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...week, aside from the cares of war (see p. 14), the Dictator busied himself daily grappling with the awful risks he runs by steering a Victorian course in 1935. At his very elbow last week was the League of Nations in the person of grey-haired, ruddy-cheeked Sir Eric Drummond. As Secretary General of the League from its founding until he resigned amid widespread regret two years ago, this British Ambassador to Rome is ripe with "The Spirit of Geneva," "The Spirit of Locarno...
...they faced each other across the great oak table in Palazzo Venezia last week neither Sir Eric nor the Dictator harbored illusion. The sins and the mistakes of Italy's Victorianism were transparent...
Mussolini's Sin No. 2 in the present crisis, his use of war as an instrument of national policy, similarly depends upon the Briand-Kellogg Pact of 1928. From the vantage ground of these two lofty technicalities, Sir Eric Drummond, the Ambassador of Victoria's grandson, was entitled to gaze reproachfully upon Benito Mussolini last week and did in fact so gaze...
...Wise & Faithful." Sir Eric, as he and the Dictator talked, received an impact so powerful that next day New York Timesman Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled from London: "Last night the most urgent kind of warning reached the British Government from wise, faithful Ambassador Drummond to the effect that Mussolini was convinced Britain intended to make war upon him and therefore had poured new troops into Libya"-i.e. opposite the British position in Egypt...
...realisation of native values in American life. Many plays definitely American were produced successfully, and the four conspicuous ones are reproduced by Mr. Mantle. Future historians of the drama will look back with interest on poet Maxwell Anderson's "Valley Forge" and Mare Connelly's colorful picture of Eric Canal life, "The Farmer Takes A Wife." America today is well represented by Sherwood's romantic western comedy, "The Petrified Forest," and by young Odet's panorama of life among the lowly in New York City, "Awake And Sing." Then there is the powerful and biting "The Children's Hour," which...