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...second part of the new policy will be the publication of one essay a month on some international question, in this case "Will War Destroy Civilization?" by Hoffman Nickerson '11. The winning Garrison Prize Poems for 1932-33, together with "Spring Songs", by C. L. Sulzberger '34, will also be included in this issue...
...when applied to the German situation. The Nazis have publicly announced that their goal is a Pan-Germany, a linking up with Austria and later, perhaps, Hungary. If France intervenes to smash this arrangement, it is unlikely that England and her ally, Italy, would stand by while the French destroy the Central Powers. They could not watch peacefully the elimination of the eastern check to French supremacy. It would mean, baldly, a general, disastrous war. That is not an alarmist view; it is, unfortunately, commonsense...
Edward Dickinson Duffield (Prudential Life Insurance Co.)-"It's difficult for Congress alone to cure things. . . . Modification of debtor-creditor contracts often are needed and justified but to destroy the obligations attaching to such contracts will weaken the entire basis of our system. A 70? dollar wouldn't be so bad if businessmen were sure that it would be maintained as a 70? dollar...
...committee premises complete cooperation with Cambridge authorities in soliciting contributions from the faculty for the purpose of alleviating the condition of the unemployed. In short, it does not conform to Mr. Robart's idea of a university committee, and faculty members of Harvard would do well to further destroy Mr. Robart's rather mistaken conception by contributing to the neighborhood relief fund...
...narrative concerns a young betting clerk who volunteers, in a moment of national crisis, to die in the name of "Anonymous Ireland." Put into a cell with the leader of the rebellion, he discovers that the leader is not a man, but a woman in disguise. The resulting complications destroy the happiness which he had found in the prospect of sacrifice; when he is released instead of being shot, readjustment is impossible, and leads him at the end of the book to a situation of deliberately chosen incongruity...