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But the trouble is not that the
New Yorker
treated Hiroshima like any
scene of death and suffering; the trouble is that the
New Yorker
has
always treated death and suffering the way it treated Hiroshima.
The Wild Flag
is a collection of E. B. White's
New Yorker
editorials
about peace and world government. Mr. White has good will and intel–
ligence, and he is trying to live up to his responsibilities as a citizen.
Here is a selection of his thoughts:
"If
the range of our planes continues to increase, the range of our
thoughts will have to increase.... "
"We propose that
it shall be the policy of the United States to bring
to an end the use of policy."
(The italics are Mr. White's, indicating
that this is an important point.)
"[Democracy] is the line that forms on the right. It is the don't
in Don't Shove.... It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the
feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere.
Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth.
It
is an idea which
hasn't been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad.
It's the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. ..."
"An arresting fact about warfare is that it is now unpopular with
the men who are engaged in it and with the people who are supporting
it.... And
if
a thing is unpopular, there is always the amusing possibility
that it may not, then, be inevitable."
WHEN BOYHOOD DREAMS COME TRUE
by
James
T.
Farrell
$2.75
METAMORPHOSIS
by
Franz Kafka
GREEN SONG and other poems
by
Edith Sitwell
THE FACTS OF LIFE
by
Paul Goodman
THE STATE OF NATURE
by
Paul Goodman
HORIZON STORIES
edited
by Cyril Connolly
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