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...days. It's fun to pursue the intricacies of the barter system; to see a man pay for a meal with a chicken; get two chicks and an egg an change; flip the egg to the waiter for a tip. It's positively delightful to see a Gallic jibe at our own despot: to see all the new hats tossed into the river to improve the bat industry. But it's all so chaotic and aimless. The Russians have a much better chance; they can be consistent and lambante nothing but nasty old capitalism. Hence their effort along the same...
...This jibe sorely vexed the League Committee of Five which meanwhile had received Ethiopia's guarded acceptance of their scheme "as a basis for discussion." Italy's scheme, the Committee hotly reported to the League Council, is "unacceptable and not susceptible of discussion within the framework of the League Covenant," thus deadlocking Geneva. Scheduled were meetings of the British Cabinet and the League Council to discuss some form of punitive action ("sanctions") against Italy if Italy makes "war"?a term the League has never succeeded in defining...
...danger--and this inheres in all education--is that the student will become enamored of theory and either fall to recognize facts or reject them when forced upon him, Inexperienced minds too easily confuse theory with actuality, and, in particular, are inclined to revolt when reality fails to jibe with theory. But a knowledge of theories--especially of such theories as Marxian socialism--will, in mature contact with actuality, strengthen rather than weaken faith in our American institutions. The only valid objection of those who hysterically denounce "radicalism" in the colleges is against those teachers--and they are rare indeed...
...Russian, a German or an Italian the Premier's moving appeal to Parliament sounded like a swan song of democracy, an indirect confession that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity can no longer stand up and take it. Paris last week was .repeating the bitter jibe "It seems that Briand was a poet and Poincare was right." Senator Henry de Jouvenel, onetime French Ambassador to Rome and a close student of II Duce, told his august colleagues amid a storm of applause: "I don't know where we stand with Great Britain, but I have confidence in Premier Mussolini...
Stanley Walker had to take many a jibe for his step down in the journalistic scale. Said he defensively: "I don't know anything about this picture-paper business, and it's time I learned. It's a faster game than I've ever been in, and I'm going to lose a whole flock of inhibitons. If some ideas I have should work out, this will be the goddamndest paper you ever...