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...writer, who instinctively differentiates between the hawk of living and the handsaw of existing. He appears to have lived considerably himself, in unusual ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. He knows what it is like to pot German soldiers scaling a garden wall; to ski in the Tyrol; to bum on Canadian freight trains; to be in love, just at first and then really...
Having but a year ago transferred from the administration of Obregon to that of Calles by peaceful and constitutional means, the Mexican Government is now striving to complete its sovereignty. It governs an agricultural nation of industrial resources, inhabited by an uneducated and half-breed population. To its credit it has international recognition and several years of warless existence. Its task is to solve severe problems dealing with stability, national unity, racial peace, popular education and, not loast, agrarian comfort and natural resources...
When will Americans become conscious that the nation to the north of them is something more than a setting for absurd half-breed plays, a hunting wilderness or a place to get a drink...
...thought may ultimately be one large branch of them, under military control or on a military basis would be to make the same mistake which, properly or improperly, the world believes Prussia to have made in the last generation. The union of civil and military air activities would breed distrust in every region to which our tension." commercial aviation sought extension...
There are people who declare that "Protestant" and "Catholic" are terms used to distinguish alien faiths, and if they breed at all, their child must be a sterile creature, without pride of parentage or hope of progeny. Yet in New Haven last week met a body of venerable prelates who boldly assert that they are not Protestants, although they refuse to recognize that the Pope is anything more than a pompous sort of Bishop; who quietly deny that they are Roman Catholics, although they use in their worship all the ancient magnificence of phrase, splendors of scarlet and black...