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COMBINED OPERATIONS: The Official Story of the Commandos-Macmillan...
...sharpest religio-psychological writer of the season is an elderly devil named Screwtape, whose letters of instruction have somehow fallen into the hands of C. S. Lewis, Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College. (Writes Mr. Lewis in the preface to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (Macmillan; $1.50): "I have no intention of ex plaining how. . . .") In a series of Chesterfieldian letters, written from the cozy depths of Hell, Screwtape advises his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on the best means of eternally damning the soul of his "patient." The "patient," a young Englishman who is never named, "backslides" into religion, is "rescued...
...next day to speak to the Alsace and Lorraine Society in Algiers, he knew that the words he had chosen the night before would be heard by the world. On the speaker's platform were turbaned Arab leaders and the U.S. and British Ministers, Robert Murphy and Harold Macmillan, instruments of pressure for the liberalization of the Giraud regime. Freshly barbered, bayonet-straight in a tan uniform with five stars twinkling on each sleeve, Giraud strode to the platform. Green-bereted members of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse swung bugles high and blasted a march tune in his honor...
Britain's Macmillan, despite his justifications of temporary expediency, neatly put the best of all arguments against appeasement when he said: "We must remember that this is the only part of France liberated for the moment and all the politics of France in the future will be conceived here...
SHAKESPEARE AND THE NATURE OF MAN - Theodore Spencer - Macmillan...