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...TWILIGHT OF A WORLD-Franz Werfel -Viking...
...best-sellers of 1935, but Franz Werfel had written good books before that. Two of them (Class Reunion, The Man Who Conquered Death) reappeared last week in a collection of eight short novels and long stories ay Author Werfel. The world whose twilight is pictured here is the old, pre-War Austria; the crazy-quilt empire of 13 peoples, 24 countries whose imperial idea was embodied in one aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea, one of the few who foresaw its inevitable end. Werfel compares this Austrian...
Readers who fear political parables need not take fright; the stories in Twilight of a World are not messengers of any super-human faith. Not simply nostalgic ex-Austrians but men of good will in any land will understand and welcome them at sight. Some of them...
...MASK is OFF ! . . .-The President's speech last night left no twilight zone of doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...
...masterpiece of strategy" which would win much sympathy for the Plan. Dr. Townsend denied this. The jury found him guilty of contempt of the House, penalty for which is $100 to $1,000 fine, one to twelve months in jail, or both. Thus assured of a brief twilight in the public eye, the onetime oldsters' Messiah complacently observed: "This publicity will accelerate my Movement...