Books: A Variety of Freedoms

FOREVER FREEDOM—Josiah C. Wedgwood and Allan Nevins—Penguin Books (25¢).

This little book includes practically every important literary allusion that has ever been made to human freedom. These quotations, says Co-Editor Josiah Wedgwood (who last week was shushed by the British and sent home to Britain because he said unkind things about Isolationist Senator Wheeler), "furnish both sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia;...

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