AN IRISHMAN ON AMERICA
Can America Last? By Ignatius Phayrc. John Murray. 309 pp. (10/6 net.) Ignatius Phayrc is a lively, maleI volent, inaccurate, cocksure, bombastic, and very amusing Irishman, His defamations of some eminent Americans are great reading. But how much does he really know about America? Sometimes he shows insight. Sometimes, as in his panegyric on Nicholas Murray Butler, he is strangely obtuse. And was it not Ignatius who said so often and so impatiently in English periodicals before the last presidential election that in due course Mr Hoover would be re-elected?
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21116, 17 March 1934, Page 15
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