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...CORNER OF THE WORLD (246 pp.)- Robert Shaplen-Knopf...
...Robert Shaplen's book of short stories, A Corner of the World, has the topical interest of current news dispatches from Asia. Only the first story has a China setting (Calcutta, Saigon, Manila and Macao are backdrops for the others), but all of them have a common theme: the tragedy of a billion people caught in the tidal wave of change sweeping the Far East. Complementing this theme is the guilt-edged confusion with which Shaplen's white men duck the vast problem instead of facing...
...Kravchenko? The New York Times, which had a clear beat on the story, identified him as the 38-year-old chief of the metals section of the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington. Timesman Joseph Shaplen, a veteran antiStalinist, knew where Kravchenko was, but would let no other reporters at him. Friends recalled that Kravchenko has a wife and four-year-old son in Moscow, that his mother had recently been freed by the retreating Germans after three years as a prisoner of war. Would something happen to them...