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...General Strike and had upped the Fascist National Volunteers to the most powerful armed body in the State. An impotent Labor Government, despairingly voted into office, has just been swept out again on a flood of financial panic and bewildered rioting, and the National Volunteers have hoisted Dictator Frank Hillier into the saddle. At the head of a pasteboard National State Party, with Parliament dissolved and a yes-man Council as his catspaws, Hillier rules England. Royalty has apparently vanished at last. There is no opposition. There are a few scattered Communists still alive, but in hiding. There are still...
Sacker and the Dictator have been friends for years, and now that they are at the top of the heap, Sacker thinks he is sitting pretty. As organizer and commander of the 1,600,000 National Volunteers that put Hillier in power, he feels himself indispensable, thinks Hillier will give him a free hand to reorganize England into a tight little fighting machine. "He began describing the England he would create when he and his friends were in charge. It made me wince. It was like nothing more than a fearful sort of public school, with willing fags, a glorious...
...Hillier and his banker backers consider Sacker's private army a menace, now that it has served its purpose, and plan to disband it. Sacker, who cannot believe that his adored friend Hillier would double-cross him, thinks he would be unofficially glad to have his hand forced, plots a dangerous coup. Because he lets the wrong people in on his secret the plot is nipped in the bud. Sacker's arrest and execution is the signal for a general blood purge. Before it is over and England shudders into regimented quiet, Liberal Andrew is glad to make...
Author Jameson has shrewdly taken more than one leaf from recent history. To skeptical readers who might say, "It can't happen anywhere," she has only to point to Germany. But Frank Hillier and Sacker are not so much copies of Adolf Hitler and Ernst Roehm as translations of them into recognizable English types. Author Jameson has made an ominously plausible case. A Cassandra who hates what she foresees, she prophesies so graphically that, unlike Cassandra, she may be listened...
...following changes have been made in the cast of "The Three Strangers," to be given by the Dramatic Club next Thursday, Friday and Saturday: R. S. Hillier '17 in place of W. Sanders '17 as Shepherd Newberry; W. J. Brown '17 to take the part of the character Eliza New instead of L. S. Kubie '16; and P. Lowry as Constable Trendle. One feature in this play will be the dancing of an old English reel...