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Second; how is democracy today surviving under fire in England and the Empire? The answer is, admirably. Not only is personal liberty interfered with less than in many neutral nations, but a new spirit of solidarity and unselfishness has arisen that is inspiring to behold. The structure of old England is being shot away, but the first parts to go are the old snobbery and caste consciousness, and there is very hope that England will emerge from this fight, as from the last, more truly democratic than ever before...
...even the often interesting French cult of the soil is present. Absurdly mangled sub-titles assure you that the life of the French Canadians is, down at its firm and far-reaching roots, beautiful to behold. But blizzards and wolf-chewed corpses, ignorance and superstition, somewhat vitiate this argument. See Nazis for a better presentation...
...Harmony and Tranquillity." Opening the 60th annual convention of A. F. of L. in New Orleans, last week, President William Green crowed: "There is harmony and tranquillity here. . . . Behold the contrast as we look this morning to a city beside the sea, where a rebel group is meeting...
...Behold there shall arise after them seven years of famine" were the words of Joseph to the Pharaoh back in the land of Egypt. On the greensward of the Stadium today the Crimson jerseyed Har-low-vards are out to put an end to the seven lean years, the seven years of famine which Harvard football has suffered at the hands of the Big Green from Hanover...
...speaks of Harvard as the most articulate pro-Ally university. Then he attempts to discover who controls Harvard in order to find a rational basis for the interventionist speeches of its President and some of its professors. Lo and behold, the House of Morgan becomes the major bogeyman because of its supposed control of the Corporation and Overseers since the turn of the century. Granted this conclusion, which cannot be factually substantiated, then President Conant must whip up moral enthusiasm behind intervention in order to protect foreign investments and thus maintain or increase endowments. Harvard and other universities...