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...Armistice is a collection of essays written by England's dauntlessly civilized Chesterton between the middle '20s and his death in 1936. His point of view is consistent, two of his premises are peculiarly interesting: 1) that the Allies fought World War I in a cause that was too good for them, and for which Hitler would compel them to fight again-a cause of which they were not fully aware: to preserve Western Christendom from destruction by Prussia, the comparatively new, barbaric overlord of an otherwise civilized Germany; 2) that Christian Poland was the great bulwark...
...hear him talk." In 1938, in a speech in Kansas City, he denounced fixed charges in favor of equity dividends. To make his point he invoked the following authorities: Aristotle, Lactantius, St. Luke, St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, St. Ambrose, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Calvin, Cotton Mather, Andrew D. White, Chesterton, Will Rogers. Fond of parties, he holds his cigaret between his teeth, dominates the room with talk. Regularly he falls asleep at 10 p.m., wakes at 11:30, talking. A lover of word games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some...
...kept mum as a Cornish oyster, but Mrs. Masefield admitted: "My husband has been approached on the subject, and the quotation in his opinion is the work of a modern poet writing in Biblical style. From the style he thought it might possibly be written by G. K. Chesterton. He went to considerable trouble to try to trace the words, but without success." Sir Edward Denison Ross, the eminent British expert on Oriental literature, guessed that the words must come from an unpublished work, because "they are so good" that if they had been published the author would certainly...
...might have been a Chesterton for America, as he hoped a certain literary colleague of his would one day be its Belloc, was given only one brief hour in the vineyard of the Church. . . . Thus ends the biography of a soul as far as this world is concerned. To but few men of his profession has come the thrill of living as he has lived...
...When G.. K. Chesterton first saw the blazing advertising signs along the Great White Way, he commented: "What a wonderful sight for a person who cannot read...