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...areas that have always been lifesustaining, life-preserving, life-forwarding. One is the family. The other is the land. And the third is the self. . . . Without a revamping of our ideas and practices in these areas . . . our efforts to preserve a civilized social order will be feeble and hollow. . . ." How this revamping is to be accomplished, practically under fire, is left somewhat vague, all the more so because Author Mumford. by habit, intention and idiom, addresses his exhortation to the one group in the U. S. which is least capable of acting on it-the liberal intellectuals...
...without arms, men without legs, men with hollow, tubercular chests walk the streets of Madrid, Burgos, Barcelona. So do hollow-eyed women in mourning and women who look out of blank, uncomprehending eyes. Symbolic of Spain's people is the bronze statue of King Carlos in Toledo, which lies against its base with legs amputated by a shell, one arm gone and a gash from a shell fragment in its navel. Franco has decreed that the Alcazar be left unrestored, as a monument to "the fury of the Rojos...
...Lord Halifax broadcast Britain's answer to the world, his voice was deep, full of religious feeling, hollow and lonely as an empty church. It was not a voice to inspire fury, but it did instill hope, a sense of justice, a calmness of conscience. Said...
Actually, a plea for spiritual and moral unity in the face of a national crisis is hollow and meaningless while the country's political and intellectual leaders are driving a wedge of fear into the hearts of the American people. For many loyal Americans fear that under the guise of preparedness they will be catapulted into a futile and devasting foreign war while our own imperfect democracy crashes in ruins about them...
...Hollow-cheeked old Gustav V rode out to Stockholm's stadium, warned 30,000 holiday-making Swedes: "The danger is not past. ... I therefore exhort you not to relax." >Bitter, broken and bewildered, Leopold III, King of the Belgians, brooded in his castle at Laeken, on Brussels' edge. Execrated by his allies, who were not to be placated by the restrained comments of the British Prime Minister, repudiated by his own Government, by his overseas empire, by approximately one-third of his eight million people (fled to France), by nearly every important personage of his country, Leopold...