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Democratic Dilemma. Neither does Author de Sales believe that democracy is doomed in its struggle with Communism and Naziism. "Democracy," he says, "is still in a position to absorb many doctrines, such as socialism, without necessarily destroying itself, because it still remains the only mode of life and the only mechanism of society sufficiently broad as far as its philosophical basis is concerned, and sufficiently vague as to its outlines, to encompass a vast number of contradictions." He feels that "democracy is the only form of Government . . . strong enough . . . to avoid the 'grim horrors of revolution...
Sandwiched in between its usual weekly vaudeville show, RKO has some really first class entertainement this week. Count Basie, his band, and Maxine Sullivan, the girl whose Scotch has real flavor, are currently playing and singing there. Basie is such a genuine master of his mode of expression, he even makes the vaudeville seem fairly unobtrusive. In fact there are four couples of jitterbugs that do not once make you want to tear your hair, and who actually seem to belong in the show, because the Count plays...
MURDER A LA MODE-Eleanore Kelly Sellars-Dodd, Mead ($2). Office intrigue in a department store motivates the murders in this slightly windy but cleverly constructed tale. Authentic big-business background, sprightly heroine-narrator, two defectives with contrasting but efficient methods...
...reviewing the events of the past year that have brought the clouds of war even closer than 12 months ago, he stated that "the new national objective will soon change in many ways our mode of life," and that we must be ready to oppose the totalitarian influence from abroad and make democracy work in times of crisis. "We can only do so if each individual is willing through self-imposed discipline to make sacrifices for the ideals he worships...
Talleyrand's prescription for the fear disease was almost too simple: the restoration of legitimate governments in Europe, both monarchies and republics, "whose existence, form, and mode of action," he wrote, "have been strengthened and sanctioned over a long period of years, I might even say over a period of centuries." In France this meant the Bourbons. And having come to this conclusion, Talleyrand deserted Napoleon, risked his life to urge Tsar Alexander I to restore the French monarchy...