Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service k EW YORK J B priestly and ul the U S A got along nicely together NI gether until his play time and the A lit Fon conwayy Con ways 11 began to make trouble W in 1937 in f voice of england this play mr awakes s takes jab at our priestly went metaphysical ejk and conjured atme lime into fourth dimensional diment ional unreality X e aliby perhaps because they had long 0 ng felt felt the urgency and reality of a newspaper deadline the american dramatic critics quite get tit H and scored the play as just soso so so 4 and maybe not even that mr priestly priestly estly said they were rude and boorish about it and challenged not conly il only their time sense but their sense bof propriety and their fitness for otheir their jobs 1 that must have gone deeply under mr bir Priest lys skin since since as the voice of england at a moment when time at any rate 1 seems to be real he be takes a short wave short jab at radio i commentators in this country he thinks that people who are not prepared to fight anything anywhere should mind their manners and not belittle others who can and will fight while that may not necessarily make time and the conwayy Con ways a good play it reveals mr priestly and no doubt england as ready to meet all comers and that seems all to the good perhaps when television comes well be saying smile when you yon say that pardner athis this reporter having once talked with mr priestly can testify that he has a nice smile while his estimate of our present or potential belligerency may have been somewhat tactless in his novels and magazine articles he has shown much more sound discernment of the american scene than the writings of certain other visiting brit ons who kiss and run and there after engage in long distance smearing he at any rate said his say while he was here ur to Iri priestly estly 46 years old took honors in in literature and history at f cambridge went to london from his F native yorkshire and found the lit ferary arary ladder just an escalator his novel I 1 the good companions was his first big success this reader thought there was deep insight m his midnight in the desert written after his stay in arizona with his family in his routine short wave address he stresses the common cultural ties of england and america without being oily about it and has seemed to this hearer an effective special pleader but he does seem to look on our critics as alien parachute jumpers or even something less admirable 0 THE PHE professor who pieces out the dinosaur from a single bone has a 9 distinct advantage over interpreters ers of world events nobody can war Wr minister dispute this erser writer him rears hears a feather has just fin on his shoulder dished ed reading e a magazine article of 1934 4 about gen eiki i 1 tojo 0 of japan in which it is made clear that he is typical of the head strong rong army caste sure to destroy 4 itself and that quickly i but here today is general tolo tojo amed barned war minister in the new army cabinet which seems bent on destroying ying anybody or anything rather than itself in the short view at least east the dinosaurs of totalitarian elsm are subject to laboratory observation but only in the short view close to a deadline t little ale is known about general tojo in this country but avail able data indicate that his rise rise to power will not be reassuring to those who look for peaceful pleasant solutions of world di dis cord his betes noir are the U S A and russia like e pericles of greece he advanced ced himself by kicking up war v ares fes he agrees rees with the doc f tr it e of abdou adou 0 hitler atler expounded in mem ein kampf a f that all alliances 1 t 0 ph us vers overs and that the only augh e ug and durable ura ae nation is the one at stan ands s alone he is smart nard ar boiled oile resourceful and con te p ous of theories sentiments kana and negotiations he is of an unreconstructed feudal family and has youth been in the army since his early |