Baron Nicholas Wrangel, aged father of famed General Baron Wrangel who still holds together a "White Russian" army in Jugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 27), has just published most illuminating, if somewhat bloodcurdling memoirs.* He proceeds from his childhood (circa 1855) when a neighboring Count Visapur went unrestrained although he used to decorate his garden with pedestals on which stood all day statues improvised out of living serfs, stripped and painted white. In that era, Baron Wrangel's Aunt Jeanne would say, if anyone asked her the time, "Thank God, I have never been compelled to...
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