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...human emotions and mundane events which Mr. Gregg advocates would be impossible outside of a retreat, which by its very seclusion would limit its spiritual benefits to its own members. A university, nevertheless, and quite fortunately, is a place where idealistic influences have some chance of exerting a leavening power on the community. Mr. Gregg's complaint evidently is that the leaven of philosophy falls short of leavening the whole lump. In this we can all agree with him, while hoping and working for a better world...
...French liaison man for such characters as Otto Abetz (now Ambassador to Unoccupied France) and Abetz mentor, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Neither was very important then, but both were comers. Remains was impressed by Ribbentrop's "18th-Century mind," thought he was the kind of cynic who would leaven the extremism of the Nazis. He was more impressed by young Otto Abetz, who had a French wife and spoke feelingly of the cultural bonds between western Germany and France. Abetz became a charter member of an informal international band of peace-lovers who seriously called themselves, after Romains...
...longer can war be called a destroyer of culture. On the contrary, it will be as leaven for the loaf of literature. From the fruitful subject of the British Army, the new belles-letters may range to many other fields. The saga of air warriors, the sombre story of submarine crews--these are just a few examples of the themes that will enrich the literature of the future. It will be a virile literature, spurning the foetid abnormality of recent novels. With war lords as its patrons, and the blood lust of Europe as the well-spring of its existence...
...leaven of change at the War's end left the peasants in possession of 95% of Russia's cultivated land. They held it while the harvests fell to 58% of their pre-War average, worked it in 25,000,000 homesteads until the drive to collectivize the farms began in 1929. The first Five-Year Plan called for a 20% collectivization in 1930. But when lower taxes, credit, use of farm machinery, did not move the kulaks, the more prosperous peasants, the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" was decreed on Jan. 5, 1930. Thereafter...
...could get all of the Jews in this country and Europe to outmarry, it would leaven the lump of Gentile stupidity. There is enough ability concentrated in the few millions of Jews to raise the general average considerably if it were disseminated by intermixture. ... I do not know that they would be willing to do it, but, if they did, they would confer a great genetic boon upon mankind, and at the same time would solve their own problems...