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...echo from afar...
...collaborate on troubles. ... It is no wonder if we today raise the banner of anti-Bolshevism!" After uttering such warlike bombast, cautious Benito Mussolini always leaves open a diplomatic avenue running in the opposite direction. "Blackshirts!" he roared. "Your marching orders are: . . . Peace with all, with those near and afar! ARMED PEACE!!" As one who considers that he has "un-Wopped the Wops," Il Duce sees no reason why it should be impossible for a pro-Fascist league of European States to "un-Bolshevize the Bolsheviks...
...novel, Doremus Jessup was a tough-fibred fighter for the Liberal cause. In the play, he is a pitiable dodderer who fails to realize what is happening until his son-in-law is murdered. It is his spinster friend, Lorinda Pike, who spots the Corpo invasion from afar. Jessup's love affair with her is played down to the point where it might pass as platonic. Much more faithful to the original are the characters of Effingham Swan, hairy-handed but carefully-manicured Corpo commander who says, "Just take the bastard out and shoot him, will...
...contains several poems on the War, including one of "dreams of a field afar," in which the poet thinks of his comrades in their graves while he is alive. But they, when I forgot and ran, Remembered and remain. It contains Housman's For My Funeral, which seems likely to endure as long as any of his work, and an epitaph for dead soldiers...
FINDING an intense power in a style that is peculiarly his own, Gordon Friesen, a new writer, has unfolded a novel of importance in Flamethrowers. It is a story of the burgeoning middle west, its good earth, the people who have come from afar to find heaven in its wheatfields . . . and the inevitable disillusionment that the uneducated mystic must find in America...