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Ignazio Silone's The School for Dictators (Harper, $2.50) is not written for those who like to play games. Tall, dark, 38-year-old Ignazio Silone, whose two novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) have been called the sum total of modern Italian literature, has had intense first-hand experience under a Fascist dictator. Editor of a labor paper in Trieste when Mussolini came to power, Silone was pursued by Black Shirts for three years (they killed his brother), escaped in 1931 to Switzerland, where he has since become Mussolini's most embarrassing critic...
...Library's collection is chiefly noted for a very rare group of the works of John Playford, an English music publisher of the late seventeenth century. To the casual viewer, Playford's "An Introduction to the Skill of Music" may appear very striking, since it provides first-hand information of the ideas which people held about music...
...myself could scarcely believe that such things could occur in a twentieth century civilization." He then explained that he had ordered Ambassador Hugh Wilson home from Berlin not by way of formal recall, but to gain "a first-hand picture."* His statement of U. S. abhorrence of Hitler's pogroms was one of the strongest ever directed by a U. S. President at a "friendly" power. Later, White House Secretary Steve Early explained that it was intended to apply to outrages upon Catholics as well as Jews...
...mustard concern and sober-living father of three, Author Hutchinson* wrote The Answering Glory, an intense story of a woman missionary in Africa, from the snug purview of his London suburb. Although he was only eleven when the Armistice was signed, The Unforgotten Prisoner was an apparently first-hand account of English and German War victims. And he wrote Shining Scabbard, a grim novel of French family life, with no closer acquaintance with France than French literature...
...promoted Deputy Governor Forrest Frank Hill to his job. "Frosty" Hill has been with FCA since it was created in 1933 to merge a handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like the farmer he was born in Kansas...