Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full dress. Reason for the celebration: dedication of what Baltimore believed to be the "only double equestrian statue in the world"-a bronze work depicting the parting of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson on the eve of the Battle of Chancellorsville. In the dedicatory oration Douglas Southall Freeman, author of Lee's Lieutenants, called them the "greatest American combat team...
...Single Family." In 1922, Aristide Briand, greatest of France's 20th that it Century must "unite"- internationalists, not only warned "to prosper" but "to live." This was only four years after the "war to end war." In 1871, when France was crumbling under Prussian force, the author of Les Miserables spoke up. Said Victor Hugo: "I will demolish my fortresses. You will demolish yours. My vengeance, it is fraternity. No more frontiers, the Rhine for all! Let us be the same Republic! Let us have the United States of Europe, let us have Continental federation, let us have European...
...shortest and best of the essays is by Roman Catholic Author Edward Ingram Watkin. The traditional Catholic criteria for determining when and whether a war is "just," says he, are meaningless under modern conditions. Only a nation's top leaders could possibly know enough of the facts to decide. But "the justice of the cause is not the sole criterion of justifiable war .'.. There is another test whose application is henceforth simple and plain: even a just war must not be waged by immoral means. Under modern conditions, however, war can be waged only by such aerial...
...Independent Citizens' Committee, he bolted his party in 1944 to be national chairman of the Independent Republicans for Roosevelt. He recently quit the Progressive Citizens of America when it went for Wallace. His service on the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine turned him into an author (Behind the Silken Curtain); he is now an ardent advocate of partition. In moving to Manhattan, he will give up, among other things, the presidency of two radio stations owned by Ted and Dorothy Thackrey, owners of the New York Post...
Even when the characters think back upon their own lives, or when the author condenses their experience in brief little biographies, the content of their doing is still war-war on the streets and at the parties, the wisecracks whining like rifle shots, the love affairs like ambushes...