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...piece of furniture older than 30 years, it has probably been imported from Croatia or somewhere else. We Serbs had to fight, and time and again we have lost everything in defense of our honor and our integrity. The Croats-well, they still have their furniture." The German Minister, Georg Viktor von Heeren, rushed to the Foreign Office to bluster. Old Dr. Nintchitch gave him exactly six minutes to speak his piece...
...lectures, to be held at 4 o'clock in the large lecture room of the Semitic Museum, will be: February 14, "The Secret of the Pyramids," by Professor Georg Steindorff, formerly of the University of Lolpzig; March 13, "Recent Excavations in Syria," by Harald Ingholt, of the University of Aarhus, Denmark; and March 21, "Phoenician and Punic Remains in Sardinia," by Professor Doro Levi, formerly of the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, at present Recorder for the Princeton Excavations at Antioch...
...Practical" men always scorn the philosopher as ineffectual, blathering away while the caissons and tumbrels roll. But philosophers deviously have their days. Absent-minded Philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel innocently begot a dialectic, which begot Marx's socialism, which begot V. I. Lenin, who begot a revolution that made "practical" men tremble in their boots. Russell and Reiser hope that their logic, too, will somehow beget a revolution...
...Tokyo the mysterious Heinrich Georg Stahmer ("Hitler's Masked Envoy") was reported on his way. It was Herr Stahmer who arranged the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Alliance (TIME, Oct. 7). A Berlin-Tokyo-Moscow Alliance, safeguarding Japan's back door, would be all that is needed to start Japan on the march in the south. A hint of what his country might be up to was given by none other than Ambassador Nomura. Said...
...week Van Wyck Brooks made U. S literary history again by publishing his New England: Indian Summer. One thing was clear about the book at first reading: it is itself a great work of literature. With The Flowering of New England it formed a living body of cultural tradition. Georg Brandes and Benedetto Croce had tried to do a similar critical work for European culture. But Brooks's re-creation of the human side of New England, of the lives, characters, appearance, crotchets of his heroes, and of the landscape through which they moved, is dramatically crowd ed with...