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...devout Catholic. He is also a devout esthete and a devout snob. This week, in LIFE, he wrote an open letter to U.S. readers of his best-selling Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7), which showed that these three traits are inseparable parts of his fastidious revulsion from the godless, uncivilized age in which he finds himself. He also revealed that-as some critics of Brideshead had sug-rested-his literary motivation is basically religious...
...Godless Novelists. " 'When can we expect another Brideshead Revisited?' Dear ladies, never. ... I have already shaken off one of the American critics, Mr. Edmund Wilson, who once professed a generous interest in me. He was outraged (quite legitimately by his standards) at finding God introduced into my story. I believe that you can only leave God out by making your characters pure abstractions...
...Atlantic City and San Francisco were eager and able to furnish the space. So was Boston. But there UNO ran into another problem-Russia's Delegate Georgii F. Saksin had blackballed Massachusetts as no fit place for UNO after Superior Court Judge John Swift's recent blast: "Godless Russia has torn the Atlantic Charter to tatters and enslaved millions of our fellow Catholics...
...younger son was killed in action. He is buried in a barren cemetery of crushed rock near a smelly city in a desolate region populated by filthy, godless people. He is the father of a son born after his death. If my son's body is brought back it will be placed in a beautiful plot to be visited as a shrine...
...anti-Nazi Barth prophesied that after Hitler had finished with the German church, "efforts to recapture the [religious] interest of the new godless Germany will have to be those of a missionary." Last Fall, Churchman Barth went back to Germany to see for himself. He set out with misgivings, returned somewhat reassured to announce his conclusions before a jampacked audience in Zurich...