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...news agency, Java-born South African Author Schiemer, now 23, was a fledgling reporter of the Cairo scene for a year beginning in March 1953. He met Nasser and Naguib, original front man of the coup, and made friends with members of the Arab League, the Moslem Brotherhood, Egyptian army officers and plain people of the poor native quarter where he lived. With its probing look at Egyptian attitudes, motivations and customs, the book is written more between the headlines than on top of them...
...Steam Safari to Portland, Maine, and the people with whom we went had too foresaken rest, church, comics, and TV. Instead we all got very sooty, and very tired, and very aesthetically fulfilled. For that one day of rest, you see, we were a brotherhood of a curious breed. It was a railroad enthusiasts' picnic...
...near-senseless attacks and counterattacks, Author Heinrich has his hero make two kinds of sense. One is the unspoken sense of togetherness in the brotherhood of suffering, or as Steiner tries to put it, "By himself a man is scrap iron." The other is that courage has a logic (or a lunacy) all its own: "To fight for a conviction does not require heroism. Heroism begins where the meaninglessness of the sacrifice remains the last, only message the dead can leave behind." You Mustn't Bawl. The simple footslogger passes this test best in The Cross of Iron. Novelist...
This sort of rationalization has a wide adherence in Dixie today. Syndicated Southern Columnist John Temple Graves put it into words: "With the brotherhood of man under God so precious in religious faith, no one says men of God should fail to oppose hate, intolerance, injustice and discrimination. But many of us who think we, too, have religious faith look on ourselves as still children of God when we say race separation among the school masses of the South is a police, cultural and biological necessity and has nothing to do with brotherhood...
...Vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, in a press conference before the off the record class-room speech, denied New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan's charge that he was backed by racketeers. "I have been investigated by grand juries, and congressional committees. I would submit to an honest investigation in New York City, confident that no irregularities would be found...