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Replied Benito, his eyes rolling with fury: "This is a point which I want you to understand. I have never asked myself that question be cause a universal conception of democracy does not exist. There exist and have existed, States which glorify themselves with the title democratic, but every one of them ? Athens, Venice, Britain, the United States ? have, in their history, novelties so absolutely distinct that nothing has ever seemed to me so grotesque as an attempt to reduce them to a common measure...
...book that does not exist...
...effort to suggest the vortex of sensations in the hero's mind, sustained as this effort is from beginning to end, cannot help straining at points. Highly effective in such scenes as the combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally...
...Entente. All three Powers have now agreements, military and otherwise, with France, which makes her virtually a member of the Little Entente. Recently (TIME, March 3), Italy concluded a treaty with Yugoslavia, now Italy has concluded a treaty with Czecho-Slovakia. Taking into consideration the fact that a treaty exists between France and Poland and one is said to exist between Poland and Italy, the total membership of the not very little Entente would seem to include Poland, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Yugo-Slavia and Rumania-nations totaling nearly 750,000 square miles 146,600,000 people and standing Armies...
...despite these precedents, it would seem more becoming for Americans to regard this latest Russian tendency rather with alarm than with pride. There cannot exist, in these critical days, an American with soul so dead that he has never reflected on the inherent clumsiness of his government; on the inadequacy of his public law in coping with the major problems of economic life; on the futility of most of the legislation ground out by busy state assemblies. Yet in the face of these defects which one might assume to be obvious to foreign observers, the Russians, says Mr. Recht...