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...Volume II the Webbs answer the question: Where is Russia's system heading? To those who still shudder over the barbarity with which the kulaks were "liquidated," and the secret terror of the Cheka, they reply that the facts cannot be blinked ("There is, we fear, no reason to doubt the reality of the 'Red Terror' any more than that of the 'White Terror' "), but that such grisly facts are a temporary phenomenon. They point out that Russia's social, political and religious revolutions were all concentrated in one swoop, whereas in England...
After the recent Japanese assassinations, the military cinched their saddle more firmly on the Japanese war-horse and left the world shivering with a premonitory war chill. Now the shaven Russian growls deeply in his throat, and the chill becomes a shudder. Like angry school-boys one nation pushes the other, and the shove is returned with somewhat more fervour, until the battle, which in the end will leave them both prostrate, becomes wholly inevitable...
Shirley is here and there is nothing to do about it but we can complain about the treatment given to the rest of the cast. John Boles can sing but we were offered the pipings of the cute one instead and even the worst of the history debunkers would shudder at the insipid portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. It is about time that petty actors stopped trying to take the part of the world's greatest...
...Montherlant writes with brilliant self-control, never smirks, nudges or winks. Result is a portrait that is both bitingly just and hilariously sympathetic. He is not so objective with some of the minor characters, notably Mile de Bauret, a type of modern young woman that he admits makes him shudder: "Mile de Bauret had a taste for letters and the arts, but her literary education only commenced with the end of the 19th Century. Which is to say it amounted to nothing. She looked at the world and explained it in terms of the pet theories of a few fashionable...
After the most frantic sleuthing on the part of the victim whose mail was so grossly polluted, the identity of the crude practical joker was brought to light. There will be some sort of retaliation; of that there is no doubt, but the inmates of the entry shudder to think in what form it will appear...