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International Socialism, Winter 1960/61

 

Michael Segal

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From International Socialism (1st series), No.3, Winter 1960/61, p.32.
Thanks to Ted Crawford & the late Will Fancy.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

America the Vincible
Emmett John Hughes
Penguin Books. 3s6d.

This book is sub-titled – A Brief Inquiry, Written with Much Anxiety and Some Anger, Dealing with Matters of Foreign Policy, Seeking Probable Sources of our Peril and Causes of Our Fear, as well as the Suggestion of Possible Ways by Which we Might, while Enduring the Stern Trial, Hold Hope – Tempered by Reason, to live in Freedom More Profound and Peace less Precarious.

Mr. Hughes’ prose and thinking is precious, leavened by large slabs of Windy Rhetoric. It is forgivable only if we remember that he is a prominent editorial writer on the staff of Time magazine – and is having something of a verbal holiday from that clipped magazine. As a forceful and pugnacious critique of American foreign policy, it is a pathetic and pretentious failure.

 
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