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Half a century ago a pompous, patrician French Army officer, Mercier du Paty de Clam, played a key role in the historic plot against Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Emile Zola's flaming J'Accuse! began "I accuse Colonel du Paty de Clam of having been the diabolical agent...
...whose voice commanded respectful attention spoke out courageously last week. His subject: Are most Japanese in the U.S. bad? His verdict: No. The speaker: patrician Joseph Clark Grew, 63, who knows Japan from ten years there as U.S. Ambassador, and whose hatred for Japanese militarism is unquestioned...
Also 150 years old is one of the country's patrician small colleges, Williams of Williamstowri, Mass. As it has to all hills and plains, the war has come to the college's lovely wooded heights. U.S. President James Abram Garfield (Williams '56) said of the college under its fourth president: "The ideal college is one with Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other." But last week more than 1,226 students were crowded into neocolonial quarters built for a peacetime total of 820. For the duration, Williams will teach...
This week the Secretary of State of the U.S. and the Foreign Minister of Great Britain are about to do business with Moscow. Cordell Hull, an honest, sincere and limited man from Tennessee, and Anthony Eden, a middle-class patrician from Britain, will go into conference with Viacheslav Molotov, a Russian revolutionary and politician who speaks for and only by permission of the toughest ruler in the modern world...
Where Is the Flaw? The picture was further brightened by the signing last week of a trade treaty with Chile which took a long step toward the establishment of a customs union between the two countries. Pint-sized but patrician Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernandez himself signed the treaty in the course of a gala visit to Buenos Aires, during which relations strained by Chile's abandonment of neutrality seven months ago were cemented...