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...condemning American support of reaction in Spain, Greece and China, it is not necessary to excuse Russian behaviour in Manchuria, intransigence in Germany and ruthlessness in the Balkans. If the choice has so often been between Communism and Fascism abroad it is because we have failed to support vital economic and social reforms and the democratic forces in these countries that would advance such reforms. My remarks were in support of an affirmative American foreign policy rather than the present negative program of "Stop Russia...
...Hodges, from whom one might well have expected at least one good performance, take up most of the twelve inches with slow lyrical and tender soloings on an undistinguished, though at least idiomatic, popular tune of several years back called "Gone With the Wind." Hodges is on his best behaviour, playing the type of music he likes best in the style in which he best likes to play it; and as for Don Carlos Byas, eh bien; some circles believe he never did as well before...
...Americans and Britons bought some 200,000 copies of these ironically instructive letters from an elderly devil in Hell to his callow young nephew on earth. But writers, as Dante and Milton knew, have usually felt more at home in Hell than in Heaven. Last week in Christian Behaviour (Macmillan; $1) Author Lewis succeeded in the much tougher task of making Heaven as readable as Hell...
Like his previous book, The Case for Christianity (Macmillan; $1), Christian Behaviour is a collection of Author Lewis' BBC talks. The Case for Christianity explained why he believes Christianity is true. Christian Behaviour explains what a Christian must do to make religion ring true in his life. Lewis' main point: morals are not like the schoolboy's definition of God-"The sort of person who is always snooping round to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it." Morals, says Lewis, "are directions for running the human machine...
There are no startling new truths in Christian Behaviour, no startling inferences from old truths. Its subject matter is not exclusively Christian. It is common to all religions. What Lewis contributes is a childlike simplicity (not to be confused with naivete) that is the essence of the Christian spirit, and which pierces all obscuring subterfuges of thought and language to fix and define the simple moral and religious points he is making. He also contributes a swift humor that humanizes what might otherwise be bald homilies...