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Owen McMahon Johnson, novelist (The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Stover at Yale, Children of Divorce), announced last week (apropos his latest novel, Sacrifice): "Second marriages are happier than first marriages. The new form of divorce-I call it 'amicable divorce'-is on a friendlier basis and much easier on the children...
...Following Germany's Revolution, he helped found the Democratic Club in Berlin but did not leave diplomacy for politics. The rise of Germany's new democracy sent him to Rome as first councilor of the Embassy, where his firm amiability in-clined many a Fascist to a friendlier view of German republicanism. Leaving Italy for the U. S., he rose at a banquet given him by his Roman friends to talk about the "understanding" he hoped to promote in Washington. "My house there," he said, "shall always be open to everyone...
...Englishmen . . . are indifferent to art, and especially to sculpture, if their tastes can be judged by the monuments they tolerate. I am going back to America with an open mind . . . it is a friendlier country to artists than England...
...While I was in Paris, I talked with M. Herriot about the Ruhr evacuation and the release of the German Ruhr prisoners. From this talk and talks with many other Frenchmen I derived the impression that the feeling in France toward Germany is far friendlier than before. If M. Herriot stays in power, complete evacuation of the Ruhr is bound to come soon. Already he has promised economic evacuation...
...Turk;" and its advantage lies in the fact that an era of good feeling is made possible by America's renunciation of the humiliating concessions which have been forced from Turkey in the past. Coupled with the treaty provisions which permit American vessals to cruise in Turkish waters this friendlier feeling should prove a stimulus to the gradually expanding Turkish American trade...