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...London's great Gothic Guildhall, Sir Austen Chamberlain rose last week to make a speech defending the League of Nations. 'The joint responsibility of the civilized world is embodied in the League," said he. "But we must first educate public opinion, so the League does not overstrain its strength...
Elected eleven years ago by a two-thirds majority. Vienna's Socialist Burgomaster Karl Seitz was in jail last week. At the same time a new Burgomaster, for whom not one Viennese had voted, was inducted into office with considerable ceremony in the neo-Gothic Rathaus. Appointed directly by Chancellor Dollfuss. Burgomaster Richard Schmitz is a fellow War veteran, a fellow Catholic, a fellow mem ber of the Christian Socialist Party and a onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria. He appeared in the city hall wearing round his neck the golden chain of office of Vienna's Burgomasters, first...
...evening last week people began to fill up the ornate Gothic chapel of the University of Chicago. They kept streaming in after every seat was occupied, stood in massed ranks at the back, trickled into the high galleries over the arches. They stormed applause when a stooped, smallish man with wide thin shoulders and greying hair appeared. They waited in silence while he adjusted the pince-nez balanced precariously on his narrow, prominent nose, ruffled some papers covered with fine, precise handwriting, began to speak in a clear, pleasant voice...
This week U. S. readers got a real treat when for once they were offered a book that would neither harrow their feelings, shame their social consciences, shock their susceptibilities nor arouse their baser impulses. Worlds apart from the concerns of their everyday lives, Seven Gothic Tales opens a window on a refreshingly different world-the world of "Isak Dinesen." Like their romantically pseudonymous author, these seven stories are romantic, but with a difference. Each has the depth of a well-conceived novel. Removed from the U. S. reader in time (the 19th Century) and place (Italy, France, Germany, Denmark...
...Seven Gothic Tales is the April choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...