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homes and schools."
(The World War and After,
p. 266.) Sir Halford
Mackinder wrote these lines after having briefly served as British High
Commissioner for South Russia in the civil-war year 1919: an experi–
ment in governing part of the East European "Heartland" he had
described in his geo-political essays fifteen years earlier. He was not
to know that two decades later another geo-politician would come
a cropper in Southern Russia; or that his own former employers, the
Webbs, would hail the Russian victory at Stalingrad as a world-historical
turning-point, and a confirmation (naturally) of their own faith in
rational organization. Such are a few among the avatars of a creed
whose
impact is not yet exhausted.
CORRECTION: This issue which is listed on the Tobie
of Contents as No.3, should be Volume XXX, No.2 .
IN COMING ISSUES OF PR
Documents 'of the Jewish Leadership
under the Nazis
Ignazio Silone on Contemporary Nihilism and Idolatry
Frank Kermode 'on The Modern Tradition
Daniel Bell on Hannah Arendt and the
Question of Responsibility
Interviews with Motherwell and Kline
Steven Marcus Ion Rornography
Fiction by Alan Friedman and Richard Stern
Reviews by Rufus Mathewson, Richard Poirier,
John Simon, and Elizabeth Young
AND TWO SPECIAL ISSUES:
New European Writing edited by Mary McCarthy
The Negro in America
