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...language a motion to default?though it was so in effect?this measure declared that "The Chamber invites the Government to summon, in accord with Great Britain and other debtors, a general conference ... to adjust all international obligations...
...Lear; it could not be staged too often. "Mucedorus" was reprinted twenty times, and was even attributed, by some master of irony, some unhonored Voltaire, (also, alas! unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps the author of "Mucedorus," the Edgar Wallace of his time, never aspired to Valhalia. . . Let us summon from Limbo instead the wraiths of John Gower, quondam peer of Chaucer; and of Stephen Hawes, his disciple: let us read the "Lament for the Makirs," and marvel...
...yarn. Faulkner's is roundabout, circular: sometimes the suspense is awful, sometimes merely interminable. Like Conrad, Faulkner makes his people coherent to an unlikely and omnireminiscent degree. Unlike Conrad, Faulkner depends on madmen for his best effects. From the vasty deep of nightmares and bogeymen he can summon up ghosts that haunt nurseries and still frighten some grownups. With fewer bogeymen than usual, a happy issue out of some of its afflictions. Light in August continues the Faulkner tradition by a murder, a lynching and a good deal of morbid fornication...
Meanwhile the Reichstag's Supervisory Committee, which continues to exist after a Reichstag has been dissolved, exercised its specific constitutional right to summon the Chancellor and his Ministers for examination. They simply did not come. Phlegmatic Germans let the matter rest there. Adolf Hitler quit Berlin for his Munich headquarters. There were no riots. Calmly, majestically President von Hindenburg proceeded to out-Hitler Hitler by issuing yet another drastic decree...
...hours to print an apology "on pain of adopting suitable measures." The monks were avenged by a lone Japanese who attacked a Chinese towel factory single-handed in the middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels were finally extinguished 1,000 Japanese held a mass meeting in the Japan Club, and Rear Admiral Koichi Shiosawa, commander of the Japanese fleet anchored off Shanghai, issued an ultimatum: all anti-Japanese organizations in the foreign settlement as well as in the native cities must...