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themes were played. One glorious theme is how the Lord God
Jehovah had a special interest in one chosen race, the Jews, in one
promised land, Palestine. . ., . But the Jews by themselves and
Pal~stine
by herself could not build the Kingdom of Heaven here
on earth. The spiritual essence of Judaism would eventually find
its expression here in America. But God held America back, and
the Romans destroyed the Jewish nation." The divine election next
semed to descend on Rome, but God still held America back. In
time, the British Empire arose, but once more the Kingdom of
Heaven on earth failed to arrive, and "God still held his hand over
America." Finally, like a football coach who reserves his star
player to send in for the crucial touchdown in the last quarter,
God has given the signal to America, "the heir of the religious
concepts of Palestine and the culture of Rome and England." The
prelude to the world symphony is finished, and the magnificent
opening chords of the major theme are heard. America is about to
undertake God's mission of "building in the full sun of a new day
for a peace which is not based on imperialistic intervention."
Aware of her Manifest Destiny, she is taking up the White Man's
Burden. " The American peace will be the peace of the common
1nan."
CONTRIBUTORS
GEORGE ORWELL is our regular London correspondent. ... LIONEL ABEL's
work has appeared in PARTISAN REVIEW,
View, Poetry
and other maga·
zines.... RoBERT FITZGERALD, whose poetry and trai1slaLions are well–
known, is on the staff of
Time .
...
RoNALD HAMBLETON is a young Cana–
dian poet. . . . LENORE G. MARSHALL, a volume of whose poems was
recently published by Macmillan, lives in New York City..•. KARL J.
SnAPIHO is serving in the Army overseas.... ALLANAH HARPER now is
living in New York City.... ERIC RussELL BENTLEY is a member of the
English Department of Black Mountain College. His article is part of
a book he is working on,
A Century of Hero Worship,
which also includes
studies of Carlyle, Nietzsche, Wagner and D. H. Lawrence.... KARL
WARNDORF is a refugee now in Cuba.... W. H. AUDEN has been teaching
at the University of Michigan.... FRANK Jo ES, whose "French Writers
Under Hitler" we recently printed, now teaches classics at Yale....
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD is now living in this country. . . . WERNER
BLOCH lives in New York City.... RANDALL JARRELL's first book of
poems,
Blood for a Stranger,
will be published by Harcourt, Brace this fall.
