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...several lectures before the New School of Social Research in New York City, is one of the outstanding figures in the life of modern Italy. As a professor in the University of Florence he became involved in politics serving as a Deputy of the Progressive School. Although at the outset he was in sympathy with the Fascist movement, and one of the leading contributors to Mussolini's journals, he gradually broke away from the new party, until after the institution of the repressive system of Mussolini, he became a vigorous opponent of the new government...
...course adopted by Mr. Ramsey MacDonald in 1924 should again com mend itself to him and to Mr. Lloyd George (Leader of the Liberal Party), I should like to obtain co-operation from the outset of the inquiry...
...Fundamentally, confidence has been restored and Germany has been reestablished as a going concern on a relatively high level of economic activity. From the outset, moreover, the Dawes Plan realized its primary object by securing the expected reparations payments and transfers to the creditor powers...
...feeding post-War Germany. The picture included "little girls . . . white, emaciated, unsmiling . . . with great awful eyes," and "a woman dressed in black" in Berlin at "that dreadful Christmas season of 1922 . . . the tears streaming down her face, carrying in her hand a little piece of hemlock." At the outset it appeared that Mr. Houghton had been sent to St. Louis to counteract a political canard that Mr. Hoover had been unkind to Germans. But at the end he said, "This is not politics...
...till near the close the true state of affairs was not appreciated. That this is true is evident from the fact that the defaulter sometimes continues to hold a respected position, or even to be an active church member. Such a contradiction is certainly not always, and from the outset, conscious hypocrisy. There has been a gradual numbring of moral sensibility, a growing blindness of the soul, and when the light of such a man is darkness, how great is that darkness...