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...love and learning." CYRANO-Cameron Rogers-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON-Dmitri Merezhkovsky-Dutton ($3). THE PHANTOM EMPEROR: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American combination. But U. S. play-goers who have seen Walter Hampden act the Parisian smash of 1897, Edmond Rostand's lyrical Cyrano de Bergerac, have gained an inkling of what 17th Century France was like. For swaggering, fork-tongued Gascon Cyrano actually lived, and in those melodramatic days. The Rogers biography reveals...
...Ramsay MacDonald's recent visit to this country was made with a view toward discussion frankly and openly the points at issue with regard to an Anglo-American understanding," he continued. "Agreement in principle between England and America is merely prerequisite to a larger international understanding, and no international naval disarmament could be successful until the differences between the United States and Great Britain had been smoothed...
...exchange of views on naval reduction has brought the two Nations so close to agreement that the obstacles in previous conferences arising out of Anglo-American disagreements seem now substantially removed. . . . We have been able to end, we trust forever, all competitive building between ourselves . . . by agreeing to a parity of fleets, category by category...
Thus did Charles Gates Dawes, new-fledged Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, shrewd, Rooseveltian master of the art of self-projection, greet the British nation last week. The international air had suddenly become filled with clouds of incense and Anglo-American goodwill. Prime Minister MacDonald was planning to go and talk with President Hoover about naval disarmament. Astute Mr. Dawes made it clear that he would try to keep beatific sentiment from cloying by playing his role of hustling, plainspoken, rough-diamond American...
...next meeting, on Monday, Professor C. K. Webster of the University of Wales will speak on Anglo-American relations and imperialism...