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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands in holy horror, pretend that the giving of all of it to his partner in treaty making would be incompatible with the public interest. . . . This is the question and it cannot be avoided by a half-quotation from Washington which is utterly set at naught by the full context nor by any pretense of safeguarding delicate international secrets...
...that scholar and poet walk so happily together, although one detects a certain timidity on the part of the latter. For instance, Mr. de la Mare immediately warns us that the songs were composed for dramatic and practical purposes. There is danger in scrap-booking them out of their context and the conditions that made and found them so luckily essential...