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...last week on his front bench, scores of Deputies screamed "Resign! Resign!" Hysteria mounted until a reference to "my country" by the Premier subjected him to a torrent of demands that he speak instead of "our country." This he thereafter did with evident galling bitterness of soul. In their element were the forces of French antiFascism, led by millionaire Socialist Leon Blum. "Mr. Premier' he crushingly observed, "I am surprised, nay I am amazed, to see that you are still 'Mr. Premier.' There are some mistakes which a public man does not have the right to survive...
...Caridius, having failed as a lawyer in the great city of Megapolis, is running for Congress on an independent ticket against both Republican and Democratic machines. By an accident he is elected, finds himself beholden not only to the machine he thought he was fighting but to the racketeering element. His newfound law partner, Myerberg, makes short work of his scruples: "When a reform movement elects one of its members to office, that ends it, there is nothing more for it to do ... the reform has won." Learning every minute. Caridius commutes by plane to his seat in the House...
...modern thought in regard to theology, continued Dr. Temple, is an attempt to make a comparative study of religion. Psychology in particular tends to do this. "It is wrong to make a sharp distinction between truth and falsehood, for in every religion Christian or pagan there is some element of truth...
...prophesies the rise of a third major party between 1936 and 1940 which will be chiefly Farmer-Labor in composition with some white collar element. The Socialists will unite with them, he says if they are permitted educational freedom to spread their doctrine. A likely basis for the new party's platform will be "production for use, not profit...
...professor who takes part in labor or political quarrels may find himself "no longer of use to his university" because "the element of responsibility" which "here comes in, overlies his rights to free action as an individual citizen," according to an ominous opinion recently expressed by "The Yale Alumni Weekly...