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...quell any possible fears that he was letting the U. S. get caught in a European quarrel. President Roosevelt spoke through Ambassador Davis: "The principles set forth last May by the President in his message [concerning Disarmament] to the heads of state remain the policy of the United States. . . . We are not, however, interested in the political elements of any purely European aspect of the picture...
With the writer's conception of the world to come one cannot quarrel. The future is a thing beyond the range of the most scientific criticism. If it is to Mr. Wells' fancy to picture the world of one-hundred and eighty years hence as a planet wholly civilized, gathered into one state, its trade perfected, its people lavishly provided with every necessity and every imaginable means of happiness, well ordered and well governed, none can gainsay him. If, in the course of showing the process by which this Utopia is achieved, he predicts devastating wars...
With details in the production one can quarrel endlessly. It is easy to be shocked at the idea of Harvard as an intellectual Sargasso Sea in some years to come; one may point out that Dearborn, Michigan, hardly has the ingredients of a scientific oasis for the decade of mental famine; it seems a little chauvinistic of Mr. Wells to plunge the Irish deeper than any other nation into the abyss of economic collapse; he takes a malicious joy in attributing the ruin of New York to its jerry-built skyscrapers. Yet these are but minor points--some well taken...
...showed the minister the new treaty. He suggested that France give America, oh, perhaps another 20,000,000 francs. De Vergennes protested; certainly it could not be done, and America had violated the conditions of alliance. "But," said Franklin, "how happy the British would be to see a quarrel between their late foes!" He received the money...
...Paris the purchase of a Matisse picture started a friendship with Matisse; soon she was in the midst of the pre-War Paris art world. She and Picasso hit it off from the first: with the interlude of one bad quarrel they have remained best friends. Both of them acknowledge that they are geniuses. Gertrude Stein "realizes that in English literature in her time she is the only one. She has always known it and now she says it." Though she does not believe in popular success she would like to have had a little more recognition. For years...