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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that no storm of indignation in England or France has yet swept the Chamberlain and Daladier Governments out of office! . . . What has happened to the leaders of the Popular Front-to the elements that compose the Popular Front-that they do not protest against the most shameful betrayals in modern history? . . . Does Chamberlain really intend to deliver Western Civilization to the new Anti-Christ...
Significance. The triumph of Germany was enormous, but not without limits, which were set as firmly as limits can be set in the Europe of 1938. If the crisis proved anything with finality, it proved that modern communication and enlightenment of the peoples reduce the chances of an outbreak of war. For the first time in history, a major conflict had been settled by talking instead of shooting first. And, while all men of good will deplored the dismemberment of central Europe's one island of democracy and were saddened for the painful uprooting of the minorities which will...
Questioned on the problem of propaganda, Goldstein felt that modern advertising had by playing on the fears and hopes of the buying public increased the number of hypochondriacs, and that it was up to education to develop a resistance to propaganda...
Today in the stadium there will be a football game. The Vagabond will be there. The newspaper men will also be there. And the modern successors of the telegraph lines which Ezra helped Morse to string along the tree trunks between Washington and Baltimore will be chattering up above, sparking out the account of the game between the Big Red and the Big Crimson. But the Vagabond, psychic youngster that he is, will sense the presence of Ezra by more than the metallic clicking in the press box. Ezra, he knows, will be very much present on the opposite side...
...speak, fully armed from the head of Dr. Hutchins. The sceptic can reasonably be allowed his questions as to the maturity of this sudden revival of medieval scholasticism, and raised eyebrows must be expected at such parts of the curriculum as the public dissection of an animal, whose modern practice might be slightly straining a tradition. But Harvard should vigilantly watch this departure in education in this small laboratory and be ready to use anything practical which may come...