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...been at the expense of that of other nations. In what is by all odds the most important chapter in the book he claims that it will not be the source of rivalries which might disrupt the peace of the world, because the increase in American exports has been almost entirely in specialties such as typewriters and automobiles in the production of which we are almost without competitors. The theory is open to objections, but it makes an ingenious justification of the expansionist policy that has dominated the Hoover regime...
...masque is of little consequence, and consists of a series of wrangles by a group of characters fancifully entitled Rabbot, Porcupine, Fox, etc., about inconsequential topics and the efforts of Thalia, the Rustic Muse, to restore peace. Around this outline are massed a series of natural descriptions, almost everyone of which is filled with this longing for solitude and repose...
There is a pallid beauty in many of these passages, and the songs which interrupt the action and contain the best poetry have other effective bits. But they are not enough to disguise the fact that the whole tenor of the piece is that of an almost unhealthy shrinking from activity and the life of the world. It is perhaps significant that the writer's favorite adjective and one which appears on nearly every page is "wan". "Thalia" is wan; it exists in a dream world of its own and lacks the vitality that is an essential part...
Cragadour remains the favorite in the Derby. Always in England the Derby vies in importance with any political event. This year the election was almost forgotten with 70 million dollars wagered on the race; with Cragadour, the favorite, sick of a stomach trouble and daily bulletins being issued on the state of his health; with the sudden scratching of the second favorite, Midlothian, because of the death of his owner, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, last of the Great Victorians and the man who succeeded Gladstone as Prime Minister...
...Prohibition in the inquiry, to make it only one of many elements to be scrutinized. To the agenda were added such matters as immigration violations, the jury system, anti-trust statutes, court procedure, narcotics, general disrespect for Law. In the President's re-explanations of the investigation, Prohibition dwindled almost out of sight...