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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Under article 18 'the high contracting parties agree that the League shall be intrusted with general supervision of the trade in arms and ammunitions, etc., etc.' It would be absurd here to substitute 'League' for 'high contracting parties' so that the sentence would read 'The League agrees that the League shall be intrusted...
...draft for a League of Nations which was brought over here by Mr. Wilson on his hurried trip was hastily thrown together and so clumsily phrased that even he cannot interpret clearly what it means. Comparatively few American citizens have read the draft at all, and so far as the American public is concerned, aside from the debates in the Senate and some critical discussion in the press, there has been no attempt to make clear just what effect any one of the twenty-six articles will have either upon the future of the United States or upon the future...
...distinct and complete. The peasants, the bureaucracy, the poet, the dullard, the maniac, the woman are almost ocularly visible, lightened a bit specially by the irony of title and touch, but real as they must be in their local habitation. "Patriots' All" is the best story I have read in any magazine in months...
...deft and tender handling of a difficult unusual situation, read "The New Romance." Mr. Kister has taken elemental facts, arrayed them cleverly, brooded over them with mature intent Sometimes his style is incredibly young,--or is he dramatizing the youth of this gay if serious adventure...
...Read, Jr., chairman, and Miss Read, C. W. Eliot, 2nd and Miss Taylor, R. Gerould and Miss Fulton, R. C. Hardy and Miss Warren, L. Lane and Miss Peirce, P. C. Lloyd and Miss Thompson, J. D. Nichols and Miss Lane, R. L. White and Miss Cole...