Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Hitler, in June 1940, created the fiction of an Unoccupied France and headed off French resistance from North Africa, one-third of Africa was at best neutralized, at worst pulled into the Axis orbit. The rest was saved for the United Nations: France's middle African colonies (Chad, Cameroun, Gabon), the rich Belgian Congo, onetime Italian East Africa. From Cape-Town to Cairo and west to Sierra Leone, Africa was preserved for Allied communications...
David Ormsbee is a new name in U.S. fiction, but he is not. As Henri Weiner and Paul Haggard he has written detective stories. As Stephen Longstreet he has written an amusing travelogue (Last Man Around the World, TIME, Sept...
...Even the celluloid film is wrong. The silky panchromatic light which properly drenches a grade-A romance softens the strongest images of courage or death into a comfortable fiction...
...Studebaker, who last week reported on his official ten-week tour of British schools. He brought news that Britain had decided to step up its imports of information about the U.S., and that Britain's National Exchange Library had raised $100,000 to buy U.S. history and fiction books for muddled British pupils...
Writing of Virginia Woolf's non-fiction (The Common Reader, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas), Critic Daiches suggests that she might have made a good political pamphleteer. It seems rather like gelding the lily. Yet Mrs. Woolf is memorable for clarity as well as iridescence. A devoted artist, she was no political revolutionist, but she had her veins of wrath. She wrote: "We may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated in that intellectual freedom of which...