Propaganda?

Since It was the threat of war which two years ago first made him think of suspending publication, and since that threat has not decreased, possibly Eliot intends to devote more intention to politics. Otherwise it is hard to say what form his "affirmations of life and policy" will take.

Eliot is a Rightist, but a Rightist with no sympathy for an order "in many respects inferior to that which threatens to supersede It." He stands for monarchism, Anglo-Catholicism, and other causes we may doubt the virtue of; but he also stands for honesty, culture and intelligence, in government as in Art. The affirmation of these values, in a world ruled by people who deny them, is the more important work, it seems to me, for which he has given up "The Criterion."