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Some Northern Writer. The results, to be sure, were not so conclusive as they had been in the recent mayoral elections in Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Lindsay lost by only 1.5%, and even in defeat has a good chance of re-election in November on the tickets of New York...
Watt's account ranges beyond Versailles to the tormented terrain under angry debate at the peace meetings-fast-changing, impoverished postwar Germany as it struggled to survive the chaos of surrender. Absorbed in private rancors, busy reshuffling peoples and national borders, the Allied statesmen paid little heed to the...
History has often slighted such moderates, the well-meaning, badly organized Social Democrats in particular, perhaps because they ultimately proved to be the losers. Yet Watt makes a persuasive case that, given a little help from the Allies and their own countrymen, they might have steered Germany in the direction...
Stab in the Back. The Allies, Watt suggests, might have been able to prevent this vicious right-left polarization of Germany. Instead, by imposing a Carthaginian peace, they undercut the moderates and strengthened extremists. The Versailles Treaty ceded parts of German territory to other nations and burdened Germany with staggering...
Glazier has seemingly faded into and faded out of the Harvard political scene this year--rising to local and even national fame through his leadership of the moderates in the Strike. From his cramped single on the top of Kirkland House and back into it, he has only been a...