Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that reads the Statesman and Nation?"). But the major slowly suppresses his disapproval, just as he suppresses his feeling for Nitsa, the Greek girl who has worked beside him in the underground. As the civil war bleeds Greece, Walker's ife begins to seem flat and inadequate. In Author Weller's scheme, he represents decency, and mere decency is not enough for coping with civil...
...Cost What It Will." Organized labor was out to punish him for being the author of the Taft-Hartley Act and leader of the forces that blocked its repeal. "Cost what it will," the A.F.L.'s William Green had vowed, "we are going to bring about the defeat of the outstandingly reprehensible Senator Taft." A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were prepared to spend millions (collected in $1 and $2 rank & file assessments) to defeat him. He had angered...
Forged Documents. Author Howe himself served in an OSS detachment doing intelligence work with G2, Seventh Army. For this reason, perhaps, his story has an air of solid authenticity when he writes of the training of agents, the forged documents, the mistakes and casualties. He is less successful when he analyzes the motives of Happy and Tiger in betraying their country...
...when he left his village and moved to the capital, Carlos ran up against a lot of other matters, and almost all at once. There were such puzzling things as the political democracy of John Locke, the Marxian dialectic and the news (slightly belated) of the atomic bomb. Author North seems to think that it could happen that way almost anywhere in Central America. He tells how it happened with Carlos...
Revolt in San Marcos offers no pat answers, closes merely by posing its problems honestly. If Author North had as much skill in creating a full gallery of credible characters as he has in drawing Carlos and his problems against the convincing background, he might have written a great novel. It is still a pretty good first...