![]() ![]() The plot centered on an imaginary day in the future when over a million refugees from India’s poverty and squalor, on board hijacked ships, arrive off the coast of southern France. I can’t remember any of the reviewers predicting that Raspail’s plot would actually become a reality in our lifetimes. ![]() That’s what everyone thought of the book at the time, that it was imagery, an allegory of the impact of liberal internationalism on the soul of Western man. I can remember galloping through it in a single day, caught up in the power of Raspail’s imagery. One of the most talked about books in conservative circles in the mid-1970s was The Camp of the Saints by French author Jean Raspail. ![]()
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