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• Published date: 01 July 1955
• Author: J. Warren Madden
• DOI: 10.1177/000271625530000157
• Date: 01 July 1955
• Subject Matter: Articles

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she is one of the really great reporters of
cluded is Miss West’s classic treatment of
the twentieth century. This extraordinarily
the mighty drama of the Nuremberg trials
gifted, brilliant, and cultivated English
of 1946 with their symbolic meaning for
woman has helped raise the profession of
our time.
There are also two essays con-
journalism to an art; in her hands report-
cerning the state of affairs in Germany in
ing becomes literature. She works like a
1949 and 1954-effects of the Allied oc-
scientist, patiently amassing the particu-
cupation, the amazing industrial revival,
larities and facts, and, at the same time,
and the nature of Soviet totalitarianism.
possesses the rare ability to step back from
In these reports the author effectively de-
her subject and regard it in perspective.
molishes the arguments of revisionist his-
The result is first-rate reading for lovers
torians that the Germans really understand
of good writing, as well as magnificent,
Anglo-Saxon ideas of justice and parlia-
three-dimensional raw material for the his-
mentarianism.
The titles: &dquo;Greenhouse
torian.
with Cyclamens, I, II, and III&dquo; refer to a
A Train of Powder consists of six repor-
theme skilfully expressed again and again
torial essays, of which three concern Ger-
as in a symphony. In a greenhouse at
many since 1946.
&dquo;Opera in Greenville&dquo;
Nuremberg, Miss West observed a one-
describes the trial of thirty-one men (of
legged man who grew enormous cyclamens
whom twenty-eight were taxi drivers) in
with the help of a child of twelve. &dquo;He
Greenville, S. C. for the brutal lynching of
terrified because his absorption in industry
Willie Earle, a 24-year-old Negro who had
left a vacuum in his mind which sooner or
killed a cab driver. The final two essays
later would be filled&dquo; (p. 248). To the au-
recount two notable British trials: that of
thor this symbol of beaver-like activity de-
Brian Donald Hume, an English &dquo;spiv&dquo;
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