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...Personal History" should be read by anyone desiring an objective picture of the post-war decade, with its cant, its hypocrisy, its lack of any workable standard, its deification of Mammon, and its half-hearted efforts to achieve peace. The picture is doubly effective when drawn with Mr. Sheean's clarity, and thrown into bold relief by his painstaking and often courageous search for truth...
...impossible that such a man as Dr. Dewey should not have understood so simple a fact. Perhaps the solution lies in his pragmatism. An idea is true if it works. This sort of cant with its innuendo against the rich certainly works in most audiences in the country. It is the stuff of demagoguery. For that reason Dr. Dewey can get away with a lot of loose thinking and still be consistent to his philosophy. But this very fact is what makes intelligent and stupid alike have less faith in the power of the human mind. If the greatest philosopher...
...there is less bile in All Men Are Enemies, if it seems a bit less malicious than the previous Aldington novels, it is because it is longer (574 pp.), less direct, padded. Author Aldington is finding it increasingly difficult to pick off the remaining bowling pins of pre-War cant and hypocrisy, having already sent the bulk of them crashing oft the alley...
...leader of a political party professedly reactionary and illiberal, has discovered that the most omnipotent of dictators finds his action circumscribed by the enlightenment of a modern world. His Jewish policy fortified by the pragmatic sanction of a German majority, brought down upon his head an incredible volume of cant, hysterically intoned and accompanied by dark threats of boycott and ostracism. And Mr. Hitler, who is not unaware of the position of minorities in those countries which now scorn him most openly, must be pardoned if he displays a cynical unwillingness to beat his breast and chant "Peccavi...
...sorry that i cant write english good but i hope that you have read my other leter. i told you that i wanted money to go away from the usa my home is across the ocean and i must have (50,000) fifty thousand or i will get your baby, dont that we can get it for we can and will if it takes years, i am sorry that you paid your money to the rong man when i now that he did not get your baby and if you not published it your baby would have ben with...