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...This sudden speed, this series of definite results after long months of oratory and inaction seemed directly traceable to but one new force in international affairs: the friendly, smiling face of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had demanded immediate action on disarmament. He was getting it because the Governments of Europe knew that the word they have been awaiting for the past 13 years was about to come from Washington. Delegates and spectators jammed the galleries of the League's palace in Geneva to hear the third world-speech of the week...
...critic never discussed Marxism, nor Indian affairs with me although he has been living with me for the last two years. All of a sudden, when my article appeared in the "Critic," he thought it his duty to reply. Instead of meeting my thesis honestly, he made a poor reply--a eulogistic daubery of Gandhi...
...Governor Pollard asked Massachusetts' Governor Ely to send Crawford down to stand trial. There were formal hearings. Boston witnesses upheld his alibi. Virginia witnesses knocked it down. A confession was introduced only to be repudiated. Governor Ely signed papers for George Crawford's return to Virginia- when suddenly, last week, in stepped the might and majesty of the Federal Government. Overnight George Crawford became a national headline character potentially as famous as that other obscure Negro, Dred Scott.* Into the Boston court of U. S. District Judge James Arnold Lowell, cousin of Harvard's president, had gone...
...French statesman, every businessman worried. Frenchmen, badly burned by their own inflation of 1924-25. would throw out by nightfall any government that suggested a parallel move. In effect the British loan married the paper pound to the gold franc, made them an effective team to maneuver against any sudden tricks on the part of the dollar. It brought France still another advantage, for no gold will have to cross the Channel to upset foreign exchange further. The Bank of France already holds ?30,000,000 sterling left over from her purchases before the franc was stabilized in 1928. This...
...Suddenly he turns a corner, steps into the full of the strong wind coming out of the southward dusk, laden with the odors of vegetative must. A crabbed, sea-green foam of new leaves leaps about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon strangely bright and noticeable about him, bristling with immaculate greenness. Through the ploughing wind he walks, feeling like a dog whose hair is blown back straight over his eyes, caressed and washed by the rapid air. Only now, through the deep blue dusk, a press of desire comes upon...