stumbled upon in my studies...

[agravaine]

"In the 1930's when the Great Depression was at its height many writers who had hitherto shown no interest in political theory suddenly discovered Marx and Lenin and were tremendously impressed by what they read about Communist regime in Russia. Other writers, including Ezra Pound, embraced a Fascist or a Nazi ideology. Most of these writers were destined to be disillusioned by a rapid and momentous sequence of events: the Anschluss with Austria, appeasement at Munich, the rape of Czechoslovakia, the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, the invasion of Poland and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Our writers, like so many other Americans, had to learn the hard way that American democracy with all its imperfections in practice is yet something very precious that we must be prepared to fight for and, if need be, give our lives to preserve for our children and grandchildren."
~~~Jay B Hubbell, November 17, 1959.
Southern Life and Fiction
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1960. pg. 23

"You don't care for humanity but think they are to be improved. I love humanity but know they are not."

Joseph Conrad