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...During the last seven years I ... have gone through deep waters because of the chaotic conditions in China. ... All these things have made me see my own inadequacy. More than that, all human insufficiency. To try to do anything for the country seemed like trying to put out a great conflagration with a cup of water...
...happy-go-lucky Socialist deputy who edits La Vanguardia goes laughing away from Chamber sessions to a small dark office in Socialist Party headquarters, swivels before a chaotic desk, attends to the business of paper and party, talks to his friends, licks his pencil and turns out opposition editorials so ironic, incisive and adroit that even his enemies read them. Critica, nearest in spirit to good American newspapers, is a hard-hitting sheet with several editions; in its city room there is more noise and less paciencia than in most. La Prensa, which has 16 editorial writers...
...could look upon a relief map of American ideas, it would become entirely obvious that there is no level ground in the United States. There is no common plain of basic beliefs and doctrines. The South would appear as rough terrain, unshaped and untilled; the North as chaotic, volcanic land, constantly changing, never settled. Yet our mapmakers deceive us with their shiny flat charts of common ideals, freedom for all, malice towards none. They make war on those who would alter this idealistic map and make speeches against those who might threaten their imaginative portraits. But in all their speeches...
...happen in Germany, as the war drawn to a close? Will there be a revolt of the army or its officers against the Nazi Party? Or a civilian uprising in Germany? Probably not. Communism? Possibly sporadic efforts to establish it. More likely, however, there will be more or less chaotic conditions after the Nazi totalitarian machine has ben destroyed and its leaders have been assassinated, or taken to flight or hiding, or handed over to be punished as war criminals...
With controversy and dissension seething in their ranks, the Board of Editors of the CRIMSON spent last night in chaotic attempts to christen this paper. Individual enthusiasm for many of the hundred-odd names received was a commonplace, but on none of them could a majority agree...