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Nobody in the little (pop. 6,000) Netherlands town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
Triumph of Kinship. Author Elias, a member of the Cornell English department, got most of the fresh material for his book from Dreiser himself between 1937 and the novelist's death in 1945. Since this was the case, it is disappointing that the book does not go into greater detail on Dreiser's political activities, his adherence to Communism before his death, or into the bumbling and fumbling of the writing of his later years. The deeper loss that his approach involves is the loss of emotion that would give meaning to the facts so carefully presented...
...American novelist of his time, and the triumph of his career was that he was able to stand off from the world in which Sister Carrie lived, while still remaining a part of it. His comprehension of its dullness and its misery never destroyed his sense of human kinship with the people to whom it was the norm of life...
...sovereign Dominions were not formally bound to act together. In 1911, every one of "the old Dominions" (and the mother country) had rejected a proposal binding them to concerted action in defense and foreign relations. Their union rested on like-mindedness, on "kingship and kinship," on a common heritage and a common way of doing things. It rested also-very heavily-on British control of the seas and London's central position in world commerce-of which Lloyd's was a symbol. These had been the central political and economic facts of the preceding century...
Such considerations might hold Eire-and India-in the Commonwealth, but they would not take the place of "kingship and kinship," nor the place of the once-supreme British Navy...