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...distort the facts of the greatest critical period of American history as to prove right wrong and wrong right." Calling the roll of historians who have written of Reconstruction, he brings charges of omission or bias against almost all, including the Beards, Claude Bowers, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and eleven school textbooks. In his bibliography Author Du Bois is even more exclusive, listing 28 standard works as anti-Negro, twelve as propaganda for the South, 25 as "Fair to Indifferent on the Negro," only 13 by historians who "have studied the history of Negroes and write sympathetically about them...
Thus Stanley Baldwin, himself a perfect John Bull in physical and mental makeup, announced as his program the Pax Britannica. In another fling at dictators, careless of enraging Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, the Prime Minister declared: "Dictators cannot gauge the currents of public opinion because public opinion and a dictatorship are self-contradictory. . . . You saw how quickly a dictatorship could move in the development of the German air force and in the swiftness with which the Ethiopian situation has arisen [see p. 16]. . . . Things like these make it more necessary that there should be stability. . . . Our stability is necessary...
They were reported to have agreed that: 1) the Mother Country is justified in greatly increasing her armaments, not to impose the Pax Britannica-that being somewhat out of date-but "to play an effective mediating rôle" in Europe; 2) the dominions expect Great Britain, if the necessity arises,to act in a European crisis even before she has opportunity to inform them fully of her policy; 3) each dominion in freedom under the Crown has the right to make its own decision whether or not to associate itself with the other Country's high policies...
Judge Carr is to be congratulated also upon his unusual grasp of the historical implication of the case. Citing the "Encyclopedia Britannica" and Mr. Bernard Sobel's "Burleycue--An Underground History of Burlesque Days" he announced that "burlesque has changed considerably since the days of Aristophanes and Sheridan." He is further to be congratulated upon his escape from picayuno technicalities in deciding that "it is unnecessary for me to determine the extent of the attire. . . If these were the ones they displayed heads and more or less of the bust. They were slightly clothed...
...Ramsay MacDonald and Foreign Minister Sir John Simon. Once again the intuition of Mr. Baldwin proved sound. Overnight almost the entire London Press did a complete somersault. Broadcast was the happy thought that Britain was again to shoulder her white man's burden, this time to impose the Pax Britannica upon the Saar. As one London evening paper observed with jocular gusto, "The only essential is that the troops shall be the best and smartest we have and that they shall be accompanied by their bands. A kilted regiment would be most impressive and a segment of pipers would...