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FOREVER FREEDOM-Josiah C. Wedgwood and Allan Nevins-Penguin Books...
This little book includes practically every important literary allusion that has ever been made to human freedom. These quotations, says Co-Editor Josiah Wedgwood (who last week was shushed by the British and sent home to Britain because he said unkind things about Isolationist Senator Wheeler), "furnish both sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian...
...eloquent foreword British Laborite (pottery-maker and single taxer) Wedgwood also gives some shrewd reasons why he and Columbia University's Allan Nevins thought such an anthology worth compiling: "Though all my Labour colleagues regard Socialism as merely a stage on the road to that economic freedom which is our common goal, yet dependence on the State ever grows. A new master replaces the old masters. The mountain top is obscured, and those who have no vision tend to become willing cogs in the new bureaucratic machine. This machine . . . becomes a god whom it is blasphemy to criticize...
...Senate gallery sent these words down to Burt Wheeler. Cried Senator Wheeler: ". . . There is not a drop of blood flowing through my veins except English, and my people came here from England something like 300 years ago. . . . Think of the gall . . . the insolence . . . . A man such as Wedgwood should be run out of the United States...