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...Chicago he hit out again: . . . shame of the New Deal . . . shameless corruption behind the smiling visage . . . crimes of intimidation and coercion . . . larceny, extortion, vicious practices . . . lowest form of political life . . . vested interest in human misery...
...prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur is gone, Ouseley, grandeur is gone . . .") and a sufficient hint that Ouseley represents Gogarty himself...
...With the One Coin for Fee two aging women, girlhood friends, meet after many years as 1938's New England hurricane blows up. One is at the end of a sexually avid and shameless career; the other is a spinster who jealously despises her. They die in the hurricane, reconciled...
According to a recent German official broadcast, "British atrocities" during the Boer War some 40 years ago included mixing powdered glass in the food of Boer children penned in British prison camps. Last week His Majesty's Government cited "this shameless propaganda, which is wholly without foundation" as its reason for suddenly rebutting with much hotter and much fresher atrocity charges. Off official London presses rolled another White Paper, entitled Papers Concerning the Treatment of German Nationals in Germany, 1938-1939. It was filled with details of torture and sadism in contemporary Nazi prison camps...
...report was a shameless, frivolous trick of the British Ministry of lies and the British Secret Service," cracked the Chancellery's angry denial, which all Berlin afternoon papers repeated under big black headlines. "It was intended only to plunge the peoples of the world into anxiety, as everyone will immediately realize, so that the campaign of lies of the English warmongers would find it easier to accomplish its dark plans." This plunged Germans into visible gloom, some weeping openly in the streets of Berlin. Thus in no uncertain fashion did the anti-Nazi Freedom Station show Adolf Hitler...