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...resolutions were then moved; one calling upon the Government to accept the offer of C. R. Das, a leader of the Indian Swaraj (home rule) movement, to cooperate with the Indian Government; the other, a motion expressing the belief that the Sudan question (TIME, Oct. 6) should be settled by the League of Nations and that Britain should give Egypt full independence...
...this brilliant Jew was chosen from among a host of hereditary British statesmen to represent the Emperor in India, the highest and most responsible administrative position which the Crown has to offer. During his term of office, he has had to contend with Gandhi, Das and other nationalist leaders; and, in spite of being entirely out of sympathy with the Montague-Chelmsford reforms (progressive Indianization and autonomy within the Commonwealth), he has proved himself a patient, able and sagacious pilot in one of the most threatening storms that have beset the ship of India...
...Mais, non. Impossible!" "Aber ja, das ist wirklich wahr!" screamed the French and Germans at each other...
Interrupted by a bitter and irrelevent crescendo of musketry, the music of Richard Wagner ceased, in 1917, to be heard at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. This winter has been revived The Ring of the Nibelungen-famed cycle which includes Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Between the date of interruption and the date of this revival, a number of Wagner operas have been presented at the Metropolitan. Die Walkure was revived with eclat in 1921, Siegfried in 1924. Yet these performances have been isolated in the flood of Italian melody: Lucia, Aida, Tosca, Rigoletto. Now among such pretty pieces...
...Das Rheingold. To the river-nymphs who lodge in twilight on the Rhine's green bottom, comes Alberich, a dwarf, whose ears have been pierced with the sweetness of their music and whose eyes have been dazzled by the gold over which they watch. In mockery they tell him that, if he forswears love, he will have power to steal the Rheingold; that if he steals the Rheingold, he will "own the world and all its mighty power." Alberich scrambles to the gold, curses love, vanishes. He has his brother Mime hammer the gold into a helmet which makes...