Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal made by the United States for a mixed commission to investigate Germany's financial status disappeared under a cloud when France refused to accept in full its working conditions. Now it has reappeared under a new aspect. After a great juggling of diplomatic pawns and castles, the layout of the board appears to be as follows: the English government under the pressure of its public's desire for action has joined with France practically on the latter's terms; the United States, having been at first so downright, feels unable to do this but President Coolidge, to back...
...glass, he is not only symbolical of the idea of Mr. Anderson's novel but of the strange and exaggerated narcissism of the younger realists. In the face of such aberrations, a pen such as Julian Street's or Booth Tarkington's takes on the aspect of an Excalibur...
These hegiras are by no means philanthropic gestures on the part of Paris. Nor are the visits solely sordid adventures to separate America from a horde of War-won dollars. Though this latter aspect has, of course, certain elements of probability, word comes from Paris: "The Americans shall not think we simply come for money. C'est pour l'honneur de la France...
...political aspect of the former Prince's return to Germany is, of course, important. Chancellor Stresemann was reported to have given the permission as a " sop" to the reactionaries. The Prince himself is no doubt anxious to settle down and farm his estate at Oels, since it is very much in his interest to do so; but, with reactionism in the ascendency, he is likely to have a hard time in maintaining a neutral attitude. Moreover, it was reported with some veracity that if the Prussian and Imperial Crowns were offered to him, he would be the last...
...Zangwill really feels this way, it will do no harm to his audience to hear stnoera criticism rather than polite nothings. And after all Mr. Zangwill, like Shaw's Caesar, may have been speaking on an empty stomach. A good dinner might change America's whole aspect...