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...sombre moments I seem to see the stage being set for that servile state whose coming to pass [Hilaire] Belloc prophesied even before the 1914-18 war-key figures posted and ... a whole conditioning process taking place while one looks helplessly on ... More effectively than anything else, [the BBC monopoly] enables those set in authority to impose on the rest of us a pattern of thought and of feeling ... I must confess that escape, even into the arms of J. Fred Muggs, is a delectable prospect...
English Catholic writers today are in strong reaction from the lusty Chesterton and Belloc school, and the middling, manly, romantic strain in English journalism and literature was already in decline when Chesterton died in 1936. Belloc's partisanship turned to anger: "Civilization in England is going to the dogs because we allow five sorts of people to do what they like with us: Jews, Socialists, eugenists, Protestants and teetotalers. The Jews want our money, the Socialists want our land, the eugenists want our women, the teetotalers want our beer, and the Protestants don't know what they want. Four devils...
...dangerous coasts of Great Britain in a good deal of foul weather, until he was an old man. His wife, an American, had died in 1914; his eldest son Louis was killed in World War I. When his youngest son, Peter, lost his life in World War II, Belloc gave up letters. He was already an old man. He lived on in his Sussex farmhouse, a short, stout figure, red of face, wearing a collar several times too large for him, a black hat on his round head. People said he looked like a typical John Bull. There last week...
...vast number of books he wrote?153 in all?that Hilaire Belloc would be remembered, but for the happy gift of rhyme in the best of them...
Died. Hilaire Belloc. 82, Edwardian man of letters; in Guildford, England (see FOREIGN NEWS...