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Germany, as soon as the Experts' Plan has started to function, is to be treated more as a business partner of the Allies and Associated Powers than as an ex-enemy State, from which payments have to be forced. There will be control of German finance, of German commerce, of German industry; but none of these can possibly succeed unless German goodwill is shown. Moreover, Germany will have a distinct interest in cooperating with the Allies and their friends, because, through working the Plan, Germany cannot fail to increase her prosperity, which in turn may go far to stabilize...
...Committee? What manner of man is Zinoviev? The Executive Committee of the International is, of course, the governing body of Communism. Theoretically it is separated from the Soviet Government, but actually it is the most important branch of that body, controlling foreign policy and spending Government funds. Its prime function is the propagation of Communism throughout the world-a call to the world proletariat to throw off the capitalist yoke, overthrow the existing government, proclaim a dictatorship. "Workers of the World, Unite!" That is its slogan...
...false gusto, a few simple truths about Art, pointing out that Art, like Nature, never dies, that the old masters of today were once contemporaries, a fact too frequently forgotten by their exclusive worshippers, that the contemporaries of today will be the old masters of tomorrow, and that the function of the enlightened is to select them. He dwelt with considerable warmth on the part which Art and its appreciation plays in overcoming national prejudices, and securing international concord, concluding with a tribute to French genius...
...sigh of relief drifted up from the hall to the speaker's stand. This meant, of course, the abdication of the Convention, and the resignation of its functions to a committee. But as all legislative bodies learn, sooner or later, so this Democratic Convention has learned that business has to be done in committee, if one wants secrecy and dispatch, and then merely be ratified afterward on the floor . . . Once more pure democracy, or the form of pure democracy, which always is the cloak for some sort of oligarchy, had been replaced by representative government where the oligarchy could frankly...
...among his pillows, wracked, without a thought of himself. It was literally true, Cobb of The World was thinking of the world. He said to me : "Theodore Roosevelt, succeeding to William McKinley as President, fell heir to an almost perfect party machine, which never in his time failed to function. Today Republican leadership is bankrupt, rent by volt.' " faction, oppressed by mutterings of revolt...