An Abiding Dream
TEPER, LAZARE
An Abiding Dream By LAZARE TEPER AN abiding peace is not a dream: It can be a reality if *raaanky wul^lrij pay the price. The cost is a psychological one—some of our prejudice* a^iSMiaBfceom...
...She may have been funny looking, but she J* not dull-witted...
...The old charwoman or the rheumatic janitor risked life iWjat out an incendiary...
...There were ee cynics to boo...
...Bat when I utojs my humble contribution to the book drive I picked out every iial ftl lilthiin novel and who-dunnit tale that I could find around place...
...What aontnsng will such principle have even if the Soviet Union subscribes to it, so long as it does net change its attitude towards government ownership of the means of production and distribution...
...Maclver's plans must withstand the test of contact with reality...
...In the current Onild ubop papji'-gf PM...
...So When these soldiers come bach they will be all ¦*t to vote...
...Any normal participation in human •"¦j** was a come-down for him...
...And think of Charles Lindbergh...
...I should ttke to talk to yon shout this this veek.• • Gsdhthtg aha Uly .—As the DotJg Worktr bite lower and tower into soceat attacks, have touehed all-time loom for ararrgHy...
...I do not mean, of course, the high Symbolism that hot never attained, and which is precisely sensuous creation itself...
...to ho niched on fast, for the com- i «v--patshJIUl.hl stW| . . . We happened a> una Into sasnehndy who bndV» oapy ef Anomev-Genersi Biddies leutar to Psiiiasst Msssivelt...
...The moment the ¦Wiiped lady talks like a human being she falls from her jjatsntic estate...
...0 yea song for several ssdstsaasng people, like hiohhsshsp Spellman...
...If only in the light of ths sntitod wgr effort, its auuxfiostion would be an act of simple political reettom...
...S In the British army, both ut home and overseas, there is ra legslar system of adult education...
...s'jEat there is another reason why the gulf between civilian and ••Trice man is narrower over there...
...I think it woajdhe adrssahh) to atehp natifttt...
...Simon weakens hie case when he rotors to discredited aettcJetens and journalists, each as M. de Kerilli...
...They merely represent in a special sense what is e*rt of the common life...
...He in particularly interesting wher...
...eg the whose situatios and do an extended liBCstisujll end WmSm Job Obviously, this is snmsthlag the Gevernment eannet do...
...Compare things in Britain...
...Any wag...
...For a 'couple of months we tod John Parker going about over here...
...Even children hews WM their part Soldiers dedicated to dentil are not far-off and fvtosd beings...
...Jbandwagon...
...on destiny to to faro forward, "not fare well bat fans forward"— * *TFi ekdjl net cease from exploration And the end of oil our exploring WQt be to arrive where we started And know the piece for the fir*^ time " The perfection of the earthly paradise of youth is the rose, and of the purification of desire is the refifgng fire...
...It is mini too simple to describe the Nirvana...
...The cost is a psychological one—some of our prejudice* a^iSMiaBfceom outworn notions and tradition...
...One cannot help the feeling that Dr...
...We put him on a pedastal and condemn ge all the penalties of the hero status...
...e:' . e • jl hit- Girti and Of grottos sm this country," said Dr...
...Now they are under a sort of sentence of dentil for •* protection of all...
...Ho was over there for sixty days, fjgfe about sixty speeches and a lot of them ware to soldiers, gt is a churchman, religious leader amy all that—but he has a jfcarp eye...
...with everyone*at liberty te shoot off his mouth...
...Y. Pel u teliii Service director...
...Is it not ironic to erne on usesnsoty the doctrine of Lessing, "fare forward...
...of the compulsion of philosophy, but of spiritual energy and salvation one might say that Eliot is everywhere, but especially in this poem, the poet of Purgatory...
...It was not aat because be was a narrow-minded isolationist...
...The minute he dared fy** opinions we were ready to tear him to pieces...
...The real test is to start mankind moving on the new path...
...Maclvet lays down certain essential requirements of the new international order...
...Yettew, Gfoon * Black.—Eaaghtened forces within the labor * mevemon t have bean moving- for the re peel of the Changes exclusion not (in the passage of which trade-unions, keif a csnnrny ago, weee so instrumental...
...s deeper eonv munien" we must have courage to sUrt er the round egain...
...This means that his approach is quite different frees that of the current journalists who attempt to raise their nosessseie gceeip to the dignity of s aistoneel science...
...he deem with what went on .a Caahoiie and conservative nlrriss nhaati he knew through his diraet and personal experisr.ee...
...What on sheises smear I Only tote things wore wrong...
...tokUerSi on duty and off duty, have regular times and places {or lectures and discussions...
...What he reports about British army policy ought to tohnj us up thinking...
...eallod "PS," the feUow-traraler editor tries to put the iehgar en the union progressives (ineiudrng several lending PM writers* who have opnened Communist policies in recent local issTUsl . >. Hsnehtui she last "PS" offered is—lUiztr Wright, who is pcantntly idensnaed so-"under indictment as an unregistered Jap Agent...
...that practical desire, action, suffering, inner and^ outer compulsion, srs and endless roooc...
...The current opposition to the Eisnern-Rynr...
...Questions were far-ranging...
...Over here every addle-pated politician that when the heroes come home they wiU vote 100 per cent tor particular form of idiocy...
...solvation is to ths snifsss tnont these, u» abstention from ntetiou, abiding ot the still point of the turning wort*, and this u lave...
...It is much too easy to urge mankind to give up its sinful ways...
...He later made a spectacular swrteh tohing all his reactionary-financial mfluonea, eve* to the .iWMainW...
...And it is not a dehydrated, emasculated affair...
...By T. S. Eliot...
...Each #f ¦ a potential hero...
...and across from nie set wertan, straight soldiers...
...Maelver To implement his picture of the world of tomorrow Dr...
...MacJver draws a bteeprhrt of the political organization of the world confederation baaed on the oaodiAcatioo at >b...
...The easy disposition of the fate of Eschonia and Latvia—their absorption by the U.8.S.R.—will hardly meet with an enthusiastic response en the part of all of these peoples...
...and we may aak if there can be a great peg*' of Purgatory...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN igfcglNHOLD NIEBUHR comes back from England with news Js> sbout the British amy...
...We glamorise the ,*fjfrr and just naturally think the distant view of a glamor girl i^HSJdt him down to the ground...
...These include removal of trade barriers, guarantee to all countries of an access to raw materials, provision of relatively stable currencies as well as the undamming of international flow of capital...
...He ctotusise she problems , of Prance with aU the isriiarmsi which they merit...
...Niebuhr in making his report, "we 1 eeent to think we are fulfilling the whole duty of nation when we send the soldiers glamor girls and cigarettes.'* That may he jett a Stop bit exaggerated...
...we must bo stitt an* stiB mevntg...
...Copies ef tot Besei sign plan were sent to the camps, and discussion leaders followed...
...J* /eferJoriry of Heroes P~*5 fieding the right words for all this...
...In the diction always a subtile edge ef irony and paradox, but an edge even more sub-tilery and beautifully blunted in the interest ef the humility that is his theme...
...i | think that what gets between us and the men in service is t sort of romantic adoration...
...The English have had a tough ¦"to- Bat they are being sunned one of the worst horrors of war...
...They can't be extorted to make up their minds about it by magic...
...Currently he's in a camp all by knnssrf' in' North Afetos...
...We don't get it...
...The way—* world confederation of all Mttoos, etns-mies as well as allies...
...And second, at the lost iltsaan Hi ism Wright come out actively in support of—ths Kremlin-Set slate ef candidates...
...Wmm adws epnaessatk...
...She can't have it wsys...
...Yet Shot is not one of the colossal poets whose truth and attitude we spontaneously advocate, or if we dissent we feel nevertheless that their creating will loom against (and "tomorrow overwhelm...
...Here is something that happened the sw.^P °? * V*1"- ^ c*r whs filled...
...Parker ht from the TJptMiiity of Bristol, and for the past' two years he has spent a let of his energy on this soldier education...
...Yet, coercing small powers is no easy matter...
...Up to recently we Ecursed with a tinge fore of romance Our literature shows And romance is the darnedest thing in the world to get in P> Way of clear thinking and realistic acting...
...She hesitated, atinrujted, she thanked him and sat down...
...Hut facts are facta, on* one should net tamper with them sen more than ene would chnnge dates or fignres...
...Otherwise, we must net impose our will on the enem| nations and should mestii politieeVor economic orgaragjtfiquyWfjpsar, te the, exten( ; eelfllh eeoiion^fe relations are it* •-;ujstei requisite of a lasting peace...
...She realized what was happening...
...Death for their country's cause is closely 2* in with the dull round of ordinary life...
...the tunes*ieg of ilisiisn ate information in support of one his -recent works, im Mmreke o la Delivranct...
...The contrast between what she is and what we ¦JrouT her to be splits oui sides with laughter...
...The reel task is to plot the Pilgrim's Progress...
...several inaccuracies...
...The Bevendge *** matters to them as it does to everyone...
...finite variations...
...We are sending books...
...A seetona, stedy like this ene has ne need ef such cuuip^tanttas, guarantors Mr...
...Niebuhr gave the boys a report on what takes place in this esuntry...
...Most of them are just about Hke us...
...But the story had already leaked...
...Only the most necessary steps should b« dictated to the enemy—disarmament of troops and their demobilisation, surrender of spoils and evacuation of occupied teratories, conversion of industry to peacetime production, and resumption of international trade...
...And it is moving to^nsssf^Bse poet (in the face of the world-wide catastrophe> speak sutn-biographically for the firsttttoe...
...One who is rated I-A goes to war and is expected te h* a hero, but he is supposed to pot his brains in dead-storage far tot duration...
...So we send *m Murder on Monday and never, never, 8. H. Cerr's Conditfom *f Peace...
...She may be either an adored imbecile or a rational ¦eofim being...
...Par ¦egg, Hsaner Wright, e copy editor ef the Duel* Stwt...
...Be1ng'normal **d human, they must have the same minimum of information as •atOne else...
...Maclver's plea is eloquently stated...
...Maybe one of them will send 2*'* **rneo' bitter to explain it all in the proper scientific terms...
...The state of Georgia has just gjtoj ikons Is uae to give the votes to all those above the age of 18...
...They are capable of in...
...And a* symbolism that, more in keeping with his genius, hue returned to great overall metaphors and place-names, renouncing the factitious detailed symbolism of his ^earlier period— "A way of putting it—not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical /v _ feiskton...
...Or to put this another way—for I am not'speaking...
...The boy a few houses dowtr-the street dies ^Guadalcanal, fjj, parents receive the medal...
...The plan was explained and discussed—freely, ecenly...
...e o e *** Brtthh Sm Oifforeef ? |HAVE not even the slightest-inferiority complex in face of the British...
...But then W Sflowod Jt to leak out that what he really wanted was a nice, PJeap widow...
...Italy's f emeus ruhhSf sea gas to, who has bean in Italy's midir sesiten, agd currentsy IB in Washington...
...nti'lalsng ee> the Race-Riot crisis We hogged and pleaded ami finally tajked hrm into giving us an "exclusive...
...Far o ntssuhsr ef or got **fiHiiiilaead resnjeng the State DepartmmU tea'* dot...
...This is the text of a paasionete sermon preaehed by Dr...
...The soldiers came to crowds...
...our" doubt...
...And on the other hand, this poem has glorious new perfections...
...Dozens of psycho-A**1j*jjh r*»- The New Leader...
...his owu ia llama the afigh day practically disowned his WsohhtgOen ton sand...
...e » rVrait Board News:—The deferment of Angelo Hern don...
...The boys enter into it with enthusiasm...
...fiTsmsasejst by Jmmem A. Corb+tt om* CreorgeJ.McHomw., SkeH and *>d...
...lo s boy «ho hi rated as 4-A is expected to help solve the problems of use nation...
...And a thought eeorywhere so central and self-known that he can go off at liberty' yet never divagate, 'for we are always close to the heart of it...
...you 11 probably be interested to knot* that laddie...
...Otto is still considered something of an "aneasj alien"—which may hold up his draft papers...
...Defeat and After By PAUL TEXTOR THE ROAD WO VIOVY <1«S-1»38> Yrlt» g Simm...
...At the same tints, Mr...
...And I—sitting •toast the aisle—was ready to shout...
...They are soldiers who have not resigned ¦tautens...
...Tee itosnssirn took to n lot of matters beyond the sot topic There TO m one to toll them to lay off this or that subject...
...The thing is not formal or dulled with agones of duty...
...A 'la} ef Americans bad heard of tills...
...i.- - *------1-rm— _i--t...
...Yet unless he indicates to the world how it may break Hs psysbejegiinl chains and free -.teati fiop* the Gordwi Jpett of anstfudaw and taasto tion...
...And therein, if Dr...
...And it is even delightful to find T. S. Eliot coming to a kind of antinesaianisra—"all snail be well, all manner of thing shaU he well"—for obviously sin also is * venture to fare forward on...
...The whole business looks to toe like plain good sense...
...found "no evidence of any Axis, or Fascist, or Ku Klux Klan incitassent...
...The only insurance spins* snch a fate is the vigilance of sincere democrats agaanst sue* military atone whether of lictoighi or ef the left Groups ef this sort are all taw* in conflfct'foT power over the futdre Prance...
...leading Stalinist spokesman, on the grounds of Me position as "essonstol to the war effort" (he publishes u fellow-trsveler Negrs quarterly) has been eon tinned over the pretest of Cot Arthur MgPesmitt, hi...
...Ogdeu Rein...
...Happy-happy we sat down and started madly copying— tor he was heading back for the capital m a few minnea...
...An international police force is provided lor t# implement the legislative will of the international legislature and the dictum of the international jasliicry...
...Simon repeat...
...and ioha a Rockefeller, there would be no diacultf » rafchtg the money...
...It has been u vtsndard comic situation for countless ages...
...The proposed territorial readjustments are also passed over much too lightly...
...What lie says—I think it can be synoptgaad without dtotoitton is that tints, past present or future, in loos of the soul...
...Moreover, young people who stay M are not treated as children...
...Thomas Umoni...
...It cannot be just because the soldiers are K. They are not all young...
...How are we to go about it...
...Whan.ha urns ia New York a few months ago, he worked oiallium trying to bay out some forsigWangnage odharial influence...
...Maclver'c world of lasting peace is built in a sort, of intellectual vacuum...
...Their danger sets them apart...
...William Green, when pressed to sup la in more fully has reasons, chaw ens' with come impatience "A Chinaman fat always a.CMaa-mua, havent you noticed that...
...Unless colonies of all nations be brought under an international control within fifteen years er so after the cessation of hostilities, colonies of the enemy countries ere to be returned to them...
...49 page...
...One is relieved not u find in his narrative any of the 'emms fatsdet who lihittot up the lucubrations of-soma of ear ridfeuiotnr sensational wriaanu Because of the .general high level of the performance, the sea ass is potnedshe more standing that-Mr...
...Horconrt...
...Other fellows gg the same notions have been re-elected to the Senate...
...I read a number of English papers...
...a great poet not always attended by some angel of Paradise...
...I am not pointing tho finger at any-ena I share this feeling...
...Inside and Out By MATTHEW LOW •jpie fourth BetaU^-One of^tiw^osn^ ^aaSgh^TtaasJ are^olffl^into^ ^S'XS ^tsteSlSi b,,ffyT1p- ^ ****** '" Mil'iaiaalir^^gp...
...To pave the way towards an shading peace, we must make a start at the end of this - war...
...has tuft bean active iaXJsnld politics for a tang time...
...tepubheu* Ftamcako, fniWiliisTettjBiteis Monte**) The author is a Catholic aftaW aehool of Jaceues Mantata ana » the toedtttes of Charles Peguy...
...The British have all been fire...
...Broiee...
...Opinions are opinions...
...anus's letter to Roossvatt atos contained this talwsst|ag imaapaghi...
...old men ought to be explorers...
...that need to be singled out for contemners* n cult of experience...
...These instances illustrate the fact that Dr...
...On the other hand, it is with great jpusuif that the render comet on the following definition, borrowed apparently from M. Waldemar Garten "The establishment of a tobfiitarlaa.regimo took place on the day when a band of eroted sp declared that they were the state...
...l.stsmjari-Dnasruil was one of the mea responsihle for hrtogiag Con art' Gisaad to North Africa...
...an* point to his (Continued aa Page Satan...
...and id the liiusiisi, "the fire an* thy rose are one," » - wteshr i WHAT a relief this noble doctrine is after the ** wasteland of Anglicanism and new Humanism...
...In a letter to the Editor of the <MH aspirise, far December 1, 1941, Wright stated: "My «vta goer to n* store* kMtUd by Robert Conway end todudKug ffnthersjMMl Rgum, tkt totter at "ej?r««e*tectoes •/ the hordml nisi isng gg*sayP7 Gxttran mm hove...
...It was the end...
...On these matters he lacks adequate inforjaation The passage dealing with Gostave Herve ajrrtsir...
...From Newark to **toletoaia the dumpy little woman sat there with three straight y 'toeWnr army man...
...complete with an Assembly of Nations, an International Executive, International Court and an International Equity Commission...
...I'D bet everyone else did the same...
...published by the Msison Francaise...
...We do, every-fldng bat talk baby-talk to them, and occasionally the radio ¦svrters-of-ceremony practically do that...
...Bat would one not expect that as a poet, not a saint, he could not possibly fail to have an abiding cerifidenser— a confidence net, ef course, in his proposition* but m his anility-to make someuung it has medium, the gift ("given, and taker.* of tint Ci«ator SpimT ' > Or te put it still another way, looking at who* he says, we see ntore clea^yW^'e* asauv apeak i is why Bitot ie net a Christian poet) how his Christianity is sapped-by Indian iqgeot and ye* he ados not have the Indian wisdom either...
...No room must be left to indemnities and recriminations...
...we fear the new intetntjejcyten, order may not merge, at least within the next few yeses, out of the brue print stage...
...A year Jjjtbey were ordinary guys delivering groceries or-putting the IPM to'Order...
...That line, aua*iuh"fj, would make the one-time Austrian Battalion, which trained j* Indiana, a corps of 8th-colamnists...
...Maclver's theories-are eoi-reet,hes"ilti&AirttX IBn conffJ»t»d...
...IU6 HERE is a good translation of a hook which -rnenff-1 « French ia Canada wider the title, &tWkjd Cnse dt la...
...One of S* J*?**** ****hU"B rose and offered her his seat...
...The transfer of the Sudetenland to Germany will not be received with cheers by the Cseehs...
...T. S. Eliot: The Poet of Purgatory By PAUL GOODMAN FOUR QUARTETS...
...He was human, and we were finished *ra him...
...An a contribution to the Simple Bvpleuartou Jnpai liasss...
...His account, which is characterised by an unfailing intelleetsai probity, covers the, turn Big years of French political life between toe saw wars...
...hjorta African Note:—Behind the scenes of the Giraud-De Goalie " unity there are still many rumbles of dissatisfaction, aad ehiaf rambler is still Jeewuon jtontusgyuj Drnkmrnit...
...But **jdbergh had been a hero...
...Hern dor, has hern calling for "a Second Front New," hut insists that he has to help with tee race problem on the heme front . . . Archduke Otto von Hnbsburg...
...y is ft that we talk baby-talk to those whom we adore...
...The proposal that Lithuania be made a part of Poland ignores die antagonisms built over generations between these two national groups...
...Spangler set up'a howl (kat ha was playing politics...
...In our camps controversy is taboo . A soldier who tries to explain an idea is likely to be met by the cry: "Get j. ssspafrr'" When President Roosevelt outlined Ids program for taking care of the returned soldiers, Mr...
...Now that fieedum of the press is being given te Algerian pjangy, LsensigTf Oahrssil is expected to speak up with a toad veins, rv...
...So far above the poems that appear those days that one has almost a duty, to ally himself with the poet against oho average, and write nothing bat praise Easy to do...
...so do its unoksemcn in the various KresnUn Soto srsund emyejsgi* and snore ifeeenonsible...
...It would he poalldt to point out others...
...She cannot be both...
...tanking to gain support for his point ef view when, in fact, the result is junt the contrary...
...So far I have not seen in ¦ess a single aaainine prediction about what the soldiers Will do J*to they come back...
...30-year-old pretender to the Austrian throne, is stffl a ¦rMssn Scheduled for induction into the U. 8. Army far shnont tare years now...
...The young men discussed just as would amy greap of serious citizens...
...fli'-*^* soldiers are all under the shadow of hero-worship...
...H..- emphasis won on social factors, transportation, beueing, and the like...
...Every boy in thiform shares his glory...
...Not being ?r*r-men, they have the average amount of brains...
...The A.F.U however, is still holding to its traditional pasMea...
...He counseled against the Prostoem s going on the uedie to discuss the whole problem...
...In general, territorial changes should be avoided, except for a few "isolated" instances...
...Some of the problems may be glimpsed from his work, although they are passed ever with toe great ease...
...We just naturally wed to treat the soldiers as if they were adolescents...
...Which leadens me of the story of a Chtneee who has lived sent operated Ms Is an ill in Part list tar ¦any, many years (there araansae nana 2000 Chinese in Harlem) In the rtoto ef 1035, shops were being raided and ¦¦iishng The little laundrysnan saved hie own store by posting the eseisilln sign—"Me Colored Too...
...So they are taken for granted as regular citizens...
...S There hi about this something very strange, something that isauires explanation...
...Aoeerdtng to tile latest information, ho "in now Wmm anggmnj te military generals being in tdmintstrativs powet...
...all rt oaa do to eee way ef eetpoeing ths reel Feleogta* msnose ht Lo«m-y4 w»er»es5' . .That Arthur Kress was in a bail about the froni punas Mb, patch the Times pristod on Cordell Hail...
...and get, and this ht the capital peteVit is esdy through esmertonns in time, an* returning on that experience completed to perceive its pattern, that, the timeless may be grasped, aaer'tonhy through time time is conquered,'' and "a petals with sat history is not redeemed front time, for ah*aa» to a pattern ef tinssioss momerte": and rheeufars, for "a further eaton...
...lii Valtinr srushor of Out of the .Vtgtt, has passed Us Army induction tests and will report for active duty on August 2...
...Our angers swollen, but our head proudly bock, we returned to hue office to welee Our Scoop of the Week...
...How can he urge the principle of free mobility of capital between, nations and at the same time say that the economic and political structure of the stntes, parties to the international eoafederation, should be left up te these...
...In the nature of the case this is the poet whose voice has a famous "dying fall...
...AJ1 tfeat is necessary is that France fen into- the head ef such an armed gang...
...And a wonderful conversational use of meters far -from the iambic pentameters in which we ethers have learned to think at our ease...
...It is full of politics and current concerns...
...This means that-he jjyaes more and less than n normal human being...
...that ia te say...
...At Newark there came in a funny-¦oStog^duinpy/little old Jewish woman carrying a basket...
...Think cf this, for example...
...see en the one hand Eliot has for a long time hod no poetic faults, of excess or lapse, of writing beyond what he knows or" of merely repeating huneelf: he writes what he ia, for better or worse...
...Bernard ¦ae got u tot of fun out of this sort of insanity...
...snaeatoe is now being smoantd with Jap egout Heiset Wright's eonnections: . . . . • • R«UK>r»-oe-the-Higlie»i-Authont> Deportment: — It is said thoi Publisher Arthur Huge Setaherger ef the New Times got au iey-eoW shoulder from the Kremlin on hie recent trip awroadl . ¦ ¦ Asaung-the cenfereee wish American diptomaU on the piiSsehlWty of an Kalian deal—the son of hismor Pirelli...
...Do you remember Admiral g*yT How we showered him with gifts and adulation...
...and he rone the danger of continuing with tine sort of thtng m the future...
...Wo picked up an early edition of s daOy contemporary, and there it all wee...
...It 1s much the same with heroes...
...of us...
...But he says, referring to the central theme of this poem, v "To apprehend The point of intersection if the timeUss ' Wtah time, is an occupation ef the esahtf— No occupation either, hut tomething give* And taken, ht a lifetime's death ut love...
...For mott •/ us, there is only the tmnftsudsd Moment, the moment ht and out ef time, . The attraction fit...
...thus it is always relevant to . ash if what he says is binding...
...She 9*v w*™<PPed those young men with her eyes...
...But Reinhold Niebuhr eohrted the whole thing up in such a way as to make us Americans fee} ashamed of ourselves...
...Haclver is forced unwittingly to recognize that here and there' in the process of the world Reorganization, compulsion rather than mutual .consent would have to be used...
...Simon several times refers.to mde and events connected with the soeiehst iiiulasient...
...1"H IS poem of personal experience and historical ** experience, and the experience of eternity, is excellent...
...12.00...
Vol. 26 • August 1943 • No. 33
