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...continued: "The League was established in the most troubled years the world has ever seen, yet it has four notable achievements to record: the establishment of an international world court; the bringing about of the financial salvation of Austria last year; the creation of a new international llaw; and the adoption of methods successful in blocking world wars...
...John Potts (Laborite) suggested that a tax be imposed on all titles. Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying, said that the revenue from such a source would not be great and that it already costs a duke nearly $3,500 in duties on creation, or elevation to such rank, while baronets paid something under $1,400. (The grant of Letters Patent alone costs, for a duke $1,625; a marquis, $1,400; an earl, $1,150; a viscount, $930; a baron, $700; and a baronet...
...better known as a dramatist than a novelist. The present novel is a translation of his longest and best fiction. With his accustomed subtlety and melancholy it pictures the life of a young man in Vienna who lives for pleasure only, his various entanglements, his interest in and creation of music, his friends both in the gay upper society and the humbler middle class. Schnitzler here, as always, regards life as a poetic dream. The meaning and moral of his novel are woven skillfully into the substance, and the characters are always real people caught into the mystery of life...
Lord Robert Cecil: "In an interview for The New Palestine, organ of American Zionists, I said: 'I believe that when the history of the war comes to be impartially written the two greatest results will be the establishment of the national Jewish home and the creation of the League of Nations...
...same house! One writer in a family is difficult enough, I hear; but not so with the Norrises. They not only work well in the same house, but they help each other. Apparently their methods of procedure are quite different. Mr. Norris is hard-pressed during the period of creation. He fights for the right word. Mrs. Norris, on the other hand, says that the enjoys every moment of putting pencil to paper. At her best Kathleen Norris can present a fine, moving, startlingly real picture of life. At her worst she becomes caught in describing the minutiae of daily...