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...animals who hear the hunter coming toward the trap. In the U. S. two committees were trying to get them out. One was the Emergency Rescue Committee, which claims to have brought to the U. S. since last July some 50 writers-in-exile, including Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Konrad Heiden, Leonhard Frank. The other was the Exiled Writers Committee, a sprout of the leftist-controlled League of American Writers. The two committees seemed to be getting in each other's hair...
...World War I Intelligence Officer William Somerset Maugham (last heard of just before German entry into Paris, where he was working for the British Information Ministry); some 120 German and Austrian writers in France, most of them expatriated and sought by the Gestapo, including Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel. A five-day-old message from English Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, received by his daughter, described everything as normal in his French villa...
...went into self-imposed exile, but he never got out from under the shadow. On his travels he made friends with Stefan Zweig, Alfred Neumann, Franz Werfel, and wrote two first-class novels, Child of Our Time and The Age of the Fish. Last week the latter was published in English...
...Past medalists: Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, onetime High Commissioner for German Refugees James Grover McDonald, Executive Director Estelle Sternberger of World Peaceways, Novelist-Playwright Franz Werfel...
Brought out a week before the publication of the last volumes of Thomas Mann's story of Joseph, Hearken unto the Voice resembles it only in its underlying theme. Where Mann's novel is subtle and slow-paced, Werfel's is melodramatic and tempestuous. It may well be more popular than Mann's four-volume masterpiece. With most of its characters black & white sketches, Hearken unto the Voice rises to the heights of great literature only in the passages (which Author Werfel has lifted from the Old Testament) where the prophet thunders his denunciations...