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Because of unrest in Morocco, the entire political situation at Madrid remains unsettled. The decisive defeat of the Spanish forces near Melilla in July, 1921, still rankles bitterly in 20,000,000 proud Spanish breasts. The condition of Spanish morale is well indicated by the wholesale national endorsement at the recent pardoning, by the King, of soldiers who mutinied against going to Morocco. The military position of the Spanish troops continued last week, according to reports, " precarious " and subject to frequent raids from the tribesmen...
...Government will be only too glad to see the last of me, for I am only a trouble to it. But, in the first place, I would not for anything in the world increase the unrest in Germany by my return; therefore I must wait for more normal times. In the second place, in order to return I require the permission of the German Government...
Attention is drawn "to the alarming indications of industrial unrest everywhere apparent." Emphasis is laid on the unemployment problem and its disruptive effect on the trades unions, the " safeguards of industrial peace." It is estimated that if unemployment continues at its present rate the unions will be bankrupt within a year...
After the War he was profoundly conscious of the inevitable upheavals that follow all wars, but he was not long to act. Bolshevism taught him his great lesson; the great social unrest in Italy of 1920-1921 gave him the necessary impetus. In a country where the shirt has played such an important part in polities since Garibaldi produced the Red Shirts (symbols of liberty) it is not unnatural that Mussolini should look to shirts as a political weapon. He founded the Black Shirts, or the Fascisti Party, on the political theory that Bolshevik tactics must be used to combat...
...following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL?D. H. Law-rence?Seltzerr ($2.00). This volume contains three long stories, each a vivid symbolic study of a character caught in the spiritual unrest following the war. In The Captain's Doll an Austrian countess is forced to earn her living by making doll-figures, one of a Scotch captain whom she marries after the death of his wife. The doll symbolizes the fact that even an adoring wife tries to "make a doll...