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...solving the world's problems and removing international discord war is a delusion and a lie. We know that no matter how much a nation may desire to hold itself aloof and to keep apart from the struggle it cannot escape war's terrible effects." Hilaire Belloc, British historian: "The world gained by the Great War a demonstration in practice that the atheist doctrine and tradition of which Prussia had been the increasingly successful exponent for 150 years would ultimately prove weaker than the culture of Christendom." John Maynard Keynes, famed British economist: "I don't know...
...Belloc Is as Irritating as Possible
...Book. For quite a long time gentlemen have been attempting to save the human race from itself by pointing out our common brotherhood. It has remained for Mr. Hilaire Belloc to seek the same end by emphasizing our differences. Not long ago Mr. Belloc was solving what he considers to be the Jewish problem by classifying the Jews as a distinct nation not to be confused with ordinary people. In The Contrast, he is proposing to solve in a similar manner what he has discovered to be the American problem. In the interest of peace, harmony and the comity...
...Significance. Mr. Belloc is closer to France than he is to the English. The book is accurately calculated to weaken the Anglo-American association. This may be the way to keep the peace. Or it may not. The book is an absorbing picture of America in the eyes of an acute European...
...significance of Mr. Belloc's estimate depends some-what upon the significance of Mr. Belloc, and that is a matter of opinion...