Here, Essentially, Is My Quarrel With These Four Horsemen Of
the Apocalypse who have now dismounted and led their horses back into the distant Hollywood stable. I have small criticism to make of the ivory tower so long as one remains in......
It Is Not So Much That The Absence Of These
four men from Europe will cause us to lose the Second German War. It is that their presence in the United States may lead Ameri- can opinion, which is all too prone to doubt the......
When He Had Gone I Thought Of Other Men Over
in the United States who are not Americans. I thought of W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood ; I thought of older men who also had retired within the ivory tower. I thought of......
People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON A MAN came to see me the other day who had been in Finland until the moment of final capitulation and who still bore upon his forehead the signs of wear and......
I Doubt Whether He Would Seek Today To Defend His
attitude and that of his companions upon such grounds. It is easier, when Western civilisation is bursting into flames and thunder, to retreat into the gentler solitudes of the......
Let It Not Be Supposed That I Am Suggesting That
Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, Isherwood or Auden should return to Great Britain and immediately engage in mortal combat. Mr. Huxley, at least, has always been a convinced......