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AMERICA FACES THE NEXT WAR- Frank H. Simonds-Harper ($1). When (there is no ''if" in Prophet Simonds' vocabulary) the next great European war breaks out, what is the U. S. going to do about it? In this incisive little book (82 pp.) a keenly realistic observer of international affairs does his high-level best to prove that war is imminent, inevitable, that the U. S. will be in it. Observer Simonds does not believe in fairies, the Kellogg Pact or the League of Nations. He views the present state of the world with grim alarm...
JACOB WASSERMAN again demonstrates his ability as a story-teller in his latest volume of Jewish Lore. The Dark Pilgrimage (Liveright, $2.50). His account of the re-incarnation of a 17th century prophet who had betrayed his people is one that will prove fascinating, as well as instructive. Four stars for this, and it's a grand gift selection...
...reges regnant et tyranni per me tenent terram," "through me kings rule and tyrants hold their power." Later, in the Sententiae of St. Isidore of Seville, iii 48, we find a long explanation of the sanctions of the tyrant's rule centering around a dictum of the Prophet Hosea "I shall give them a king in my wrath." Gregory the Great, in his commentary on the Book of Job, insists that the ruler, whatever be his weight or fineness, must not only be supported, but reverenced as a limb of God. More, in his Regulae Pastoralis iii 4, he praises...
...coming generation only to refine upon it. The book ends with a note of optimism, and a challenge to youth to carry out the Great Tradition by recognizing the reality of the Revolution. One cannot help feeling that, despite his idea fixe, Mr. Hicks is a true prophet of the course of American literature for the next twenty years...
...crystallized an opposition to the ideal which went to reinforce the more obvious opposition to its practice. Fascism labours under no such handicap. Its critics are never sure that they are attacking the concept rather than a mere imperfect application of it; and its high priests will appoint neither prophet nor creed to dispel a confusion that is so convenient...