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FAITH FOR LIVING-Lewis Mumford-Harcourf, Brace...
Fear enters Lewis Mumford's door with the daily newspaper. The last radio report in the evening causes him a living nightmare which slips imperceptibly into the horrors of his sleep. These and other apocalyptic afflictions he describes this week in Faith for Living, 333 pages as hortatory as Isaiah, as alarming as The Book of Revelation. But by implying that every right-feeling man these days must awake with a shriek and a shiver in the dead of night to find himself surrounded by phantom parachutists, he somewhat alienates sympathy for his case...
...Lewis Mumford is an art critic, a specialist in architecture and city planning at a time when more cities are being destroyed than built. He has written authoritatively about these and other subjects. He is also a militant and vocal liberal, and has en joyed a long connection with The New Republic that ended last June in a hideous rupture (TIME, June 17, July 8). When Russia, the "Socialist Fatherland," began to exhibit openly all the symptoms of a flourishing fascism, Mumford denounced Communists. When German, Italian and Japanese Fascists began to burn the cities of Spain and China, Author...
...Frank and Mumford could not have resigned because of our "do-nothing" policy, because they demanded no action that The New Republic was not also demanding. They avoided recommending, for instance, that the U. S. declare war on Germany. Their 13,000 words of dissent were on general philosophical and intellectual grounds, carefully avoiding debate on concrete policy...
...Your grave omission was not pointing out that the position of contributing editor carries no salary, no duties, and no responsibility for editorial policy. In the past 13 years, Frank and Mumford have visited the office seldom, contributed little to our pages. We hope they will still visit us, shall gladly print their contributions when they write things we feel are worth printing...