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...Meade Minnigerode-Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). "The dreadful sleazy, treacherous inside story'' of the French Revolution, told by a tireless researcher. Apparently unconcerned with economic or social forces. Biographer Minnigerode describes in overabundant detail the career of Baron de Batz. instigator of many of the excesses of the Terror. The serious reader, if undeterred by the frenetic prose, may pick his way through this maze of personalities to an elaborate but convincing expose of the technique of counterrevolution...
...name of "strike", the Student Union's Peace Committee can at last take credit for raising Harvard pacifistic celebrations to the level of reason and respectability. An attitude of calm and mature deliberation held sway in Sanders Theatre yesterday which marks a decided improvement over the late reign of terror on Widener's battle-scarred steps and will inevitably do more real good for the cause of peace. Professional patriots like the Legion cannot attack the gathering at Sanders as they handled rebellious Chicago school children, or obfuscate the appeal of men such as Prall and Darvall by throwing...
...Volume II the Webbs answer the question: Where is Russia's system heading? To those who still shudder over the barbarity with which the kulaks were "liquidated," and the secret terror of the Cheka, they reply that the facts cannot be blinked ("There is, we fear, no reason to doubt the reality of the 'Red Terror' any more than that of the 'White Terror' "), but that such grisly facts are a temporary phenomenon. They point out that Russia's social, political and religious revolutions were all concentrated in one swoop, whereas in England...
...about six thirty last night, his hair disheveled, his the awry, and his clothes generally askew. On his face there was the look of a hunted man. The genial smile which usually characterizes the dapper old fellow was lost in an expression that can be described only as haunted. Terror, sheer stark terror gleamed in his eyes...
...killed in the Civil War. Last week Blacksmith Howell's 22nd child was indicted by a Federal grand jury in Atlanta for misusing WPA funds. And Blacksmith Howell's 23rd and last offspring declared that the charge marked the beginning of a New Deal "reign of terror" in Georgia...