Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From England, where denunciation had been loudest, now came a "defense" more destructive than any attack so far. Wrote Author Harold Nicolson, in whose "Long Barn" estate at the foot of the Kentish weald Lindbergh stayed during his English exile: "He emerged from that ordeal (the 1932 kidnap-murder of his son) with a loathing for publicity that was almost pathological. He identified the outrage to his private life first with the popular press and then . . . with freedom of speech and then, almost, with freedom. He began to loathe democracy, . . . His self-confidence thickened into arrogance and his convictions hardened...
London's Catholic Herald rounded up some wartime Catholic views. Eric Gill, scraggle-bearded author-artist who wears a monk's gown, urged a quick peace, arguing that the Allied war aims are: continuation of Versailles policies, contraceptive control of the German population, making the world safe for Big Business. Letitia Fairfield, sister of Novelist Rebecca West: "The Catholic press will cut no ice morally so long as they make persecutions of the church the test of right and wrong in international affairs." Author George Glasgow: "Stemming atheistic bolshevism and bringing Europe back to Almighty God will...
...such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens. Publishers adopted slogans like "Always carry your gas mask; always carry a book." The London Library resolved to stay open. Publisher Geoffrey Faber publicly suggested that writing a book was "the most valuable piece of national service which an author can render...
Francis Iles, who as Anthony Berkeley writes detective fiction, is also known to U. S. readers as the author of two much-admired psychological murder stories, Before the Fact and Malice Aforethought...
...although it almost turns into one, As for the Woman is the sinister tale of a vacation love-affair between an Oxford undergraduate and a doctor's wife. "There are few human relationships more complicated than a love affair between a young man and an older woman," says Author Iles, "and there are few more summarily dismissed by the world at large...