Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WINDS OF FEAR-Hodding Coder -Farrar & Rinehart...
...Nominal Christians, they work on the farms of the Catholic priests who converted them, but frequently disappear on week-long hunting trips. Their big game is Brazilians, whose skulls they mash in the classic Chavante manner, in hope of laying the blame on their pagan neighbors. Brazilian frontiers men fear them more than they do the Chavantes, and wish that they had never been converted to Christianity...
Hodding Carter, 37-year-old co-publisher of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times, now serving as a major in the War Department, has not written his first novel simply about Negrophobes. The Winds of Fear is a study of a small Southern town in World War II - grimly united on the question of Hitler, feverishly disunited on the question of Negroes...
...They Lynch Up North. . . ." The Winds of Fear is better, as well as more timely, than most current best-selling novels. Its faults are the usual ones of a novel of its kind: in his worthy effort to be scrupulously just, Author Carter often sounds more like an honest broker than an imaginative novelist. Like most just men he sounds best when he lets go-as when Editor Mabry bellows: "They lynch up north, and a damn sight more people than we do. Only they call them race riots...
Business, says Ruml, affects everyone. Such ideals as freedom from want and fear, freedom of the individual to live as he chooses can be realized by business, through its instruments: high employment and productivity. But business itself must first learn a new concept of freedom. It must learn and conform to the controls for freedom-e.g., reasonable Government regulation-within which it must act. In the same manner, those who wield the power over business for Government must also learn the controls which, by giving business its greatest freedom, can enable...