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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures from every available source to make his selections. Says he: "A militarist will be disappointed with them for there are not enough pictures of guns and tactical groups. A pacifist will not find enough horror. . . . Here is the camera record of chaos." There is no running text. Editor Stallings' captions are terse, provocative, sometimes sarcastic. He quotes freely from Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger and Kipling. One could wish for far more detail with each print...
...Berlin stadium the "Festival of the Swastika" (Nazi symbol), seemed to consider their acts religious. Sunday found banners with the pagan swastika or Hakenkreuz ("hooked cross") stuck up beside the cross of Christ in a majority of Berlin churches, though not in the provinces. Preaching from the text He that is not with me is against me, Hitler's fiery acting Reichsbischof Miiller thundered: "Adolf Hitler has been sent by God to save the Fatherland! On the day he became Chancellor, he said to me 'Everything seems like a miracle of God!'" While churchgoers were digesting this...
Thousands of college graduates listened during the past fortnight to scores of commencement day speeches in which the predominant text was the New Deal. Rarely before had campus bigwigs found so handy a theme for their intellectual springboard. Most of them pointed with pride to President Roosevelt's program, lauded his use of college professors, wound up on a lofty note about public service...
...text thus nailed to the U. S. mast asked the Conference to subscribe to principles rather than to take action. By adopting the Secretary of State's proposal as a resolution the Conference would agree: that no nation hold to "extreme nationalism" or raise trade barriers; that embargoes etc. "be removed as quickly as possible;'' that tariff barriers "be reduced as quickly as possible;" that in making bilateral or multilateral agreement discriminatory measures should not be taken which "would react disadvantageously upon world trade as a whole...
...grandeur that she was fascinated. A White Russian refugee, by his own account descended from an ancient French family, Count Nicolas spoke and wrote English of a sort; Authoress Benson decided to edit his rodomontadinous reminiscences. Pull Devil, Pull Raker is an antiphonal collaboration: the Count supplies the text. Authoress Benson a disclaiming commentary. Sometimes, when the Count's version sufficiently annoys her professional eye. she balances his account with a rendition of her own. The result is an amusing, sometimes pathetic, altogether entertaining book. The Literary Guild, in summery mood, has chosen it for July...