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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise award of the 1946 Nobel literary prize to an old German named Hermann Hesse will seem more of a surprise to those who read this book of his. Steppenwolf (The Wolf of the Steppes), first printed in Germany in 1927 and in the U.S. in 1929, has long been out of print, and is now brought out again to cash in on the Nobel publicity. It is a repellent example of that beery old thing, German Romanticism, being sick in the last ditch before Naziism...
...Washington Columnist Thomas L. Stokes went the third annual Clapper Memorial Award, named for Stokes's good friend and onetime boss, the late Raymond Clapper. Said the citation of conscientious Tom Stokes: "Crusading spirit . . . tackles controversial issues . . . fairness in reporting both sides...
President Conant entrains this morning for Atlantic City, where it is rumored he will receive the American Educational Award for 1946 tonight. Following this, he will address the American Association of School Administrators there...
...Teach less from textbooks, more from "personal experience." 26. The winner of the Wendell Willkie One World Award began a powerful series of broadcasts...
Economically, the major issues are twofold-the maintenance of economic barriers among the various zones of occupation; and the question of reparations and how they are to be paid. The Russians are expected to demand an immediate award of ten billion dollars worth of German goods in accordance with their claim that Britain and the United States have already seized German assets to the sum of several billion dollars. Mr. Molotov can also be expected to insist upon a speeding up of industrial removals within the three western zones of occupied Germany...