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Fortunately, these reviewers do not represent our American culture, in which belief in God is a tremendously vital factor. Otherwise there would be terrifying truth in the meaningless gaucherie ("If Chambers is right in believing the major bulwark against Stalin to be faith in God, then it is time for men of conviction and courage to take to the hills") with which one reviewer writes off the noblest act of courage our generation is likely...
...Irving Howe, the Nation: "If Chambers is right in believing the major bulwark against Stalin to be faith in God, then it is time for men of conviction and courage to take to the hills...
...State Department invited Figl because Austria is the U.S. bulwark in middle Europe and a thorn in Russia's side: in the East-West rivalry, the Germans may bargain and boggle, but Figl's Austrians are with the West in their hearts. Of the 7,000,000 population, some 80% support the stoutly anti-Communist Figl's peasant-business-socialist coalition-probably the greatest popular support of any regime in Europe. The Communists at the end of the war had 5% of the vote; their strength has not increased...
Even more important in British eyes is the need to build a strong bulwark of British power and civilization in Central Africa. Afrikaners are flocking into the Rhodesias at the rate of 2,000 a month; many of them are anti-British and determined to bring the Rhodesias into the Union of South Africa. Warned Laborite Jim Griffiths, Lyttelton's predecessor as Colonial Secretary (see above): "Unless there is created and sustained in these three territories a stronger political association looking to [Britain] for its inspiration . . . other principles and other traditions might prevail . . . which come from the Union...
...Bryan-sponsored tax became law in August 1894. The Supreme Court, reversing "a century of error," quickly found it unconstitutional. The New York Sun fairly panted with relief: "The wave of socialistic revolution . . . breaks at the foot of the ultimate bulwark ... of our liberties. Five to four the court stands like a rock...