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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among newspaper reviewers has been that the more artists, especially young and "promising" artists, get their stuff shown in Manhattan, the more indubitably the Renaissance is at hand. A few weeks ago. however, the New York Times's Howard Devree let himself go and wrote a couple of thousand words to the effect that if he and his colleagues were to be anything but leg men there must be a reduction in the prodigious number of seasonal exhibitions...
...continued in a slightly more realistic vein as she urged all students to come and see her show. "Tell them that I love them all dearly," she said, "and that if they don't all come to see me, each and every one of them, yes, the whole ten thousand of them, during my two weeks in Boston, I'm going to be terribly disappointed. And tell them that I want them to cheer madly when I make my entrance so that I'll know that they are there...
...claiming nationalities by the conquest of foreign regions and the subsequent creation of new minorities (for many parts of the Sudeten area include as many Czechoslovaks as Germans). What is more, Hitler, in his "glorious" liberation of the submerged Germans, by carefully avoiding mention of the seven hundred thousand Poles in German Silesia or the three hundred thousand Slavs in East Prussia, proves himself to be anything but a champion of submerged peoples. Likewise, in supporting the claims of Poland and Hungary who are demanding their share of territory, Hitler is overlooking the fact that these two countries are dominating...
...announced by President Conant in his Report for 1935-1936, the work of the faculty Committee on the Extra-Curricular Study of American History has been steadily expanded. The Raiding List, prepared by the Committee and published by the University in 1937, has attracted widespread attention; more than six thousand copies have been mailed out in response to inquiries from persons not connected with the University...
Really scathing attacks on Neville Chamberlain were made almost entirely from extremely safe distances of several thousand miles, notably by certain Manhattan radio news broadcasters. Of these. Johannes Steel, a German agent on mysterious missions in Brazil until the Nazis came into power, was the most caustic: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. So they call it peace! . . . They call it peace because the victim, not being able to save itself from its friends, cannot face the enemy alone. They call it peace because the victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain...