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Passion for Order. In their "immoderate desire for security," Jaspers finds Germans as overresponsive as ever to instant recipes for political salvation. They continue to put too much trust in the wrong things: the rationalism of know-how, the promise of perfection through the conquest of technology. Above all, "with built-in subject mentality," he says, the Germans trust their government just because it is their government. They uncritically share its passion for order while it gives low priority to civil rights and tirelessly promotes laws to cover every possible emergency. They cannot bring themselves to the heresy of doubting...
...Yankee economic imperialism" in Guatemala, focusing-if sometimes too polemically -on the growth and power of the United Fruit Co. Last week Asturias was busy on his eighth and ninth novels, one biographical and the other a dreamlike fantasy set in 16th and 17th century Guatemala during the Spanish conquest...
...OTHER CONQUEST by John Julius Norwich. 355 pages. Harper...
Navy ships, branched into commercial cargo handling as Philippine exports began to rise. When World War II came, the Navy commandeered all the company's facilities. After the Japanese conquest of the island nation, all seemed lost for Lusteveco-until it received a handsome postwar windfall. In 1945, with the approval of General Douglas MacArthur, the company was given a treasure in surplus LSTs, cranes and trucks to replace its lost equipment...
...Normans are well remembered for 1066 and all that. But if the conquest of England is a triumphant chapter in the Norman chronicle, it is no more so than one written with blood and steel on another island at almost the same time. Historians have scanted the Normans' other conquest, and the world has all but forgotten it. This book by a British nobleman, the second Viscount Norwich,* should handsomely redeem both oversights...