Volume 11, Number 2 · August 1, 1968
High on Guilt
By Neal Ascherson
Aden, Arabie
by Paul Nizan, with a Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Joan Pinkham
Monthly Review Press, 159 pp., $6.00
Confessions of a Disloyal European
by Jan Myrdal
Pantheon, 201 pp., $4.95
One of the Germans who was there talked about the Evangelical scenes which took place at the London School of Economics in June, when student revolutionaries from the continent burst into the place and set up court. The British students milled around and asked what they must do to be saved. Some wanted action, wanted to storm a newspaper building, quoted Che on the revolutionary's duty to make revolution. Others said plaintively that there was nothing to revolt against. 'There was this nice guy who got up and said that in English society it all went so smoothly and there was no police provocation and not much fascist behavior and liberalism sort of worked, and you know he was more or less crying, and said: 'I must have an answer: what shall we do?' '
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