancement ways of the mili tary). V World War II was the period of transition from a sound officer into a brilliant chief. From tthe background given, we might pre dict that Eisenhower would be a good president or a bad one. But this matter and the one o&Ca military man stepping into the presidency are still open; to con jecture. Though Gunther, author of "Inside JS .S.A jjives us a thorough background and an ex cellent personality sketch of the general, we can't tell what be would do if elected. Eisenhower has become a poli tician because of this dealings as SHAPE chief. Previously to 1938 he didn't quite understand Amer ican political maneuverings. His philosophies make, him a marked conservative on domestic issues not "prolabor "mentions the New Deal with a-quiver of hor ror". He considers himself a mid. die ' of the roader, "rmt a true liberal but progressive, never theless," as one of his friends point out. European foreign po licy conceptions are along pre sent administration lines but his ideas on Asia are still up in the air. (As chief of staff to Mc Arthur in the Philippines for five years, he knows a good deal about the Far Eastern situation however). - " , : One - point of local interest in the book is the mention of a former chief of the UNC NROTC, Everett E. Hazlett, . Jr. Hazlett may have well decided Eisen hower's military career for him. The two were boyhood pals and when Kazlett was taking" the Naval Academy exam, he con vinced Ike to take both the Navy (See EISENHOWER, page 8) '''FEBRUARY Europe in Modern Tirnas By Warren O. Ault Was $5.93. OUR prica $1.33 Themes and Variations By Aldous Huxley Was $3.50-.OUR PRICE $1.33 Philosophers Quest By Irwin Edman Was $3.00... ..OUR PRICE $1.49 LOOK THEM OVER AT AT THE , INTIMATE , -BOOKSHOP 205 E. Franklin Street. DAI LY CROSSWORD ACROSS 7. 1, Float 8. 5. Pall sudden- .9. ly on water Sl Goddesses of seasons XI. 10. A lemur 15. 12. 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