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...Refugee's Question. Hero Antolin was never a revolutionary. He had worked in a bank, aiming for a decent and simple life. Then he had fought for the Loyalists. Afterward, when he fled to England, Antolin left a wife and three children. The best he could do in London was to become a waiter, send occasional small amounts to his family and learn to be at ease in a new country. He admired English life and especially English regard for individual liberty. He became a British subject, found himself an English girl. But like many a refugee, he thought...
...found in his eleven novels, including The Robe, The Big Fisherman. He was always frankly "more concerned with healing bruised spirits than winning the applause of critics"-who deplored his cliches, called his people puppets, his action melodrama. Novelist Douglas was even inclined to agree: "The characters are tiresomely decent, and everything turns out happily in the end ... I came into this business too late to take on any airs about...
...White House aide could remember, it was the first time that Harry Truman had mentioned Stalin by name in public since his famous back-platform remark in Eugene, Ore., during the 1948 campaign. Then he had affectionately admitted that "I like old Joe," and hopefully added: "He is a decent fellow, but he is a prisoner of the Politburo." Now the President was tagging Stalin as a so-and-so in his own right...
...search for wisdom in the Far East, Ruby is stricken, but has the courage to let him go. When stolid daughter Miranda, in mute rebellion against her mother's beauty, proposes to marry a mincing dressmaker, Ruby pulls together all her resources and prods Miranda into a decent marriage with a likable young man with the imposing name of James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story seems to be that Ruby alone of her indolent set has salvaged something by helping to set her daughter right. But this implication is not likely to strike anyone...
...comrades, Mao wrote: "The world now lives in an era of revolution and war, a new era, where capitalism is definitely dying and socialism is beginning to flourish. In the international environment of the middle of the 20th Century, there are only two ways open to all decent people in the colonies and semi-colonies. They must either go over to the side of the imperialist front or take part in the world revolution. They must choose between these two. There is no other...