Too Much and Too Soon

In most editorial offices and on most college campuses, as everyone knows, the Liberals keep squadrons of jet-propelled intellectuals in constant readiness for screaming take-off at a moment’s notice. What, they must now decide, are they to do about Lee Mortimer’s book (Around the World Confidential, Putnam, $3.50) ? Shall they pretend not to notice it, in the hope that it will pass for a mere international inventory of ordinary sin? Or should the squadrons be sent howling through the skies, to produce once more the uproar that has so often drowned out criticism of the One World gang?

If I were a Liberal, I should recommend the strategy of silence as the more promising in the present circumstances.1

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In most editorial offices and on most college campuses, as everyone knows, the Liberals keep squadrons of jet-propelled intellectuals in constant readiness for screaming take-off at a moment’s notice. What, they must now decide, are they to do about Lee Mortimer’s book (Around the World Confidential, Putnam, $3.50) ? Shall they pretend not to notice it, in the hope that it will pass for a mere international inventory of ordinary sin? Or should the squadrons be sent howling through the skies, to produce once more the uproar that has so often drowned out criticism of the One World gang?

If I were a Liberal, I should recommend the strategy of silence as the more promising in the present circumstances.1