Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Milne further objects to the lopsided fate that lets his plays (Mr. Pim Passes By, etc.), novels and essays (which he prefers) be forgotten and has made children's classics of When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh. Sick & tired of his short-pants reputation, he sticks out his tongue at the tots and says rudely: "I am not inordinately fond of or interested in children; their appeal to me is a physical appeal such as the young of other animals make...
...Mr. Greene, to put the matter unoriginally, is an idealist in this question of war. He accepts the protestations of France and Britain that they are waging a crusade in complete good faith. He is convinced that this is essentially--nay entirely--a conflict between naked power and reason in international affairs, between the suppression of human rights and liberties and the glorification of the same...
...hardly necessary to point out that very many observers would label this view naive to say the least. They would hear in the booming guns along the Saar merely the clash of rival imperialisms. And they would see in Mr. Chamberlain's devious line of march from appeasement to war merely a crass game of power politics gone beyond his control. But Mr. Greene might be left to his charitable thoughts were it not for their alarming implications. For if they are true, is it not imperative that America once more go to war for the defense of human liberties...
...Mr. Greene will not say this outright. America need not join the fight until "issues vitally affecting our national interests" are at stake. But here Mr. Greene's interpretation of what these issues are leaves America very little choice. For it is his opinion that a "final victory of German force over Britain and France has implications impossible to reconcile with the future peace and security of our own country." Here, then, is the vital issue...
...brief, the United States must fight if there is any chance of an Allied defeat. Under no circumstances must Hitler win. Mr. Greene perhaps envisages a Nazi-dictated peace which would reduce the Allies to vassal states, which would impose upon them the Fascist ideology, which would force the acceptance of gangsterism as the usual method of international negotiation. Fascism and the use of might would sweep over the world like the Black Death; and in such a world, a free and democratic America could not survive...