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...Shakespeare, says Author Spencer, who best reflected in his plays the terrible split in men's minds between the old order and the new skepticism. In Richard II, Shakespeare showed the tragedy of a monarch who believed that the trappings of kingship were what made a king. In Henry V, he showed a king who knew "the hollowness of . . . ceremony" and became great by rejecting his youthful dissipation and embracing the just and divine ideals of the perfect monarch. Hamlet's world was shattered when his mother, the Queen, married her late husband's brother before...
Another danger, soberly noted Britain's New Statesman and Nation, is that if the United Nations are permitted to split into their component blocks after the war, "then quite obviously ... an imperial America, conscious of its new strength, will seek to dominate; a proud Britain, fearing a greater rival, will jealously watch every American advance; a suspicious Russia, finally disillusioned about the hope of cooperating with the capitalist host, will concentrate on the organization of power within her frontiers, and a renascent China, potentially more powerful than any other block, will seek to develop her limitless resources without incurring...
...will need no Lebensraum outside its own frontiers. It demands no share in colonial oppression. . . . The aim of ... German Socialists is a European Federation . . . which . . . will provide for self-determination by all nations, [with] its goal the free economic cooperation of nations which enjoy extensive autonomy but are not split up by customs and military barriers...
...nobody heard much about it. But last week came bad news that got around: at Kaiser's Portland (Ore.) Swan Island yard the newly delivered 16,500-ton tanker Schenectady suddenly broke in half with a thunderous snap, settled in the water with its two-inch steel plates split clean asunder, the midship sections sticking out of the water like crags...
...follows this metaphysical reasoning to the bitter end, the Farm Bloc will try to smash the new ceiling to bits. Best augury for its enforcement is the fact that the Farm Bloc is to some degree split: livestock producers perhaps can be played off against grainmen. On the rule of divide and conquer, the Administration...