Word: paassen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doorbells and making up the beds, sees everybody, finds out every thing, at last knows more about what is going on in the house than the masters themselves. Other books by correspond ents: The Men Around Churchill ($3) by René Kraus; That Day Alone ($3.75 ) by Pierre van Paassen...
...readers who are proof against van Paassen's great lay sermons, his descriptions of collapsing France may well be the most exciting parts of his book. Van Paassen wandered in wartime Paris like a man in a city of tombs. He watched the mobile guards leave for the front: "Not a smile . . . not once a cheer." "C'est bien morne," said van Paassen aloud. "Non, monsieur" a Frenchman corrected him, "it is sinister...
...What panic?" asked van Paassen...
...judgment you mean Hitler?" asked van Paassen...
Pierre van Paassen understands that the dilemma of pur time, which enabled the Nazis to take power, which still keeps the democracies from fully effective action, is caused by the ideological bankruptcy of the right no more and no less than by the moral bankruptcy of the left. He seeks to by-pass this dilemma by an appeal to conscience, and the force of his fervors lies in part in this simplification. For as a social seer he is really only asking a question. It is as old as Adam and still unanswerable: "Where is thy brother Abel...