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...note, the dark note of Churchill's growing concern for the shape and fate of the postwar world, his fear of Russian appetite for territory and power. The word "tragedy" in the title refers to the split between Russia and the West-the breakup of the "Grand Alliance"—which Churchill says he foresaw long before the end of the conflict. "The advance of the Soviet armies into Central and Eastern Europe in the summer of 1944 made it urgent to come to a political arrangement with the Russians about those regions . . . Difficulties in Italy had already begun, owing...
...from Prague, there lived 1,200 human beings. Some worked in the orchards, gardens and fields which they owned; others were woodworkers and coal miners; still others walked 45 minutes every day to toil in the munitions plant at Kladno. Lidice had a churcht. Martin's—which was nearly five centuries old and to which the people of four nearby villages flocked on Sundays...
...book's major theme is the Wellsian life history (from zoosperm to zany) of Edward Albert ("Teddy") Tewler, who, for Author Wells, symbolizes the lower middle class in general, and the British lower middle class in particular. It is a classצr, more essentially, a state of being—which Herbert George Wells loathes (not without pity) with the aching contempt of familiarity. He springs from it. Wells feels the same aching contempt for 'Teddy" Tewler. But like all crusaders, he longs to redeem the thing he loathes. This novel is a fictional prelude to redemption. Its purpose...
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