Word: westly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Almost all the guesses could be true (even that Stalin had unobtrusively died), for anything is possible in Russia. What the West wanted were the hard probabilities, and some of these, at least, soon emerged...
That, to the West, fighting for survival, is the most important point in an important new book. Paul McGuire's There's Freedom for the Brave (William Morrow Co., $4) is a powerful statement of the thesis that the West cannot defeat the evils of Communism without conquering the weakness and the evils in its own body & soul. The book has two parts and two aims. In the author's words, the first is to show the world "What's Up," the second, "What's to Do." Author McGuire is considerably more successful...
...from Another World. There's Freedom is written with infectious moral fervor; few recent books on "world affairs" have made more sense on the essentials of the present crisis. It points out that the greatest menace confronting the West today is not an outside force from "another world." Communism is part and product of Western civilization, a symptom-like a fever sore-of its crisis. Western civilization produced the Communists, and gave them their strongest weapons. The Communists do not win their victories simply by launching "offensives" against the West; they win whenever and wherever a vacuum is created...
There is one Western failure cardinal to all others. It is the disintegration of what McGuire calls the West's moral community...
...Natural Moral Law, Europe achieved a relatively high degree of order, applicable to all phases of life, alike "to the work of the craftsman and to the policies of the princes." If Christian morality was not universally practiced at all times, it was at least universally accepted in the West as a guide for action, a beacon, a standard...