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Entry: WFB--A Leader Who Lost His Way Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/wfb_a_leader_who_lost_his_way#18911 Post contents: Taki´s grandfather was a child of a tradition that has been virtually extinguished in America. Mencken termed the southern landowners who lost the Civil War the only aristocracy America ever possessed. Ezra Pound found a country led by J.P. Morgan, who profited from the sale of defective rifles to the Union army, extremely distasteful. British historian A.L. Rowse made the extremely pertinent observation about the British and their reaction to Hitler. The accomodationists with Hitler were mostly men of industrial and financial backgrounds and did not have the hereditary sense of security of the state that Churchill, Eden and the Cecils had. The Chamberlains did not have the toughness of the 18th century aristocracy as they were the end products of the ascendancy of upwardly striving Victorian middle class which was deeply inbred with humbug and high-mindedness. Buckley along with his Manhattan friends define conservatism and civility strictly in terms of money. They may have railed against communism, but lacked the courage and sense of sacrifice for their sons and themselves to confront this evil doctrine on the battlefield. Sent at: 2008 11 23