After Anger, What?

As a result of his conversations with Chinese groups in various communities, Mr. Caldwell believes that the most potent antidote to this huge propaganda effort is the story of what has happened in Formosa—in contrast to what has happened in Red China. He discusses the efficiency and inefficiency of American government agencies pretty fully, and gives most praise to our International Cooperation Administration, which is, at little expense but with great success, diverting the student tide from Red to Free China. This operation, almost unheard of in this country, Mr. Caldwell credits to Vice President Nixon’s initiative. The taxpayer, who will be horrified to read of the gross ignorance, blundering, apathy and defeatism of some American agents in Southeast Asia, will be heartened by this story.

The controversy about the Angry Young Men has become Britain’s literary argy-bargy of the decade. Who are they and what have they written? Let us agree to forget Colin Wilson, as we all must do in time, and stick to the “creative” writers. Those who constitute, as nearly as one can judge from here, the élite corps of belligerent beardlessness are John Wain, Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, Thomas Hinde and John Braine. They write about educated young men of the lower or lower-middle classes, perhaps themselves.

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As a result of his conversations with Chinese groups in various communities, Mr. Caldwell believes that the most potent antidote to this huge propaganda effort is the story of what has happened in Formosa—in contrast to what has happened in Red China. He discusses the efficiency and inefficiency of American government agencies pretty fully, and gives most praise to our International Cooperation Administration, which is, at little expense but with great success, diverting the student tide from Red to Free China. This operation, almost unheard of in this country, Mr. Caldwell credits to Vice President Nixon’s initiative. The taxpayer, who will be horrified to read of the gross ignorance, blundering, apathy and defeatism of some American agents in Southeast Asia, will be heartened by this story.

The controversy about the Angry Young Men has become Britain’s literary argy-bargy of the decade. Who are they and what have they written? Let us agree to forget Colin Wilson, as we all must do in time, and stick to the “creative” writers. Those who constitute, as nearly as one can judge from here, the élite corps of belligerent beardlessness are John Wain, Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, Thomas Hinde and John Braine. They write about educated young men of the lower or lower-middle classes, perhaps themselves.