Word: weller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRACK IN THE COLUMN (370 pp.] -George Weller-Random House...
...foreign correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, George Weller watched the British retreat from Greece in 1941. When the British returned in 1944, so did Weller; like many another correspondent, he developed a deep affection for the country. The Crack in the Column, an admirably objective novel beginning in the days of the Nazi occupation and ending with the outbreak of civil war, is the product of George Weller's fondness for Greece and its hard-pressed people...
...reads the Statesman and Nation?"). But the major slowly suppresses his disapproval, just as he suppresses his feeling for Nitsa, the Greek girl who has worked beside him in the underground. As the civil war bleeds Greece, Walker's ife begins to seem flat and inadequate. In Author Weller's scheme, he represents decency, and mere decency is not enough for coping with civil...
Throw Some Weight. Weller, who connects the threads of action with asides of lis own, has a prescription for defeating he Communists and rebuilding Greece: "To make the left stop increasing, you must throw some weight against the right...
...read The Crack in the Column as a political guidebook; it is enough that it skillfully portrays the tragedy of a nation, and offers a few memorably sketched figures in the foreground. It is not a simple story, but it is a good one. Greece has deeply affected George Weller-as he says of one of his characters, it has unfitted him for simplicity...