Challenge to Action

Competitive Coexistence: The New Soviet Challenge, by Rodney Gilbert. A Free Enterprise Publication distributed by The Bookmailer, New York. 182 pp. $3.00

Rodney Gilbert, whose deep-seeing weekly essays in the New York Herald Tribune in the late 1940’s oyer the signature “Heptisax” many of us remember nostalgically, calls this little book a “tantrum.” He does have in abundance what seems to be sadly lacking in America nowadays: a robust capacity for indignation against evil and connivers with evil. But the anger derives not alone from hatred of tyrants and cynics and fools, but from compassion for their victims and victims-to-be, which is ourselves. And the whole of the book, despite its unorthodox vigor of expression, is grounded on precise knowledge and common sense.

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Competitive Coexistence: The New Soviet Challenge, by Rodney Gilbert. A Free Enterprise Publication distributed by The Bookmailer, New York. 182 pp. $3.00

Rodney Gilbert, whose deep-seeing weekly essays in the New York Herald Tribune in the late 1940’s oyer the signature “Heptisax” many of us remember nostalgically, calls this little book a “tantrum.” He does have in abundance what seems to be sadly lacking in America nowadays: a robust capacity for indignation against evil and connivers with evil. But the anger derives not alone from hatred of tyrants and cynics and fools, but from compassion for their victims and victims-to-be, which is ourselves. And the whole of the book, despite its unorthodox vigor of expression, is grounded on precise knowledge and common sense.