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and readers.
RED STAR OVER CUBA, by
Nathaniel Weyle, Devin-Adair,
222 pp., $4.50.
Reviewed by W. L. Schmidt
Remember the uprising of
Bogota in 1948? It was the first
bloody demonstration in this
hemisphere of Red militarism
and political power. Fidel Cas
tro played a part in it. In fact,
there were many civil upris
ings south of the border prior
to the rebel activities in which
he took active part. Yet, it has
been only within the last year
that the man with the beard
was generally considered a
communist. Some American
reporters, naively, or for the
sake of sensational news,
painted him a true liberator.
Many Americans believed in
him, then excused his massa
cres after he came to power
as not being of his doing, but
of the communists who unfor
tunately just happened to be
there. Others, like Mr. Weyle,
knew better.
Castro’s communist activities
date back to 1945. He espoused
communist causes at every op
portunity, even priding himself
of murders he had committed.
It is a blight on our State De
partment during the past dec
ade that Castro’s true color
was not known to it. Yet there
was an idle stand-by. The un
happy results are now with us.
Nathaniel Weyle, himself an
ex-communist, gives the story
of Castro, his sordid youth,
psychological bent, and the
near demented actions on
many occasions. Dates and
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names . . . names indeed that
will surprise the reader . . .
are given in profusion of sinis
ter events that took place the
last ten years.
“Time is not on our side,”
says Mr. Weyle. But with de
termination and effort, the
United States can take a hand
in the poverty stricken and
discontented areas to the south
of us. Leadership is demanded,
and a thorough understanding
of the Latin temperament, its
culture, hopes and problems.
We may lose the southern
hemisphere to Communism if
a thorough understanding is
not attempted and if action is
not taken soon.
REASON AND REVELA
TION IN THE MIDDLE AGES,
E. Gilson, Scribners, 99 pp.,
$1.25.
Reviewed by
Flannery O'Connor
These are three lectures de
livered by Gilson at the Uni
versity in 1937 on the relation
between theology and philoso
phy in the Middle Ages. Brief
ly he traces three spiritual
families which dominated
thought at one time or another
during the seven centuries that
make up the period, taking
first what he calls “the family
of Turtullian,” which gave the
primacy to faith, and showing
how the early conflict between
faith and reason was synthe
sized by St. Augustine. He
then discusses the origin of
modern rationalism, which en
tered the thought of the Mid
dle Ages with Averroes, and
the synthesis of its conflict
with faith, effected by St.
Thomas. He indicates that the
disasterous rise of nominalism
came about when the Thomis-
tic synthesis was ignored.
These lectures are an excel
lent introduction to Gilson’s
The Unity of Philosophical Ex
periences, a book indispensible
to an understanding of the
modern age. In addition to the
intellectual value of anything
written by Gilson, it is always
a pleasure to read him for the
vigor and lucidity of his style.
WITNESS TO GOD, by
Leonard Johnston, Sheed &
Ward, 1961, 174 pp., $3.50.
Reviewed by
Rev. Leonard F. X. Mayhew
It was St. Jerome, I believe,
who wrote that ignorance of
the Scriptures was ignorance
of Christ. These are a harsh
man’s characteristically harsh
words, perhaps a bit too ab
solute and unqualified. None
theless there is a very definite
sense in which they are liter
ally true and do not overstate
the case. The Church recog
nizes the Scriptures as the in
dispensable source not only of
her official teaching but of the
genuine Christian spirit for
each of us.
Sloth aside, the great mass
of Catholics avoid regular
reading of the Scriptures out
of a not unmerited awe of the
difficulty of understanding
clearly and correctly both the
general lines and the details of
the sacred text. Our hesitation
could not be better founded
since even St. Peter calls at
tention to the danger.
One of the most heartening
signs of the times in this re
gard is the ever-growing body
of solid, readable literature
available to the interested
Catholic. The prodigious pro
gress of Biblical science over
the past century is being fil
tered down and made avail
able to any literate and inter
ested person. Fr. Johnston’s
splendid book is a very wel
come addition to this work.
The author has chosen for
his theme the notion of Reve
lation, the divine witness
which the Scriptures were
to bear. He elucidates exactly
how this witness has been
borne by selections from the
outstanding figures of both
Old and New Testaments with
scrupulous fidelity to the data
of modern scholarship and
consistent reverence in his
treatment. His book offers one
more avenue of escape from
the damning sentence of St.
Jerome.
HEAVEN BY THE HEMS,
by Marina De Berg, Sheed &
Ward, 1961, 159 pp., $3.00.
Reviewed by
Jane M. Wallen
The author’s account of her
“two years and ten months’ of
happiness,” from stage to
cloister, is a strong and ap
pealing one — for those who
may be ready for exposure to
such experiences as hers. How
ever, her readers will, I fear,
number those who will be
shocked and their credulity
taxed by her accounts of the
mechanics of conventual life
M. De Berg’s vocation, apart
from her ill health which
caused her dismissal from the
Trappistine enclosure, was, at
least, an unconventional one.
Her story should do much to
dispell some misconceptions in
regard to the necessary quali
fications and requirements for
entering the convent.
Her sincerity m writing as
she has cannot be questioned
and, at times, she almost ap
proaches the mystical aura of
her fellow-Trappist, Thomas
Merton. She falls short in
lacking the definitive quality
of his work, however, and
thus her story emerges as a
confession rather than a prim
er of spiritual guidance.
Her resignation to the Will
of Her Beloved is an example
for all, within and without the
enclosure. The reader is left
praying for and speculating
about her subsequent life
which, in itself, should be suf
ficient commendation for her
effort.
MIDCENTURY, by John Dos
Passos, Houghton Mifflin, 1961,
$5.95.
Reviewed by
Elizabeth Hester
Between 1925 and 1936 John
Dos Passos wrote a trilogy of
novels which were published
collectively in 1937 under the
single heading USA. The cen
tral figure of this very large
book was not a single human
being but was, as the title im
plies, the people of the United
States. Mr. Dos Passos, who is
and was a fervent humanist,
devoted most of USA to de
scribing the heinous crimes of
Big Business and the sad
bloody troubles of Labor Un
ions. In essence, he was for
the little man and against
power seekers.
Already a great deal of com
ment has gone on record de
scribing Midcentury as a
complete about-face from the
stance , of USA. Not so. Mr.
Dos Passos remains for the
little man and against ruth
less manipulators for power,
whether operating in Big Busi
ness or in Unions. Above all,
he remains stanchly astride
the notion that somehow, some
way, we just need to work
hard and love one another. He
is bitter because we don’t, but
his suggestion as to what we
may do about it is frustrating-
ly nebulous.
Midcentury searingly de
scribes the alliance which
since World War II has grown
up between Bib Business and
gangsters who have come to
control many of the Unions.
It is still the little man who
is getting it in the teeth in
Dos Passos’ works. It is still
Mr. Dos Passos who is hopping
mad at that me-first attitude
in most men (little or larger)
that the Catholic philosophers
attribute to the effect of origi
nal sin. About this, Mr. Dos
Passos stews and stews. He
writes with virile adulation of
the isolated few who not only
are pure - in - heart, but who
have the superb courage to
sacrifice themselves in support
of their belief in decency. Mr.
Dos Passos is fond of saints,
though he is careful to dis
guise them.
The most extreme of the
humanists believe that man is
naturally pure - in- heart with
very little responsibility for
what he grows up to be; he
needs only a few material ad
vantages and a good example
to make him a beautiful fel
low. In 1925 Mr. Dos Passos
apparently entertained a modi
fied belief in this notion. But
in Midcentury he does seem to
have slightly revised this
utopian fancy. He now
assumes that man may have
some responsibility for his ac
tions. Unfortunately, he still
pleads for him to have it in
the name of comfort, the full
stomach, the uninhibited sex
life, and precisely those strict
ly materialistic values that,
with monotonous repetition,
century after century, have al
ways proved to be the very
seed of the irresponsible ac
tion. Since USA Mr. Dos Pas
sos may have changed, but not
much.
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