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THERE may be more vehement critics of Nazi Germany, but none yet are so eloquent as Thomas Mann. In his latest book, "This Peace," he propounds the theory that "in the guise of hypocrisy and demoralized pacifism" Czechoslovakia was betrayed by European democracies so that Fascism would be strengthened for its role as hired gunman against Russia--a role which Hitler promises to play in "Mein Kampf." This brief essay condemns, in language at once controlled and vitriolic, the "pro-fascist" English statesmen for their leading role in this "foulest page of modern history...
White politicians in 16 Southern States that lack Negro professional schools, expecting this burst dam to bring a flood of applications from Negroes for admittance to whites' schools, sputtered and fumed. None was more vehement, however, than Kentucky-born Justice James McReynolds, who wrote a dissenting opinion (Minnesota-born Justice Pierce Butler concurring). Stormed Justice McReynolds: "I presume Missouri may . . . break down the settled practice concerning separate schools and thereby, as indicated by experience, damnify both races...
...most vehement opposition to this plan, even as a temporary remedy, will come from the House Masters. Strong, even ruthless, steps should be taken in quelling the objections of these gentlemen, especially when based on any such vague and dubious arguments as that of "House unity," which the inter-House system and undergraduate perversity have already destroyed...
...books like Quincy Howe's and Margaret Halsey's, English reviewers have an air of fixed agreeable tolerance. How they would take The Decline and Fall of the British Empire will never be known, since it will not be published in England. The most vehement book of the year, it consists of 263 pages of denunciation of England and all things English, her politics, smugness, selfishness, morals-even her birth rate...
...second act that Mr. Rice falters. The author weakens his position by choosing that Captain Dale sell the ancestral seat to the "German-American Culture Society," presently launching his characters into vehement tirades of anti Nazi propaganda; furthermore he limits his point of view by making one of Dale's ancestors a rabid Northerner, and another no less a personage than Harriet Beecher Stowe...