February 1941
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Articles
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part II
‘Violence was indeed all I knew of the Balkans,’ writes Rebecca West, ‘all I knew of the South Slavs. And since there proceeds steadily from the southeastern corner of Europe a stream of events which are a danger to me, which indeed for years threatened my safety and deprived me forever of many benefits, that is to say I know nothing of my own destiny. The Balkan Peninsula was only two or three days distant, yet I had never troubled to go that short journey, which might explain to me how I shall die, and why.’ So it was that in 1937 Rebecca West, with her husband, set out to explore the Balkans, and particularly Yugoslavia, to see for herself why the fate of the Continent and of England has so often been threatened by the Powderkeg of Europe. The story she brought back with her annihilates distance, and touches every thoughtful reader.
A Worn Path
A short story
Out of the Night
War and Peace in Soviet Diplomacy
The Soviet Power
The Dual State
Juggernaut Over Holland
Singapore: An American Problem
Inside Japan
A Judge Comes of Age
With Wings as Eagles
The Giant Joshua
The Cock of Heaven
Come In
Big Business and Defense
Families
George Eliot and John Chapman
China Shall Rise Again
Living by Deficit
Fighting the Flu
English Pilot: A Letter
London Bells
Women on the Spot
Editor in Politics
The Captives
Letter to Elizabeth Mayer
Redirecting Americans
The Silent Drum
Collected Poems of Kenneth Fearing
Geography in Human Destiny
The Kipling That Nobody Read
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
In the Shadow of Lincoln's Death
What the Church Can Do
Wine From Our Grapes
And in the Human Heart
We Never Threw Anything Away
Homage to Miss Sanderson
Talk
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