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15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - New on Blu-Ray 'Bambi'... · 1 reply · +1 points

Has anyone else ever translated Bambi into English, besides Whittaker Chambers?

The Library of Congress lists different illustrators, after the initial set by Kurt Wiese, but the catalog does not mention (any) translators other than Whittaker Chambers for the book.

15 years ago @ Dictionary of Quotes - What God writes on you... · 0 replies · +1 points

Frédérick Jézégou: What is the chapter and verse citation for this quotation from the Koran, please?

16 years ago @ Big Government - Whittaker Chambers: Th... · 7 replies · -4 points

Dr. Snyder,

One of the strangest trends I've seen vis-a-vis my grandfather, Whittaker Chambers, is support for attacks on the New Deal by quoting him.

The passage you cite is the most quoted. The citation omits, however, a very important sentence:

"It is surprising how little I knew about the New Deal, although it had been all around me during my years in Washington." (Whitaker Chambers, _Witness_ [New York: Random House, 1952] p. 471)

Clearly then, Whittaker Chambers spoke about the New Deal with the caveat the he "knew little" about it (although he does speak at length about the New Deal there and elsewhere in _Witness_).

Why would those attacking the New Deal cite someone who has so clearly disqualified himself?

Much of the time, I see others quote the entire paragraph and then ignore that sentence in what they go on to write. In those instances, readers have at least some chance of catching my grandfather's disclaimer and weighing it against the rest of the quotation. Sadly, your citation does not afford readers that opportunity.

David Chambers |http://www.whittakerchambers.org/