Word: crisises
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Churchill. The approach of the crisis synchronized with the great annual politico-business event of the British Government?the presentation of the budget to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Winston Churchill stepped up manfully to meet his great occasion.
Mr. Stokowski, conducting a symphony of empty chairs, churns on and on; the music must be coming to a climax, for now his arms wildly flagellate; he whips his fiddlers up to a crisis, holds his phantom cymbals and horns and woodwinds suspended in a terrific fortissimo of silence, and...
"It is my opinion that the recent League crisis was due mostly to the fact that through Germany's entry the League as an instrument of the victor states would be basically altered. . . .
"Germany faces a decision as to whether, owing to this League crisis, her fundamental attitude toward the League should be changed."
That broad and fertile State was introduced to the Union as "Bleeding Kansas" and settled mainly by abolitionists. Perhaps the same temperament produces the abolitionist and the prohibitionist. At any rate, it is only natural that a state born in such a crisis should be stamped with a seriousness of...