Word: utley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LAST CHANCE IN CHINA (408 pp.)-Freda Utley-Bobbs-Merrill...
...Labor Party asked Freda Utley to stand for Parliament in Manchester, but she declined. She joined the Communist Party and left for Moscow, there married a Soviet government employee she had met in England. It was in Moscow that she bought her first corset. Into it she stuffed the secret dispatches entrusted to her by the Comintern to deliver to the Chinese Communists...
This experience left Miss Utley an embittered and angry woman. During the war she urged the U.S. to sign a negotiated peace with Hitler, so that Germany and Russia could kill each other off. In China, she now wants the U.S. to commit itself to intervention if necessary, "to challenge Russia in the interests of peace and freedom while she is still too weak to dare risk war with us." Like Governor Dewey, she finds it hard to understand a State Department that says so-far-and-no-further to Communism in Europe, while by neutrality in China...
This is a position that many U.S. readers are reaching by themselves, on the basis of news reports from China. Miss Utley's contribution to it would have been more valuable if it ran to less I-told-you-so, and was stripped of strident strictures against those who fail to agree with her at every point...
Sparkplug of Youth Films is muscular, ash-blond Rev. Borland P. Dryer, 36, a boy evangelist grown up, who spent his youth traveling with such famous spellbinders as Billy Sunday and Uldine Utley, later studied at several universities. One day Dryer faced the fact that more people were going to movie houses than to churches. "We were missing the boat," he says. "The visual image was here to stay...