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...Reich has in principle already been accepted. I regret to have to reply to Your Excellency that as regards this point the theoretical recognition of principles also has been formerly granted to us Germans. In the year 1918 the armistice was concluded on the basis of the Fourteen Points of President Wilson, which in principle were recognized by all. They, however, in practice were broken in the most shameful...
Roberts has arranged the journals in the order of their historical importance, placing the most valuable ones at the front of the book. The first is the diary of Lieut. John Montresor, a British officer, who scouted the course which Arnold's party took fourteen years later. It is accurate on the whole with regard to details of geography, except for the fateful omission of any mention of the huge swamps around Rush and Spider Lake. Arnold, using this diary as his guidebook, almost lost his entire army in the uncharted bogs...
...dollars, C. J. Devine & Co. is said to handle more Government bonds than all its rivals put together. Last week C. J. Devine & Co. was busy, for the Treasury offered its first new money financing in the open market in over a year-$400,000,000 of twelve-to-fourteen-year 2½%, bonds (maturing Sept. 15, 1952, issued in denominations ranging from $50 to $100,000) and $300,000,000 of 1⅛% notes(maturing from June 15, 1943, issued in denominations from $100 to $100,000).* Holders of $433.460.000 of 1¼% Treasury notes maturing December 15 were...
POEMS NEW AND SELECTED-Melville Cane-Harcourt, Brace ($2). One hundred and fourteen dissolutely inconsequential lyrics by an American connoisseur of Imagism...
...WRITINGS OF E. M. FORSTER-Rose Macaulay-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Fourteen years after Forster's novel, A Passage To India, his slow-growing reputation has landed him solidly among the best contemporary English novelists. Author Macaulay makes a sensitive analysis of Forster's fiction, a weaker analysis of his critical writing, is both baffled and protective in dealing with his abandonment of fiction for fugitive social and literary criticism...