"They Disarmed Democracy"
The war books of men like Barbusse, Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, Erich Maria Remarque and Richard Aldington ... were books filled with passionate contempt for the statements of conviction, of purpose, and of belief on which the war of 1914-1918 was fought. The post-war writers whose work educated a generation to believe that all declarations and all beliefs are fraudulent, that all statements of conviction are sales talk, that nothing men can put into words is worth fighting forthose writers must face the fact that the books they wrote in the years just after the war have done more to disarm democracy in the face of Fascism than any other single influence.-(Archibald MacLeish, U.S. Librarian of Congress, in "The New Republic," New York)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 10
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125"They Disarmed Democracy" New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 10
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