Show Sf Y MARQUIS CHILDS y 1 I Battle of f Books Books' Develops Over Allies Allies' Aims in War I 1 V WASHINGTO Among WASHINGTON N Among other things the Republican congress intends to investigate is Elliott Roosevelt and his report report report re re- re- re port of what his father said and did at the series of conferences with Churchill and Stalin The report is c contained in Elliotts Elliott's book As He Saw It Republican suspicions have been and they mean to try to ferret out any secret secreta a agreements g r e e m men e n t s that President Roosevelt may have put over I in the course of his meetings with other leaders lenders Elliotts Elliott's book with its consistent criticism criticism criticism cism of or Churchill and praise of the Russians and Stalin has whetted those suspicions If some some Republicans have their var way the carnival of investigation investigation investigation will take in the whole course of A American merican foreign policy policy pol pol- pol icy ley with emphasis on secret archives and r restricted files Elliott Elliott El El- liott as witness will be a spectacular spectacular spec spec- exhibit Senator Owen Brewster of Maine seems to have havethe havethe havethe the fantastic notion that if he promotes enough investigations he will promote himself into the White House Superficial Book BookAs BookAs As He Saw It It is is a superficial superficial super super- and often book on the level of cocktail But there is no doubt that It reflects the mood of the late president in the last two or three years of his life In t the e last long talk that I had with him he spent a good deal of time on the evils and the dangers of trying trying trying try try- ing to revive colonialism and imperialism imperialism imperialism im im- im- im in the postwar world He was especially emphatic on the subject of Indo ChIna and the need to put that colony so 80 badly administered and nd so ruthlessly ruthlessly ruthlessly ruth ruth- lessly exploited under an international international international inter inter- national trusteeship He spoke in somewhat the same vein of the Netherlands East Enst Indies What Elliotts Elliott's book ignores is the fact that the colonial powers powers powers pow pow- ers are now recognizing that statehood for native peoples is essential The Dutch seemed for fora a a. time to be trying to the old colonial system in their rich far east province They have now reached what appears to be a satisfactory solution with the native independence leaders In India Moslems and Hindus are struggling toward statehood with the aid of the British Battle of Books Books' The Elliott Roosevelt book is is of course only one shot in what is fast becoming a battle of the books Before he ho died the late Harry Harry Harry Har Har- ry L. L Hopkins had begun to put together a book dealing with his part in the events leading up to the war a and d the war itself That book is being 1 Completed tit fig 1 Hopkins Hopkins' notes and let lettU Robert Sherwood the k Ii wright who was one ona of pL dent Roosevelt's t chief fa ati in the Writing speech m Former Formet- Secretary of the the-r ur try ury y Henry is la b SJ ing out 5 a n. lengthy dl di digest est cf f V official 1 diaries ti Louis Adamic Adam tc In Jn Dinne the White House has to story of a s sharp arp ex ch gei 1 t tween teen een the president arid and Minister Churchill over u the sues of war and peace Adamic book caused Chun to sue for libel But the real news in the 1 t tie of oC the books is to that Chui ill BI himself is preparing preparIng t limber Umber his heavy artillery j 1 cording to I latest t 1 e 8 t rena Churchill has dictated more u tJ words on his hint the war The first v tentatively set for publics public in April of ot 1947 If only because he it f. i t L n It 1 1 ter of the English langua g t will be a great boo book k y You be sure that it will be all Q Chui ChUl ill BI told with the gusto and high drama that he put into Ing those crowded years over since Roosevelt is dead Stalin is unlikely to write memoirs Churchill will be only one of ot the big three t to to his own person first-person story Iwin I 7 will win give him a definite edg the competition for the lau of history t f The truth is of course 1 t twe we are much too close to event to have real The memoirs and the histo hito are all even all even Churchill's raw materials material of ot history final judgment can come i from the historian of ot 50 01 of years hence who weighs weighs' complete record And tha something for the Republic to remember as they try to i F t the facts and the rumors aro arc to fit their own prejudices |