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However, in his "Extracts from the Poetry of Chi Lao", Mr. Whitman challenges achievement. These are Whit manifestly not Chinese: but they are the stuff of poetry. Mr. R. C. Rogers in his "Sonnet" fingers an incoherent loveliness. The octave speaks of "chords that bind", an unfortunate ambiguity; the sestet hovers momentaly on the threshold of beauty; but the poem as a whole is tenuous and inarticulate. The "Winter Night's Spell" of Mr. Best plucks an old lute. We cannot help wishing there were more lines like these...
...propaganda for his release, twenty-five celebrated literary men have contributed to a volume in his honor. When all is said and done, we usually consider creative thinkers best qualified to judge human motives. These writers range in variety from the undoubted Americanism of Percy McKaye and James Whit comb Riley to men of the fame of Barbusse and Wells. Again, about a million American citizens thought enough of him to vote for him for the highest office in their gift. Now we reach a question of Americanism. Personally, my Americanism is of such a kind that I prefer...
...ever grow. And without understanding no solution of international problems is possible. MR. Hoover has shown himself an American, and it is as the embodiment of what is most truly American that he is recognized abroad. He has shown no sign of being a man who will abate one whit the just right of the United States to act, when it does act, in its own duly constituted way. But he also believes in the participation of America (not its dictatorship) in measures which offer at latest a chance of bringing stability to the world. His judgment and his sanity...
America is bored and disgusted by the interminable rhetoric of her Senators, but she is not one whit less insistent that we should join the league and do our share toward establishing and maintaining world peace. The issue has been made clear: either the United States must ratify and the league begin to function or a great race for armaments is inevitable...
...Take it or leave it!" The rights and privileges of the United States could have been adequately safeguarded by mild interpretative resolutions; the Republicans wrote in amendment after amendment--labelled "reservations"--with the avowed purpose of killing the Treaty, at what cost to the world they cared not a whit. The promises they made in the heat of war, the pledges they gave to those men who laid down their lives that the Senate might exist are as nothing to them. They see no farther ahead than the next presidential election; the glory of the Republican Party is greater...