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...might also include the period from 1927 (when Anglo-Soviet relations were broken off by the Baldwin Government in which Mr. Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer) up to last year, when the second MacDonald Government extended British recognition to Moscow for the second time. No apologist but a slasher, a thruster, Mr. Churchill wrote of the Soviet State in terms which, if accurate, would ipso facto justify attempts to destroy it by any means: "It is unnatural. It is a monster that has been born into our modern world. A cold reptilian blood flows in its veins. It possesses...
Roundly though Paris papers have recently flayed the French Ambassador to Washington, M. Paul Claudel, for buying a Packard, for boasting of its prowess, for being generally an apologist for Les Americains, last week he was at it again...
...defensive apologist, Author Lawrence moves briskly to attack settled notions. Says he: "Boccaccio at his hottest seems to me less pornographic than Pamela or Clarissa Harlowe or even Jane Eyre, or a host of modern books or films which pass uncensored. At the same time Wagner's Tristan and Isolde seems to me very near to pornography, and so, even, do some quite popular Christian hymns." Author Lawrence thinks the present attitude to pornography is pornographical, blames much of it on "the last century, the eunuch century, the century of the mealy-mouthed lie, the century that has tried...
...Author. Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis (not to be confused with Wyndham Lewis, author of Time and Western Man) is a scholarly, lively, devout, belligerent Roman Catholic, living in France. In company with his compatriots Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Montague Summers, his Catholicism makes him an apologist for the Middle Ages, a contemner of his own. Author D. B. Wyndham Lewis has also written François Villon...
...your publication is our leading apologist for Al Smith...