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Once again Wilhelm II quaffed the mead of a triumph presented to his lips by Fate or Chance. It is scarcely realized today through what extraordinary vicissitudes he has passed. "The Supreme War Criminal" (1918)-Mr. Lloyd George haying actually won an election with the slogan "Hang the Kaiser!" : "Wilhelm of Doom" (1926)-Herr Hohenzollern having already received from the Reich a sum equivalent to $1,000 for every day since his abdication...
...bear my personal fate with resignation ... I do not care what my foes say about me. I do not recognize them as my judges. . . . He (God) knows why He subjects me to this test. I shall bear everything with patience and await whatsoever God still holds in store...
...ridiculous squabble in Manhattan over the morals of the drama is currently reaching a crisis. The fate of the Citizens Play Jury is in the hands of the law. If this body is declared illegal and inoperative, censorship reverts to the old section 1140 of the penal code which makes it a crime to present an obscene, indecent, immoral and impure theatrical production. The flaw in this statute is the fallibility of human opinion. How is the Grand Jury qualified to decide between indecency and art? Does Eugene O'Neill deserve the same latitude as Shakespeare? Obviously...
...course a far cry to the days when philosophers sat at Paris and decreed the fate of the medieval church and of its imperial counterpart. The university has changed with the philosopher; neither one is today what it was yesterday, and both have windmills which engage their Quixotic thrusts as completely as did the medieval world swing in its material and its spiritual axis about the university philosopher. But that such a change as has come about is permanent and not just the pendulum swing of reaction is a deduction hazardous and frail under the touch of reasoning...
...added a tribute to the late President Roosevelt, who, although Mr. Broun did not say so, apparently was superior to Life and Fate: "The Colonel never reached any great moral conviction except for the Monday morning papers. He was never fool enough to become articulate about public affairs of a Saturday, when his views would have to buck the football games, big fights at the Garden or doubleheaders, as the season warranted...