Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Roberts expects to go on writing historical novels. "I like this stuff," he confesses. He likes the sameness of historical types over the ages, claims Caesar's and Washington's legionnaires were the same types, has discovered that soldiers of the American Revolution said "buddy" and "okay"and used modern obscenities.Critics call his work romance, but Roberts' real interest is to tell what he thinks really happened. Says Kenneth Roberts: "All novels are historical, unless you just want to write about yourself...
...censor-delayed dispatch from India printed in the Christian Century last week revealed that the British Government was taking extra precautions that missionaries should render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. The method: a revised memorandum covering "aliens desiring to undertake missionary work" in India and Burma. Since World War I the British have required every foreign missionary to pledge that he would "do nothing contrary to or in diminution of the authority of the lawfully constituted government in the country to which I am appointed." The mission board or society which supports him now shares that...
...Vikings, the Spaniards, the Flemish, the British, and many other Germans; but after every other invasion France always succeeds France. She remains herself, like these old stones from Provence which the Romans hauled down from the mountains in their attempt to colonize once for all the land which Caesar captured from Vercingeto...
Into this gritty, parched, uncertain warfare Italy and Britain were plunged deep last week. This campaign, which the British seemed inclined to treat as comic opera and the Italians as the biggest thing since Julius Caesar, was potentially as important to World War II as the still possible invasion of the United Kingdom by the Germans...
...crisis since Commodore Perry in 1853 opened Japan to missionaries and traders this week faced the Church in Japan-a crisis so serious that U. S. missionaries may soon be driven from Japan, and Japanese churches slump for want of foreign funds. The Church found itself at odds with Caesar. Like many an unmilitant democracy, Japanese Christians of late years had followed the easy course of appeasement, tried at once to conciliate Japan's rulers and still preserve the spiritual and temporal gains they had made in three generations of missionary work. Japan's New Order, like many...