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SOUL OF WOOD by Jakov Lind. 190 pages. Grove...
These disturbing fables might have as their epigraph the theme of Goya's nightmarish etching cycle, the Caprichos: "The sleep of reason produces monsters." With merciless humor, Goya gave the forms of grotesque man-beasts to 18th century hypocrisies. Jakov Lind, writing cheerily of cannibals and cripples in Nazi Germany, imprisons the reader in sweaty dreams of guilt. The guilt is not merely German. Lind's force lies in his ability to suggest that the sleep of reason in this century produced not only monsters but a monstrous complicity-a pact signed and mutually witnessed by murderers, accessories...
...Look," said a U.N. correspondent, pointing from the window of a press train in Korea one day last week, "here comes our domesticated Communist." Out of a jeep, wearing a trim Eisenhower jacket, climbed burly Jakov Levi, 30, foreign editor of Belgrade's Borba, and first Red newsman accredited to the U.N. forces...
...Third General Assembly closed last week on a note of hope. It took credit for the fact that its soothing, pale-green lounge had provided a common meeting ground for the U.S.'s Philip Jessup and Russia's Jakov Malik when they began negotiating the Berlin blockade's end. Actually the job the Assembly had done was middling. It had (among other things) admitted Israel to U.N.; defeated a Latin American motion to lift the diplomatic boycott of Spain; again asked the Big Five to curb their veto. Perhaps the most significant measure-though it had little...
Despite Soviet denials, Warsaw papers reported last week the arrival in Warsaw of six agents of the Soviet Secret Police who thoroughly combed the Soviet Embassy, departed for Moscow with six trunks full of supposed evidence against the vanished former Soviet Ambassador to Poland, Jakov K. Davtyan. An exceptional Soviet envoy who has been recalled to Moscow, then sent back to his post as no traitor to Stalin, is Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander Troyanovsky. a certified...