MAJ. ELIOT'S PLATITUDES
Coleman, Mcalister
The Progressives Bookshelf Maj. Eliot's Platitudes HOUR OF TRIUMPH, by George Fielding Eliot. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York. $2.50. Reviewed by McAlister Coleman MAJOR ELIOT, as he still likes...
...He is also going to be pretty rough with the Bulgarians, against whom he seems to have a personal feud...
...Let us be judged by the manner of its fulfillment," is his penetrating peroration...
...What is "this...
...We are engaged in the most terrible war of all time," is his startling introduction...
...If we let down the rest of the world again "we shall in very truth break the heart of humanity...
...As for Japan, after her defeat (a defeat by the way which the Major once prophesied would occur a few months after we had tangled up with her) she is to be denied the use of her own ships, the holding of any territory outside of the islands, and all weapons of modern warfare...
...This reviewer, a hardened veteran of World War I from Camp Humphries, Virginia, having read a lot of books like the Major's, contemplates writing one of his own...
...by Sergeant McAlister Coleman, Military Expert for the War Resisters League...
...Reviewed by McAlister Coleman MAJOR ELIOT, as he still likes to be called as a reminiscence of his title with the Intelligence branch of the Army after the last war, has collected in his latest book all the cliches and platitudes about war and peace that have been lying around the landscape for the past five years...
...So that we shall not shatter once more that often shattered organ it is necessary for us to join with the other United Nations after our hour of triumph in the organization of an international police force which shall see to it that Germany, will not build up a new Luftwaffe and will launch no more U boats...
...It will be called something like "Bombs Bursting in Air, Peace it is Wonderful, or Who Threw the Monkey Wrench in the United Nations Council...
...There are a lot of other details about what we are going to do with the "criminal" nations with which I shall not bother you...
...It is to bring peace to the world which looks to "this great free Republic of the West" for liberation...
...The Major is going to be tougher with Japan than with Germany so as to make the fate of Japan "an example to the German people...
...This book, under God, ought to put a stop to this sort of thing, but probably won't...
...With maps, price $5.00...
...One of the top seers in that bizarre assortment of soothsayers known as "military experts," he lends to his anthology of the obvious the correct Delphic air of profundity...
...This, under God, is America's destiny...
Vol. 8 • May 1944 • No. 22
