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...absence of Mr. Koussevitzky, who is on a holiday before his performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" next week, the Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts this afternoon and tomorrow night will be conducted by the Anglo-Belgian director, Mr. Eugene Goosens, known in this country for his work in Rochester and Cincinnati. Despite the obvious fact that Mr. Goosens waves the longest stick seen here in recent years, he is essentially a quiet conductor, in marked contrast to the Orchestra's other guests of late. And as leader of the Orchestra, he is firm and competent in securing what he wants...
Durrell is a 27-year-old Anglo-Irishman, born in Burma and raised on the border of Tibet, now working as clerk at the Ionian Bank in Corfu. Insofar as it has a story, The Black Book tells of a group of people living in a stuffy English hotel -all neurotic, frustrated, savage and obsessed with sex. The narrator brings home an 18-year-old tuberculous prostitute, Gracie, speculates about his neighbors, suffers a baffled, angry grief at Gracie's death...
...concluding his series of lectures on Anglo-American diplomatic relations since the Civil War, the former professor of History here told the New Lecture Hall audience that "the two nations lack a common fold for much of their world policy." Because of the growth of European air power England's home security, he contended, has been destroyed, he contended, and she is more than ever a worldly power." On the other hand, America has become increasingly unwilling to involve herself in Europe...
...used in China, Baxter continued, "force political or force economical" would result in negligible gains. Although he called himself a long-time partisan of Anglo-American cooperation, Baxter felt "the time is not ripe" for such a culmination of the friendly relations established back in 1901. "Japan has bitten off one of the largest mouthfuls in history," and we can expect, as a result, a good measure of "indigestion." A war in the Far East "is an impossible thing for either of us singly and unwise for us jointly." Only when a more pacific policy is shown by England...
...addition, Baxter discussed the questions of the Irish Free State and the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, which worsened our relation with Great Britain in 1920-21. He termed the 1921 conference in Washington on naval limitation "most successful" and described how "parity in all classes of ships was made the standard of Anglo-American relations" at the London Naval Conference...