SHAME THE DEVIL
DEVIL’S DECADE. By Collin Brooks. Maodonald and Co. Ltd. (Oswald-Sealy N.Z, Ltd.). HE delineation of an epoch in British life by the biographies of its principal figures is the task Collin Brooks sets himself. The Devil’s Decade is, of course, no other than the nineteen-thirties. From his vantage-point in Fleet Street or thereabouts (Mr. Brooks is editor of the English Truth and a lion of the City view of finance) he has watched the procession of the great and the good pass him by, tremding, one fears, in a generally downward direction, although the end ef the decade is at least partially wrested from the devil’s grasp by the decision to fight rather than submit. The point of view in politics is that of a disabused Conservative who has outgrown Baldwin, admires Churchill (but with some hints of caution), and can find good reasons to defend Chamberlain. He despises Eden who, he felt, was too much given to uttering threats ‘there was never the force to back up. Mr. Brooks writes with assurance of Montagu Norman, Schacht, Hatry, and Kreuger. (He has a good deal of sympathy for Hatry.) Kings, newspaperowners, playwrights, conductors, actors, and novelists he is equally prepared to pass judgment upon in a book that valiantly attempts to include something for everybody. The "inside" story, sometimes apt, often combating the popular judgment, is his specialty. All his people have one thing in common: they are all already very famous.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 465, 21 May 1948, Page 12
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247SHAME THE DEVIL New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 465, 21 May 1948, Page 12
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