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Then the I.T.U. gave the six daily papers, the Tribune, Sun, Journal of Commerce, Times, Herald-American and News, an ultimatum: boost wages from $85.50 to $100, within the day. The publishers said no. Said I.T.U. President Woodruff Randolph: The only thing left was a "nice clean strike...
...WILD SWEET WITCH (234 pp.)- Philip Woodruff-Harcourt, Brace...
...Novelist Woodruff, whose real name is Philip Mason, worked as a civil servant in India for 20 years, ending up as Joint Secretary of the Defense Department from 1944 to this year. E. M. Forster's Passage to India (1924), a novel in which certain types of British officials were treated with an irony amounting to loathing, has evidently been on his mind. He writes, in his foreword: "Perhaps I have been lucky in the people I have known and the visitors who write books after a six months' stay have been unlucky." This mild slap...
Forster, a profound, canny and better novelist, might be rash ; it would be rasher had not Woodruff written a fairly good novel himself...
...Novelist Woodruff tries half-heartedly to get under the skins of his English characters, who are forever mooning over the little lanes and hedges of England but behaving with wise good cheer. The Wild Sweet Witch ends with Jodh Singh's death by violence in 1938. It is not violence brought on by his political beliefs. When he is framed by two of his enemies, he goes wild and kills them; then he dies fighting rather than surrender to the British commissioner. The "wild, sweet witch" of his visionary hopes-a free and happy India-has at least...