Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he made his confession, Van Meegeren was in jail awaiting trial as a collaborator. He is still there, and the full details of his sensational story are still to be checked. One official of the Rotterdam Museum has a theory of his own: Van Meegeren may be a muddy...
Now Critic Edmund Wilson has made a book of his friend's glittering, tragic life. It is in part a collection of essays, poems and letters written about Fitzgerald by his admirers (including Poets T. S. Eliot and John Peale Bishop, Critic Paul Rosenfeld, Novelist Wescott, John Dos Passos...
This confession appeared last week in the foreword to a slim volume titled The American Revolution and Its Influence on World History, published by the Chicago Tribune at $1. Its author: the Tribune's xenophobic editor & publisher, Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick, Groton '99, Yale '03.
The evidence on the atrocities is convincing; so is the general culpability of the accused, confessing men. But U.S. spectators will be left wondering about Russian court procedure. (As Arthur Koestler observes in his new book of essays-see BOOKS: ". . . that those particular Germans committed those particular crimes was proved...
"There is no doubt of his greatness. He had already become by the common confession of both those who always agreed with him and those often disagreed, one of the greatest presidents we have over had, one of the greatest citizens among our many generations, perhaps the greatest single world...