FAITH AND WORKS
TESTIMONY TO HILAIRE BELLOC, by Eleanor and Reginald Jebb; Methuen, English price 16/-. ILAIRE BELLOC was half-French by birth and even more French in his love and understanding of France. He entered Parliament in the Liberal
interest and regained the seat as an Independent. He attacked the system of donations to the funds of political parties, making a strong case against the secrecy attaching to their origin and use, and demanded an act for their Public Audit. (This reform has not yet reached New Zealand.) He resigned his seat the better to attack Parliamentary corruption. This he achieved successfully over the Marconi scandal in spite of a whitewashing Commission. He was a competent historian and an effective controversialist, and in this connection will best be remembered for his demolition of H. G. Wells’s Outline of History and (in connection with Edward Gibbon) his contribution on the Ebionites which was derived from sources available to’ Gibbon but neglected by his too trustful successors. He attacked the scandalous
sale of honours, and was offered himself the distinction of Companion .of Honour. He ,received Papal decorations for his defence of the Catholic Faith and was a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur. He was a poet and essayist of distinction. All these and other matters are duly set forth in this interesting and all too brief memoir by his daughter and son-
in-law.
F. J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 14
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