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...beginning of the debate was enlivened by the re-entry into the Chamber of the Communists, who decided to abandon their boycott in order to be able to heckle the Government. Their spokesman, Signor Grieco, was not long in starting his attack. In a bitter speech, full of the usual Communist phrases, he attacked Fascism mercilessly for its policies, its achievements, its existence...
...Interallied debts represent an exchange of resources, and register the movements which took from one country to another the funds which each in its sphere could supply. If we abandon the juridical plane and look oil the matter from the higher view of cooperation and fairness, strict justice would seem to demand a general pooling of War expenditures and their allotment among the allied States proportionately to the riches of each one, and without taking count of the particular engagements which the necessities of the moment imposed. Thus only would be realized an equality among all in the total...
...long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates for self-dedication to sport. When a football match becomes the amusement of a holiday afternoon, when the bleachers abandon their zestful purpose of inspiration and guidance--, then athletics will be animated by the spirit which, whether it wins or not, plays for the joy of playing...
...long legs stride into a mews. Before him bulks the British Museum. Says he: "There is no escape from pantheism, and from a creed which, if not pessimistic, is without hope for the future and without consolation in the present, unless we abandon the doctrine of equivalence between God and the world, and return to the theory of a creation by a God who is, in His own being independent of the world and above...
Author Reymont, one of the dozen children of poor parents, grew up under the hardships to which so many Slavic writers have been heirs. Early expelled from school for refusing to abandon his native language for the Russian, he tried variously to make a livelihood?as store clerk, telegraph operator, actor, rail employe, farm hand, Paulist novice. He wrote his first short story, The Death, in 1894. He is now working on a cycle of six novels, of which one will have its setting in the U. S., whither he came in 1919 to study the life of Polish peasants...