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...fire line to occupy a sizable swath of Pakistan-held territory as a "precautionary measure" against further infiltrators. Even Indian resentment of the failure of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to denounce Pakistani aggression was mollified by public circulation of a report by Australia's Lieut. General Robert Nimmo. He has served for eleven years in Kashmir as the U.N.'s chief observer, and he accused Pakistan of "numerous and widespread" violations...
Humbug or Healer? To his fine gallery of free men-Gully Jimson in The Horse's Mouth, Chester Nimmo in Prisoner of Grace-Cary has added the Rev. Walter Preedy. In this hollow-chested, egotistical evangelist, the sense of God is like a torment. His specialty is faith healing. To him and to his followers in the London suburb of Pant's Road, it is blasphemy to call a doctor, for that is an admission that God is incapable of miracles. Preedy seems to have worked quite a few miracles himself, and his fame is spreading. This...
...Latter told her story - that of a woman who obviously needed two husbands, behaved outrageously with both, but was so genuinely lovable that neither could live without her, and all three wound up living to gether. In Volume II, Except the Lord, her first husband, Liberal Politician Ches ter Nimmo, had his say and explained how a willful, lusty moralist used his wife, his brains and his political savvy to rise from a small-town spellbinder to the peerage and a Cabinet post. In Not Honour More, Husband No. 2, Jim Latter, gets his chance to speak up. A simple...
...height of Britain's 1926 general strike, Jim discovers that Nina has helped Nimmo in a way that also helps the Communists, and decides to kill her as a lesson in political and personal morality for the England he loves. After that, it's the gallows for Jim Latter (Chester Nimmo has already died of a heart attack). Only a novelist of Gary's power could have brought off this unlikely tale. This last third of the trilogy is also last in merit. But like the rest, it has move and go and a life...
...Christ, he feels his faith oozing away. He turns to the prophets of social revolution, soaks up the teachings of Proudhon, Marx and Bakunin. and becomes a labor organizer. But a violent and bitter strike convinces him that his new gods are false. At novel's end, Chester Nimmo, over 21, is clean of illusions", and ready for whatever further adventures life and Author Gary have in store for him. That there will be more seems likely, for Chester Nimmo has captured the next best thing to Joyce Gary's comic genius, his endless curiosity...