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With the fall of Mukden the Chinese Communists have completed their conquest of Manchuria. North China as far south as the Yangtze is in danger of falling under their control. On the economic side, Chiang Kai-shek's government has removed price controls and with them has vanished all hope for its economic reforms. The resulting inflation is destroying the newly-issued money for which the middle class was forced to sacrifice its holdings of gold and foreign currency. With the Republican defeat in the U.S. election discouraging Knomintang expectations for increased military aid, the Nationalist Cabinet has resigned...
...Amid the war of elements, the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds" descends from Parnassus (8 Arlington Street, Boston) an editor of an ancient Palladium of liberty and literature, mounts his grey gelding and rides forth to conquest...
...Remember Wilberforce and the early Abolitionists; remember the twelve Apostles and the company gathered round them . . . We peer into darkness, and none can say with certainty what course the true progress of the future should follow . . . The redemption of man is part ... of a greater thing-the redemption, or conquest, of the universe. Till that be accomplished the darkness abides, pierced but unillumined by the beam of divine light. And the one great question for everyone is whether he will 'walk in darkness' or 'walk in light...
Shaw's novel has three interweaving plots. Christian Diestl is an Austrian would-be superman who tolerates his Nazi party comrades since they are useful for world conquest; Michael Whitacre is a Broadway character worried about the sordid emptiness of his life; Noah Ackerman is a young Jewish boy confused by modern life but determined to burst through to personal fulfillment...
...overpayment for the university's contribution to Quebec. Ever since Bishop de Laval started his seminary to train French and Indian priests, the history of the school and of French Canada have been interwoven. Laval was the center of learning in New France. After the British conquest, it continued to educate French-speaking leaders. Money from Bishop de Laval's lands (granted to him by Louis XIV) kept the school going. Laval turned out scholars who kept alive the French culture in the English-governed land...