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...First Legion presents a delicate subject nearly unique in the theatre, with intelligence, humor and moderation, despite its absolute acceptance of Catholic dogma. Manhattan critics?Protestant or Jewish or nothing?found it "too much exalted talk," "a sombre evening's repose." Later audiences were less supercilious and to them Mr. Lytell made curtain speeches voicing his faith that "there is a place on Broadway for such a play as The First Legion...
Serious critics dubbed the book a "glorified tip sheet." Chief objection was to the fact that Major Angas interpreted the whole New Deal in terms of the Roosevelt monetary policies. Young Banker James P. Warburg, while ripping the Major's theories and monetary dogma to shreds and pointing out how superficial (and sometimes inaccurate) was the Major's knowledge of New Deal history, nevertheless declared: "It is the sort of literature which, more than anything else, will contribute toward a repetition of the 1929 disaster and toward making the present effort at controlled inflation end in a wild...
...Scotland, is the easygoing, outwardly conventional, inwardly puzzled ruler of a domain. The Rev. Charles ("Wearie Willie") Murray, devout, pious, gentle, with definite leanings toward Rome, is constantly baffled by the problems confronting a pedagog in the English public school. While masters worry over problems of faith and dogma, of pedagogy and discipline, of finances and families, the boys concern themselves with cricket, standing, good form, smut and tormenting "Wearie Willie." Young Middleton falls in love with "Tired Tim's" blithe young daughter and after certain vicissitudes marches bravely off to war. Bill Sikes is expelled for torturing young...
...disposed of amid roars of ap proval when Keynoter Gericke cried : "Paragraph 24 is something for our Party itself to interpret ! . . . We will go further entirely in the Nazi spirit!" The way to un-Jew the Bible, a majority of Nazi speakers made plain, is to reject the dogma of sin and, from this, reject the concept of a Messiah dying for the sins of others. In a spirit of Nazi compromise it was agreed that "the saintly individuality of Christ is beyond question, but He was only a human being unrelated to God." Exactly what positive line...
...cites their professed hope that at some time in the middle distance--a hundred years hence perhaps--communism may become an achieved fact. Doctrinaire socialism of the Marxian type he did not find in operation. Indeed, with democracy, he thinks it dead the world over. The one live political dogma is Fascism...