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...Power Elite is written in a kind of sociological mumbo jumbo that should discourage all but other sociologists. It is dull, repetitious, and gives equal weight to both sound and spurious evidence. Its underlying tone is one of resentment, and because it offers no suggestion as to how the bogeymen in Mills's belfry may be exorcised, it is intellectually irresponsible. Still it ought to be read, if only for its half truths. It will surely be read with great glee by anti-Americans everywhere. But the average U.S. reader is apt to emerge from this nightmare-shored...
...Said Pakistan's Abbas Khaleeli: ". . . We are today free and independent nations, capable of looking after ourselves . . . We have accepted foreign aid on conditions and terms that have been freely negotiated and are fully to our advantage . . . We of Asia have come of age and . . . bogeymen do not frighten us so easily...
...years since have made Mrs. Roosevelt (to the U.S. delegation she is simply "Mrs. R.") a sagacious and useful member in U.N. struggles. When she feels called upon to chide the Russians, she never treats them as baleful bogeymen but simply as naughty-and rather ignorant-boys. She does not hide her amusement at the fact that the most exalted Soviet official dares not speak privately with a Westerner without another Russian beside him to eavesdrop...
Russia and Communism were getting to be known quantities instead of bogeymen. Edward Crankshaw's Cracks in the Kremlin Wall expressed one expert's judgment that Russia is feebler than supposed. Other careful books exposed Communism in practice. Margarete Buber (Under Two Dictators), Elinor Lipper (Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps), Zbigniew Stypulkowski (Invitation to Moscow) and Gustav Herling (^4 World Apart) were all graduates of Soviet prisons, and wrote of their experiences with skill. The reissue of French Traveler Astolphe de Custine's book of a century ago, Journey for Our Time, reminded moderns that, then...
Paul Blanshard has two bogeymen of almost equal fearsomeness: one dwells in the Kremlin, the other in the Vatican. It is hard to say which one makes his hackles rise higher, but each time he claws at Stalin he manages to scratch the Pope. His 1949 bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (168,000 copies) painted a terrifying picture of a totalitarian church at war with U.S. democracy. His new one is Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power. It enlarges on and reiterates his earlier theme, but something new is added: the Kremlin and the Vatican are really quarreling brothers under...