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...Hartford, Conn., German-born Richard Julius ("Jan Valtin") Krebs, ex-Communist bravo whose bloody Out of the Night was a prewar bestseller, got his U.S. citizenship papers. In San Francisco, best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang's 14-year-old daughter, Yu Hua, got into the U.S. on a visitor's permit-after a slight delay. The local immigration man claimed he had a "confidential" tip that she intended to stay for good, kept her aboard ship for two days & nights, finally took a chance...
German-born Richard Julius Hermann Krebs ("Jan Valtin") has been under fire again-this time real fire. In 1941, after publication of his autobiographical Out of the Night, U.S. leftists damned him as a former Gestapo agent (he said he had joined to bore from within) and a tattletale Communist who had owned to some strange deeds before his apostasy. Plain citizens began to wonder whether he was a fraud, a martyr or a marvel...
...Corporal Valtin's job in the 24th was gathering Joe Blow stories to be sent to U.S. hometown papers. Much of Children of Yesterday reads like an extended P.R.O. report: Pvt. So-and-So of Topeka, Kans. did this, Lieut. So-and-So of Valdosta, Ga. did that. So many hundreds (probably 500 to 1,000) of individuals are mentioned by rank, name and home address that at points the text must come almost straight from unit rosters...
...these are the men who did the sweating and slugging, who wrote the story of the 24th on Leyte, Mindoro, Luzon, Mindanao. For the general reader, the best parts are those in which Valtin is the observer, not the recorder. A G.I. wants a pair of pliers. Why? To salvage gold teeth from a dead Jap. "Use your rifle butt," says a friend...
...village square a tired rifleman sits down to eat a can of K-ration cheese. A fully armed Jap suddenly springs from an adjacent house, starts running away. The rifleman puts down the cheese, picks up his rifle, aims, fires twice. "Missed the bastard," he calls out to Valtin, sitting near by; "don't put my name in that book of yours...