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...national policy, it seems to me, must not be Government ownership. The capitalistic system has its defects of course???periods of enforced unemployment are perhaps the worst?but it has centuries of evolutionary growth back of it, and under it we have come to lead the nations of the world in every form of progress. I do not believe in crippling...
Captain Lenin, Captain Trotsky and today Captain Stalin have never been afraid to alter Russia's course???the course of over one-seventh of the world?by a sudden titan's tug at the helm. Last week Captain Stalin tugged...
...always with insight, often in words assembled like so many pearls; but not, on the whole, in a manner to sustain interest. Apparently the abridgment was intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course???like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book is simply what its author pleases the public shall read; and such is the nature...
...whole fate supposedly depending on the signing of the Pact, Foreign Minister Vandervelde was obliged to refuse to shake hands with Premier Mussolini. His Belgian Socialist constituents forbade him to take the hand that they considered had oppressed and murdered Italian Socialists. Aside from this incident?hushed up of course???M. Vandervelde furthered Locarno with his uttermost efforts...
...Significance. A vivid, swift-footed description of youth's perennial first assault upon life?written with beauty, humor and fire. A younger generation that is not Fitzgerald's treated from a new angle and without professional flapperisms. Faults of course???occasional over-writing?occasional lapses into adolescent unreality?but on the whole a first novel that does not need the usual "displays great promise" critical lifeline?a first novel that should interest a wide and diverse public...