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...political creed is that of Liberal ism, and throughout his stay at Cambridge he has been one of the chief supporters of the Liberal Party there and has often contribute articles on Liberalism to the University journals. His interests however do not remain within Cambridge. He is as much sought as a popular speaker on Liberal Party platforms both a his home and in the East End on London and also in many other parts of the country. His reputation as a speaker in the Cambridge Union has led many prominent men including members of Parliament to enlist his eloquent...
...order while we were a young, struggling nation, have not only not been able to keep our leadership, we have ceased for a time even to follow. To save our position among the states of the world, we must at least support the new Court. It is not altru- ism that I counsel. It is not helping Europe. It is not sacrifice for the general good. It is selfishness for America. It is our own national self-respect...
This American counterpart of Expressionism--or whatever other ism you want to call it--is of course a part of the whole Revolt from Realism which has taken so many different forms as we have emerged from the Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century. At first it was only in the dramatic representation of dreams within the plays that our dramatists dared to present that fanciful and fantastic caricature of American life which we find for example in the dream scenes of "The Beggar on Horseback" or "The Crime in the Whistler Room". But in "Processional" and "The Moon...
...Author. John P. Marqu has followed the usual formula becoming a U. S. novelist. Graduated by Harvard in 1915, he tried jour ism with the Boston Transcript The New York Tribune. After a War career, he tried advertising. He found ''copy" easy to write but difficult take seriously, so he fled Manhattan, turned to writing novels...
...desires to come to an understanding with Germany and carry out the Experts' Report. And even if M. Herriot is unable to continue in power, France will still work toward an understanding with Germany, since the bulk of the French, especially the peasantry, are weary of Poincaréism...