Word: post-war
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...Lloyd George's triumphant defense of his policies before the House of Commons yesterday, he laid his finger with characteristically severe touch on the outstanding sore spot in European politics-the reparations problem. A large part of all the post-war difficulties centers about the amount of the payments exacted from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles; and yet, as Lloyd George has said, the treaties did not cause the reparations. Their creation is due to the fact that there is something to repair. If the Versailles compact is altered, the burden is merely shifted from Germany to France without...
...editorial writers there. At a time when our own newspapers are filled with wild conjectures as to the financial status of Germany and Austria, for instance, the facts which are published in Vienna and Frankfurt are of more than passing concern. And thirdly, all who are interested in the post-war renaissance of music, literature and art, will be able to keep in touch with what is going on in the very centers of revival by reading the pages of papers from Milan, Geneva and Vienna. Add to the list of men who will make use of the new files...
...Dramatic Club, in its post-war rejuvenation adopted a bold policy in devoting itself to presenting foreign plays never before produced in America. Only the success which attended the performances this year and last would have justified such an ambitious program. The Dramatic Club is not yet able to go on tour even in America. In the meantime, reversing Mahomet's expedient, it is bringing plays from all the corners of the world to its local public. Perhaps in time it will find that its name has become as well known as if it had performed for a season...
Whatever atrocities and cruelties occurred during the War, they are dimmed in comparison to those wrought in the post-War period due to the unheard of Chauvinism and the economic brutalities, as well as the severest militarism that the world has ever seen. The disgraceful deed begun in Versailies, when all the high ideals for which the Entente pretended to fight were thrown everboard, must be understood in its true light and revised, otherwise no peace can come to the world and new catastrophes must follow...
...audience representative of musical Boston assembled Monday evening in Jordan Hall to hear the concert given by the Hoffman String Quartet, for the first time in its post-war personnel--consisting of Jacques Hoffman, first violin; Ernst Hoffman, second violin; M. Artiere, viola; and Carl Barth, 'cello. The entire program was not only interesting, but was performed with a keen and discriminating understanding of the scores...