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...hard times in France deepen and are prolonged for another year or two, as there is plenty of unhappy evidence to indicate, then profound political changes can scarcely fail to result. The French people as a whole are psychologically unprepared to endure a long depression without vigorous reactions in one direction or another. . . . Frenchmen are harassed, perplexed and ill at ease and as yet they see no real gleam of light pointing a way out of the depression. They are divided amongst themselves but that division is too even to indicate an easy solution. . . . Even so the French system...
...remoteness, it makes no comment save that it has asked its Legation to secure an official report from Japan. This, of course, is the expected move. While awaiting the official statement, London will meditate with fasting and with prayer on its impending answer. In the meantime, it will probably deepen its concentration on possible methods of combatting the annoying increase of Japanese trade with India. Emerging from its anchoritic contemplation, London will point tactfully but firmly to treaty obligations, making game for each side, with China vulnerable...
Whittier's very name sounds to modern ears like the tremulous, piping voice of an aged Victorian. In a stout effort to deepen and dignify Poet Whittier's note Biographer Mordell writes this life of Whittier, the first in almost 30 years. Author Mordell denies that his hero was "a modest, mild and passionless saint," admits that he eventually became a "reactionary and religionist . . . harmless genial poet of the people," but reminds the reader that Whittier was also a "mil itant and radical agitator who was charged on a number of occasions with blasphemy and sedition. . . . This favorite...
...official Soviet reply last week was flatly to refuse apology, flatly to deny that Izvestia speaks for the Government (which all Soviet newsorgans do). Not backing down in the least, Izvestia hailed Persia's defiance of Britain last week declaring, "Its repercussions in the East will help deepen the cracks in the shattered structure of a decrepit British Empire...
...perspective on the conditions of life." President Park, of Bryn Mawr, declared to her students: "That the college gives to its best ability an education preparatory to living in its justification, and perhaps its only justification." Again quoting Mr. Lowell: "The object of cultural education is to broaden and deepen the range of thought; that of vocational to prepare for a particular use. The primary aim of the former is building the brain; that of the latter, storing it. These objects are not inconsistent, and both kinds of education produce both results, albeit to a different extent...