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...justified the move as a means of assimilating foreigners into the national life, and of helping to stop the drain on foreign exchange. But to Argentina's large (40,000) and tweedy British colony, and to its small, compact contingent of North American businessmen, the proposal was an unmistakable slap...
Hitler and His Admirals is a compact and interesting book. It is particularly valuable for its underlining of German attitudes quite apart from the naval war: Hitler's fury at Italy's untimely invasion of Greece, his fear of U.S. opinion, the lack of understanding in Germany of what was happening in other countries...
...said of any author that his early life was a preparation for writing, it can be said of Francis Parkman. The 13 volumes of his masterwork, France and England in North America (now skillfully reduced to one compact volume), appeared over a period of 27 years, beginning in 1865. But they had been forming in his notebooks, for 24 years before that...
...Sartre has written "Red Gloves" with an objective eye on the conflict between the two arguments represented by the assassin and the leader. It is not so tersely-written or compact a play as "No Exit", neither is it as outlandishly unrealistic and clumsy as "The Respectful Prostitute." Except for the sudden flaming-up of the love between the leader and the wife which seemed as if it had only just been scribbled on the margin of the script, M. Sartre has written a play that American playwrights could be well to study...
...this stripe have yet to articulate in compact, coherent fashion a conservative declaration of faith, and probably because of popular misconceptions concern- ing the meaning of conservatism, this is a job to be left to the professors. But their speeches and their votes indicate that they understand true conservatism and are prepared to work for it in practical ways--voting for extensions of social security, Federal aid to education, social development of natural resources. Instead of opposing all social legislation out of hand they are, most of them, always thinking up something new, using a new mechanism (i.e. the federal...