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...little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. For over a year, with the mounting threat of Nazi Germany and its dream of eastern expansion and the possibility of a Habsburg restoration in Austria, he attempted to arrange a meeting of all three Kings with their respective foreign ministers discreetly in the background. Always a new crisis in hectic Rumania had made the tripartite meeting impossible...
...reporting the Gillette case as An American Tragedy (the second volume is almost a stenographic record of the trial) Author Dreiser made Society the villain for having endowed Clyde Griffiths with a sordid background and for tormenting him with emotional stresses with which he was not equipped to deal. (The film version, starring Phillips Holmes and Sylvia Sidney, angered Dreiser to the point of trying to keep it off the screen because, he complained, it slighted the Dreiser sociology...
...Lockhart is personally as fascinating as ever: humorous, egotistically amusing, naively entertaining. But he does not have the background to work with or the experiences to tell that made his first story one of the best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears...
...present system of competition does not offer the most effective and impartial method of selection. Yet it must be borne in mind that the advantages of three years of study in a foreign land are many. A man develops a cosmopolitan culture, finds his intellectual, literary, and historical background broadening, his range of comprehension enlarging. Oxford itself, with its quiet and scholarly background offers the student everything his intellectual largeness is capable of absorbing...
...state, fascism, and pressure groups in politics. The lectures will be given for students only and the general public will not be admitted. The treatment of the material, therefore, will not be of a popular sort but will be found useful and interesting to men who have already some background in the problems of international politics. Since these discussions will take place outside of the class room the lecturer will have an opportunity to present to his listeners in an informal way his views on the topic which he is most vitally interested in and without feeling any necessity...