Evening star., 1940-04-28
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By MaryCarter Roberts,
The Sun Never Sets
By Malcolm Muggeridge. New York: Random House.
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Comment Is Devoted to Popular Passion
following passage popular passion
which part Of the decade is fair example:
experienced the agreeable sensation having paid them by
classify orderly
the illusion that they applied
statiea that hungry
sary state problem were in themselves satisfying and
psnnns without was
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guides world chaos were common akberes and still there
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n1ed to att attention The League Of Nations discussed it.
ucuary with civilization
physical strength and health the Light
subject Of & and and even lunches
nounced both paabe and satisfying by Lord order others who
partook OF them If had been possible
who went hungry would have been fed Nutrition ayed
no hunger except for efmportance and Righteousness
II fau mobiser credits French cabinet often
eparations
mobser soldas
chaos
No Sincerity OF
To Any Public Figure Of Period
can '9ssf
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arbo took the extremely effective form Of stunning
Gandhi and Shaw he makes equally ridiculous Noel Coward
opposite M High Mind as Mr. Low Mind seeing in the successful
playwright reflection of the folly
Macdonald successful politician Lord Beavebroo and Lord Rother
he rates giant clowns bufetng other
Russian communism followers OF Sir Oswald Moss facsm
snob OF the equaaanm autobiographers nedy
their intimate experiences to the public all dulous and self
interested he tells If Mr. Baldwin had
OF the ingenuity required unseat his King unseang Hitler the
decade he largely dominated might ended
As tothe end that decade he calls sad and foolish had
unremitng
yet says Mr. Muggdge was no war after all 1t had meaning
itself and the old meanings dragged animate
The opening OF osies should been hundap dspe the
ungulfed the hostlies
future book makes
that the plans world federation
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