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...Constitution Hall, with aged Frank Billings Kellogg presiding, Lord Reading delivered an extremely graceful, circumlocutory and boring address, a brilliant example of how dull a great and able man can be at a formal function. He recalled his distinguished U. S. friendships, expatiated on the profession, on India, on Anglo-U. S. understanding and world depression. Only with the politest indirection did he remind the U. S. ''brethren" that when England moved her high courts to finer quarters 50 years ago, she followed the move with sweeping reforms in her legal procedure, "to quicken yet not to hurry...
During the War he repeatedly warned England that the conflict would last a long time. The Allies sent him as head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission to get a small loan from John Pierpont Morgan. The story goes that in the latter's library Lord Reading boldly asked for a billion dollars. Banker Morgan appeared mildly surprised, suggested that the Allies accept half a billion. Lord Reading returned to the U. S. as special envoy, borrowed billions more. Upon the retirement of Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice he became Ambassador at the special request...
...edition or in one of the European editions smuggled into the U. S., this is the first "authorized abridged" version. It is authorized by Lawrence's widow, would never have been permitted by Lawrence himself. For the book, now made respectable by excisions of many descriptive passages and Anglo-Saxon words, has also become suggestive and otherwise pointless. From a glorification of proper love-making and a sermon against sexual wrongs. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence once thought of calling it Tenderness} has become merely an ordinary adulterous tale. The plot of the original and the bowdlerized version...
...always with that reverence expected of devotees. "While here we have the ox built for beef and for service who might have been president with that face if he had started in some other line of work." Before he had seen any bullfights himself, Hemingway had the usual Anglo-Saxon prejudice against them, but ''I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death." Before he had seen many corridas he forgot his prejudice, became first interested, then enthusiastic. The bullfight, says Hemingway...
...confused tangle of issues, political and religious, imperial and native, which serves as background to Gandhi's personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...