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...evidence on the atrocities is convincing; so is the general culpability of the accused, confessing men. But U.S. spectators will be left wondering about Russian court procedure. (As Arthur Koestler observes in his new book of essays-see BOOKS: ". . . that those particular Germans committed those particular crimes was proved by no other evidence than their own confession.") And the extraordinarily full, frank admissions of the accused Germans are even more mystifying, to a Western mind, than the equally glib confessions of the Russians accused, some years ago, in the Moscow purge trials...
...YOGI AND THE COMMISSAR-Arthur Koestler-Macmillan...
Hungarian-born Arthur Koestler, once a Communist and still a Socialist, wears what he calls an Old School tie that is "one of the most distinguished . . . of the good old Continent." In Germany, the Old School was named Dachau and Buchenwald; in Spain, it was Seville (Koestler was imprisoned there for three months, under sentence of death). There was also France's Le Vernet, Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes...
Unlike most of his fellow alumni, Arthur Koestler has succeeded in transforming his private horrors into brilliant pictures of contemporary life, his screams into some of the best of contemporary writing. His brush with death in Spain and France, plus his disillusioning lessons as a revolutionary, gave him the material for such bleak disquisitions as Dialogue with Death, Scum of the Earth, Arrival and Departure, and also for one of the finest novels of the past decade, Darkness at Noon (TIME...
...incredible guilelessness of Isaac Emmanuel's errand, and his courage and dignity before his brutal judge and torturers, serve all the more to convince the Gestapo that he has a great deal to cover up. After prison scenes which recall those of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the old man is released, thanks to an Anglo-Jewish cabaret star and a Nazi bigshot (Walter Rilla) who is infatuated with her. When at length old Isaac does find the boy's mother, she has married a Nazi and has so wholly betrayed all that was ever good...