Word: skeins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THREE DIED BESIDE THE MARBLE POOL -Carl M. Chapin-Crime Club ($2). Well-written, closely reasoned yarn about a deaf hero's exploits in untangling a skein of gory complexities with the aid of teletype and microphone...
...good. Ambassador von Ribbentrop was greeted in London with maximum Foreign Office cordiality, but the skein of diplomacy at this point had only begun to unwind. Since the Treaty of Versailles bars Germany from having an effective navy of any sort. His Majesty's Government, while professing themselves willing to capitulate at 35%, asked other naval powers signatory to the Treaty of Versailles if they likewise would consent. Japan consented at once last week. Italy was noncommittal, but France resounded with fury. Once again, Paris assumed. His Majesty's Government were forcing the French Government to incur fresh...
Printed along with this editorial was a communication to the effect that Mr. Frankfurter had stated in a recent interview that the simple virtues of honesty and public devotion are not enough to unravel the tangled skein of social and economic complexities. While it is difficult to disagree with this statement, the important fact is that leaders of the state must AT LEAST have as a FIRST prerequisite "the virtues of honesty and public devotion." And it certainly is not an honest act to rob the banks of their gold, to issue an edict depriving a man of his gold...
Felix Frankfurter, prominent member of the Brain Trust, said in a recent interview, that in these days the simple virtues of honesty and public devotion are not enough to unravel the tangled skein of social and economic complexities which are too tied up with intricate and technical facts to be solved on the level of feeling and rhetoric...
...already confused skein of Balkan politics has been further tangled by the announcement that a four power pact including Greece, Turkey, Roumania, and Jugoslavia is contemplated and that, in anticipation of this, preliminary conversations have taken place. This has followed two years of hectic activity by Balkan diplomats during which the alliance commitments of the different states have changed as rapidly, as unexpectedly, and as inexplicably as a Cambridge winter...