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...those days Andre Maurois wrote: ". . . There was an immediate clash between the morbid susceptibilities of Monsieur Desjardins . . . the diabolical maliciousness of Gide. . . . The Germans . . . enveloped the lucid ideas of the Frenchmen in ... abstractions . . . Lytton Strachey ... in amazement at our lack of humor . . . went to sleep. ... Its virtues far outweighed its drawbacks. . . . There was talk of giving Paul Desjardins the Nobel Prize for Peace...
...France the flames of physically burning London. To the fact of Britain's violent destruction and heroic resistance men tried to readjust themselves in books like Margaret Kennedy's Where Stands a Winged Sentry ($2); Blood, Sweat and Tears, Winston Churchill's Speeches ($3); John Strachey's Digging for Mrs. Miller...
Victoria's Heir, a life of Edward VII, is almost worthy to be a sequel to Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria, for the stuffy, portentous Victorian age seems peculiarly able to inspire some of the best writing of the 20th Century. The late Lytton Strachey's roguish mandarinism seemed gently but fatally borne along on the undertow of a dying civilization. George Dangerfield writes with the desperate blandness of a man who has heard even in the U.S. (where he has resided since 1931) the thud of London's falling walls and the stridency of gutting...
...John Strachey (The Coming Struggle for Power, etc.) stopped his fellow-traveling with the war and became an air-raid warden. Digging for Mrs. Miller is a classic account of what a warden does and sees...
...Strachey's warden (whom he modestly calls Ford) covered a poor section of London near the Thames River. "A bomb, or bombs, had hit the last five houses in Beaton Street . . . and a small tenement...