To order any book reviewed in this book section, write: tian!” The religion of Spain, we are told, is the paganism of “the Goths, the Greeks, the Jews, the Romans, the Iberians, and the Moors,” and “the nature and function of Catholicism has enabled that paganism to remain intact.” This discovery is particularly opportune now that American Liberals have, for some reason, begun to speak respectfully of God.
Wendell Willkie appears to have been a man who, although ill-educated and gullible, was energetic and sincere; but not even Homer could make a hero of him. On the other hand, even Hector would seem a boob were his deeds recorded in Miss Rukeyser’s incredible style. One would suppose that her book was a travesty written in the worst possible taste, were it not so obvious that she is seeking to manufacture on an epic scale a political myth for the suckers who seem never to tire of fairy stories about “One World.”




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