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...world. Contrary to Carlyle's bright hopes, a united and powerful Germany proved neither noble nor patient. Twice Bismarck's heirs burst across their borders in cataclysmic wars that ended with two new superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, facing each other across a divided continent???a division dramatically symbolized by the hideous masonry of the Berlin Wall. A quarter of a century after the end of World War II, no European peace treaty has been written, and, in a very real sense, the results of the war have not been resolved. Willy Brandt is in effect seeking...
...Significance. Under and over the chatter of the busy nation, behind business-noise and play-noise, are heard the real voices of the continent??? Frost and Robinson in New England, Sandburg and Lindsay in the Midwest. The Far West has been silent since Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, John Muir. Now Jeffers is heard, unmistakably powerful, individual, a true racial poet chanting on his high Pacific headland...
...soaring price of wheat, however gratifying to U.S. hollers and growers, is proportionally alarming to consumers. Labor in this country is prosperous enough not to feel the higher cost of bread unduly, but in Great Britain and the Continent???particularly perhaps in Austria ? the soaring cost of breadstuffs constitutes a serious economic, social and even political problem. With predictions of $2.50 wheat in the present movement, it is likely that this consumer situation may grow worse before it becomes better...
...Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation, headed by Herbert C. Hoover, is selecting plans for a group of dormitories on the American plan to be erected at the University of Brussels. John Mead Howells, consulting architect, claimed for the program recently that it would encourage " college spirit " on the Continent???something which, for better or worse, the Continent has so far got along without...
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