Can These Things Be! 0 Reviewshttp://books.google.com/books/about/Can_These_Things_Be.html?id=xd0KPxrb4V8C Seldes Press, Mar 30, 2007 - 440 pages Text extracted from opening pages of book: NEW YORK APR! L CAN THESE THINGS BE! GEORGE SELDES Author of You Can't Print That PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY BREWER, WARREN * PUTNAM The Truth About Terrorism The Spectrum of Terror The Twilight of Dictators The Red World Plot The Black World Plot EuropePreparingforFinalWar The Peace-Weary Balkans Germany's Gas War Prepara tions The Truth about the Lipari Islands Europe's Youth Corrupted for War The Truth Behind the Censorship Fascism corrupts the world press European Press corruption and America Bunkum in the American press Truth and the Reporter Catholic Church Censorship Seipel's Plan for Holy Roman Empire The Truth About Dictators and Others The Great Mussolini Myth Isadora Duncan and her Love Letters Carol: Prince Hamlet of the Balkans The Great Men of our Time Adventures in Truth How I captured StMihiel Birthpangs of the German Republic so Deserta of psychoanalysis in Vienna A King in Afghanistan COPYRIGHT, 1931, BY GEORGE SELDES All rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book or any portion thereof Second printing, April 1931 To my friends and colleagues the American and British correspondents on service abroad CONTENTS PART I THE TRUTH ABOUT TERRORISM The Spectrum of Terror 1 1 The Twilight of Dictators 3 1 The Red World Plot 49 The Black World Plot 69 Europe Preparing for Final War 97 The Peace-Weary Balkans 127 Germany's Gas War Preparations 135 The Truth about the Liparian Islands 149 Europe's Youth Corrupted for War 167 PART II THE TRUTH BEHIND THE CENSORSHIP Fascism corrupts the world press 195 European Press corruption and America 219 Bunkum in the American press 241 Truth and the Reporter 259 Catholic ChurchCensorship 277 SeipePs Plan for Holy Roman Empire 287 PART III THE TRUTH ABOUT DICTATORS AND OTHERS The Great Mussolini Myth 297 Isadora Duncan and her Love Letters 319 Carol: Prince Hamlet of the Balkans 333 The Great Men of our Time 349 PART IV ADVENTURES IN TRUTH How I captured St. Mihiel 375 Birthpangs of the German Republic 389 Arabia Not So Deserta 399 Wreckage of Psychoanalysis in Vienna 4o9 A King in Afghanistan 425 I. THE TRUTH ABOUT TERRORISM Democracy is dead'* Mussolini Freedom is a bourgeois prejudice Lenin Congressman Huddleston: Is this resolution broad enough to include Fascism? Congressman Snell: Include what? Congressman Huddleston: Fascism. Fascism. Congressman Snell: I don't know what that is ... I am afraid your anxiety about youth is justified . . . Europe is in a bad way and humanity I am afraid is in for a rotten time unless we get a better leadership . ., Sir Philip Gibbs, in a letter to the writer The old battles for freedom of thought and freedom of speech, which it was thought had been definitely won, will have to be fought all over again, since most men are only willing to accord freedom of opinions which happen to be popular. ... In internal as in external affairs, the worst enemy of freedom is war Bertrand Russell I RED, BLACK WHITE, BROWN TERROR RULES EUROPE Continent still in the hands of dictators who maintain themselves by guns. Democracy and parliaments are weak STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY CONTINUES Violence cost l, 5oo, ooo lives since Armistice; Siberian wastes and Italian desert islands filled with prisoners; Russian Chekah head defends terror. Kemal Pasha succeeds JUSTICE having triumphed in 1918, all the troubles of this world having been settled in aconference of great states men, a series of internal wars began in almost all the nations of Continental Europe. Parties fought government, class fought class, dictator fought would-be dictators or the mass-majority, , politicians and generals organized illegal armies and engaged in wars, suppressed people fought for liberty, men and womeirf fought for bread and egomaniacs fought for power. In Germany, Russia and Italy the greatest combats took place; in the Balkans and Turkey civil wars continued. From the day of the signature of the peace treaties in Paris up to the nea |
