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This time, however, as Congress meets, it is turning dawn in international relations. Crescent light reveals Locarno, reveals the League of Nations, vigorous if not triumphant, and the World Court, formidably attractive. To be sure, the new light has not yet gilded politics, nor has the personnel of Congress yet admitted any degree of conversion to a new conception. But the crescent dawn reveals a surge, a wave, a recrudescence, of international vision and, it may be, of altruism. Certainly there is health in hope...
...were never played, books which were never published, until a novel, The Improvisatore, brought him suddenly to fame. In his spare moments he had written a few fairy tales, idle things for which he had no regard. He wanted to be a dramatist. He traveled through Europe; after his triumphant visit to England, Charles Dickens saw him off from Ramsgate Pier. His plays were refused. People asked for more fairy stories. In 1847 and 1848 two new volumes were published. He wrote a romance, a book of travel; they failed to sell. "Fairy stories," readers begged. So, still disdaining them...
...Triumphant and filled with a new hope, the enterprising Commissar declared: "If the success of these operations continues, the world revolution will take on a new lease of life. . . .Communism must do everything possible to preserve for the cause experienced fighters who may be on the point of dying...
...first meeting in Paris. In 1923 he resigned the Presidency of the French Senate, which he had held since 1918, in order to devote himself to the League. The recent session of the League Council found him too ill to attend. But he died in a measure triumphant, "the Spiritual Father of the League...
...debate will be the third held in Boston between Oxford and Harvard. In 1922 Harvard was adjudged triumphant by the audience, and the following year Oxford won by a large majority. The debate on October 16 will break the deadlock. Following the English custom, there will be no formal judges of the debate, but the audience will vote to decide the winner...