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...against the West unless he got his way, was an overt attempt at blackmail. And international blackmail is something which neither the U.S. nor Britain can afford to pay even once. Gloomily, many a chancellery and much of the world's press concluded that the three-weeks-old Anglo-American effort to mediate the quarrel between France and Tunisia was headed for failure...
...mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the German captor." The real boot, of course, was the Soviet reign of terror; Lenin and Trotsky, between hasty Kremlin lunches "of salt pork, buckwheat grits, and red caviar," were stamping out all political opposition. Wilson might never have heeded Anglo-French pleas for intervention had it not been for "sentimental" considerations involving the Czechs, to whose postwar birth as a nation Wilson was passionately dedicated...
...Fellow Easterners Claire and Blazer Gates, a couple long on charm and short on character. Blazer is Jimmy's old roommate at Yale, and he treats life as an eternal Whiffenpoof Song. For kicks, the three sometimes bandy about "all the graphic, beautiful four-letter words of the Anglo-Saxon," but the revels turn sober when Claire and Jimmy end up in that old Anglo-Saxon place, bedd...
...Frank Pace is excellent presidential timber-well educated, fine background, superior administrative abilities. He has an interest in our Government, is an Anglo-Saxon, and approaches matters the way that type of person always does. Most important of all, he is a bang-up golfer...
This sort of spoofing aside, the book has a deadly serious animus: its real intention against Eliot is not to tear him for his bad verses but to attack him for his principles-which Eliot once oversimplified in his self-description as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature, and a royalist in politics." Lapsing into angry prose, Author Purcell elaborately accuses Missouri-born Thomas Stearns Eliot of being a reactionary, a Christian, an American, a spoilsport and ployer of anti-lifemanship, a sociologically irresponsible escapist. In a typical passage, Purcell complains that "The very great improvement...