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...sword of Damocles hanging over our heads," moaned natty M.S.I. Chief Prince Valerio Borghese, and that is just what it is. For the moment, the government is content to let its bright new weapon hang for all to see. It let word leak out that next month's M.S.I, national convention would be permitted but carefully watched. Borghese sent word to the faithful to avoid the Fascist salute, the Fascist hymn and similar trappings...
...Spasm of Pride. Humming with pain, Pacote goes back into the ring to fight his farewell bull. But the picador and banderilleros have not only slowed the animal (as they are supposed to), but stopped him. The bull refuses to follow the cape. Pacote thrusts in the killing sword, knowing it is only a dismal formality...
...long as the peaceful Chinese in Malaya sympathize with the Communist guerrillas in the jungle, and even actually help them, peace is something that the sword alone cannot...
...expresses this unconventional view with some force and scores many points, over the other characters, all of whom, needless to say, are slavishly conventional. All of them--the friend in need, the moralizing mother, two different types of outraged husband, and several others--are put to the sword, and a good deal of genuine social satire results from this assault on conventional morality...
...even though, as he sadly admits, British rates of pay are "pitiful." There are at least two reasons for Bates's persistence: 1) he writes some of the best short stories of any Englishman of his generation, and 2) whenever he turns out a novel, e.g., The Scarlet Sword, Fair Stood the Wind for France, the critics usually deplore them. In Colonel Julian, a collection of 15 stories about fairly ordinary men & women, Author Bates is back at his proper underpaid trade...