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...hope is stirring. Friends of freedom in other lands have found a new way to reach you. They know that you also want freedom. Millions of free men and women have joined together and are sending you this message of friendship over the winds of freedom . . . There is no dungeon deep enough to hide truth, no wall high enough to keep out the message of freedom. Tyranny cannot control the winds, cannot enslave your hearts. Freedom will rise again...
Escape from a Dungeon. World Within World is interesting as an eyewitness appraisal of the high place that has been granted to guilt by intellectuals of the last decades. But its main lesson is that nothing can be more misleading than a "truthful" book written by an author to whom confession and humiliation are the only verities worth stressing. No one would guess from World Within World that Spender has been capable of writing many admirable poems, or that he has won a small but probably permanent place in the literary history of his generation...
Here & there the gloom is pierced by a lively sense of humor that bursts out like a prisoner escaping from a dungeon; occasionally there is evidence of Spender's acute eyes & ears, e.g., his description of antiaircraft fire as "like immense sheets of lead falling slowly through the sky, rattling and uncreasing as they fell." Then the pea-soup fog of shame descends again, and Poet Spender plods sadly on, carrying his backbone like a broken reed...
...Lowest Dungeon. When the prayer was done, Tom gathered two witnesses, took them over to notify the bailiff, then bicycled along to file due notice of clameur with the greffe (clerk of court) and affix two five-shilling stamps. "Nothing more will be done," he told his family confidently that night at dinner, "until the case is decided in court...
...days, when crying Haro was more frequent (Tom's is only the eighth clameur to be raised since 1900), the penalty for losing a case was severe: 24 hours' confinement in the lowest dungeon of 14th Century Castle Cornet. The penalty nowadays is only a small fine. Twenty years ago, Alfred Machon was fined one shilling for a false clameur (TIME, March 3,1930). As Tom's case rested last week, however, the gloomier greybeards of Guernsey noted with interest that workmen were busy restoring the old castle's long-neglected dungeon...