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...Nazi intellectuals, The Decline of the West is perhaps the most misunderstood of the influential books of the 20th Century. Last week a U. S. disciple of Spengler, Edwin Franden Dakin, selected and expounded the most currently relevant 15% of Spengler's text. Today and Destiny ap peals to the U. S.'s weakness for digests. It also appeals to the U. S.'s apprehension for its national future on a quaking planet. Far more than the shrill, prolix nonsense of Mein Kampf (U. S. sales: 197,500), Spengler makes profitable U. S. reading...
There are now three meatless days a week in Free France, but food rationing has not become universally effective. Alcoholic regulations are effective. The apéritif is outlawed. On three days a week no other spirits are served. France, whose world reputation for temperance was belied by her world's record of one saloon for every 80 men, women and children, is a much soberer country today...
...cluded: "All that happened was that I learned a sense of proportion. ... I had the best time I ever had in any institution, committed more crimes and follies, led the forces of rebellion and disorder . . . and, because of a dozen dry words spoken haphazardly by one man, suffered no ap parent ill effects from...
...Pope Pius XII, and left Rome for the U. S. Few thought ailing Envoy Taylor would ever return. But the Holy See's diplomacy, canniest in the world, had already taken a step to neutralize the effects of his departure. Day before the Taylor farewell the Pope ap pointed Monsignor Joseph Patrick Hurley, only U. S. member of his Secretariate of State, as Bishop of St. Augustine...
...unless the preference in private industry for hiring younger men changes." Second, "there appears to be a distinct prejudice against hiring workers who have been on relief. This prejudice may be attributed to some extent to the idea, which still purists, that there is something wrong with anyone who ap- plies for relief. But it is partly due to the belief that work relief affects adversly the skill and morale of its recipients...