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...Fifth Pan-American Conference drifted to a rather unsatisfactory end. During its six weeks tenure at Santiago de Chile, no questions of outstanding importance were settled. The Pan-American Court of Justice, the Limitation of Armaments, the American League of Nations, all were left destitute of reality...
...year ago the National League of Women Voters held its annual convention in Baltimore. By its invitation a conference of Pan-American women also assembled there at that time. An inquiring South American delegate, Senorita Mandujano, of Chile, asked for a list of the twelve greatest women in the United States of whom she wished to write for the South American public. The League consented to supply the list...
...main differences between these two Slav States is that Czecho-Slovakia is the enthusiastic exponent of Pan-Slavism, (a doctrine purporting to join up the Slavonic races, which include the Russians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Bulgars, Serbs, Croats) while Poland, remembering her fate as a part of Russia, is strongly against a movement that might eventually resubject her to Russian authority. Another important difference, intimately related to the Pan-Slav question, is that Czechoslovakia is opposed to the award of Galicia to Poland, because such an arrangement interferes with Czecho-Slovakian plans for a Pan-Slav corridor reaching from Russia...
...most recently translated novel Hamsun turns away from the epic of the land, such as Growth of the Soil, to a love idyl of lingering beauty and sadness. Victoria is in the pensive manner of Wanderers and Dreamers rather than in the more intense mood of Pan. It concerns the love of Victoria, the daughter of a wealthy, aristocratic landowner, for Johannes, the miller's son. There is not much " story" in the accepted sense, but rather a finespun mood of a sensitive girl whose injustice to her lover brings about tragedy. Hamsun rarely unwinds a yarn merely...
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