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...Program of Realization" will be put through by flaunting the "American" slogan "Prosperity!", and will feature creation of a National Economic Council with extraordinary power to act in stimulating French production and commerce. Hitherto the notorious bickering of French politicians has hamstrung many important measures of a purely economic sort. According to M. Dosch-Fleurot, the proposed National Economic Council would have right of way over Parliamentary bickerers in many important respects...
Somehow I've always tried to be just a little aloof from that sort of thing...
...pictures now on view at the University Theatre are distinctly above average, especially for these parts. "The Wind" with Lillian Gish as the little girl buffeted by the breezes is a rather good film of the melodramatic sort. Die Gish shows that even if Dorothy has abandoned her for the stage, she can still do a good job on the screen. Her portrayal in this picture of the windy West is as good as any she has done in quite some time...
Absolutism of one sort or another, so popular at present in southern and eastern Europe, is undoubtedly justified in a case where ten years of representative government produced little but turmoil, riots and even assassinations on the floor of the legislative chamber. Those familiar with the past and present maps of Europe will remember that the Jugo-Slavian government has in addition at least one other "submerged nationality" to deal with, the Montenegrins, whose support of the Allied cause was rewarded by the loss of their independence at the Peace Conference...
...positive value in get-togethers of this type is accepted rather more restrainedly now than it was just after the war, during the blanket enthusiasm for every sort of co-operation from the Farmers' Milk Exchange to the Melting Pot. Certainly there is pleasure and prestige to be had through such associations as the National Student Federation; the profit derived therefrom must be a general and genial entity. Without executive power, which no one desires to grant it, the recommendations of the organization through its committees remain merely advisory and the whole advantage of the discussions boils down...