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Apart from the basic misapprehension involved in its thesis. "The Heavenly city" is an excellent book. It is delightful to find a scholarly work on a profound subject written with such complete absence of pedantry. Professor Becker carries his learning lightly and the evident relish with which his sophisticated intellect exposes the "rationalizations" and illusions of the men who "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials" gives a fine zest to his book. "The Heavenly City" is a treasure-chest for the student of the Revolution and it ought...
...Nazi Party is pledged to so many things that it is pledged to nothing. Abolition of interest ("usury"), expulsion of Jews from Germany, confiscation of department stores and the parceling out of their different departments to small merchants: these are but three pledges mouthed at Nazi mass meetings. More basic are the Party's pledges to "scrap" the Treaty of Versailles and pay not a pfennig more in Reparations-but all German statesmen have those aims...
...American cynics of the twenties. The hero is a prig conceived to be representative of the insignificant conservative. The author explains, by the story, that the prig was so developed by being the son of an insignificant conservative prig, by being nurtured on insignificant priggish conservatism. The basic cause of the hero's state, and of that of his ancestors and descendants, is day-dreaming...
...Basic in European trade relations until very recently was the Franco-German Commercial Treaty signed Aug. 17, 1927 and afterward the model of many another. Covering roughly two-thirds of the items on French and German tariff lists, the treaty has stabilized rates on these items. Last week Germany and France amended their Treaty of 1927 to permit either party to raise or lower all but a few rates on 15 days notice. Thus they all but tore up a document hailed when it was signed as a. great stabilizer of European trade. Still more ominously they adopted...
Before the War the U. S. was entirely dependent on Chile for nitrates-basic ingredient of explosives and fertilizers. Last week France announced that U. S. producers of synthetic nitrates would receive a 10,000-ton order as their quota for the first quarter of 1933. With 50,000 tons already shipped in the first half of the fiscal year, U. S. producers (of whom the greatest by far is Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.) point with pride to the French orders as the largest ever exported by the U. S. to one country...