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This week Kent Cooper, now A.P.'s executive director, renewed the fight. In an article written for a "Journalism in War-Time" symposium, he proposed that international freedom of news exchange be made a cardinal principle of any future peace treaties. Back of his proposal was a sound newsman's unshakable conviction: if universal dissemination of truth can be guaranteed in the postwar world, the chances of new wars occurring will become remote. Said...
...brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard to admit that Hamilton believed in "Federalist party justice." But the indefatigable Uncle Charles again routs Dr. Smyth since Hamilton vigorous ly attacked the Federalist-inspired Sedition Act of 1798. "Let us not establish a tyranny," said...
Brilliant Catfight. The particular symposium in The Republic that is devoted to foreign affairs turns out to be a brilliant and bitter catfight. As a tiger among lesser cats, Beard claws all his enemies in this particular chapter to death. Beard's opponents have fictitious names, but it is easy to identify them with the beliefs of Dr. James Shotwell, Clarence Streit, Ely Culbertson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Pearl Buck and others. The weakness of this foreign-policy symposium derives from its satirical intent, which is not in keeping with The Republic as a whole. Walter Lippmann, for example...
...time he said: "I've no idea what her income is, but judging from the manner in which she lives, it is fairly considerable." In season, once a week, he brought her a bunch of her favorite lilies of the valley. Asked in 1931 to contribute to a symposium on marriage, Shaw replied: "No man dare tell the truth about marriage while his wife lives. Unless, that is, he hates her, like Strindberg...
Trying to pick up the broken threads of his career, Expatriate Stearns wove himself another. He began to re-examine the country he had forsaken. His America: A Reappraisal, which critics found more penitent than profound, was followed by a new symposium America Now, more thoughtful and more hopeful than the indictment of U.S. civilization Stearns had edited in his youth. As a symbol of the "exile" period in American literature, Stearns had only literary interest. But the pattern of denial and affirmation that he wove into his life-the rejection of American values and then a sober re-examination...