Christopher Hitchens, Romantic - Reason Magazine

Christopher Hitchens, Romantic - Reason Magazine: " “On examination, and to my own surprise and pleasure, it turned out be exhilaration. Here was the most frightful enemy—theocratic barbarism—in plain view.” The passage virtually replicated a section in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Officers and Gentlemen, in which the main character, Guy Crouchback, an anti-communist Catholic, reacts with elation to news of the Soviet-German Pact of 1939."