Born into a cultured English family, father an art critic and a painter, both with of intellectual friends, "spent his childhood amongst people who encouraged the appre-ition of beauty, stressed the neces-
thought, and let him do pretty mud of reasonableness and clarity of as he pleased. School at Leighton Park, where and, he read widely, the General Election of 1922 the Labour Party became the was- converted to social-months at the Sorbonne I consider good and rational, in effect, an act resulting in the maximum of pleasure and the minimum of pain for the mass of people affected.
There will be many who disagree with Julian Bell's sentiments, but it will be difficult not to admit, having read the book, that there has occurred much to strengthen his arguments, and that pacifism's beautiful but unpractical barque may have to be temporarily abandoned for a vessel more adapted to battle with totalitarian storms, more capable of withstanding the onslaughts of modern dictatorships.—D.B.D.H.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.