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...Atlantic as a sentimental hearty of the right sort. Thousands of undiscriminating readers have hailed this blunt-minded Yorkshireman as another Dickens. Though Priestley himself is well aware that the resemblance is meagre ("I am not like Dickens at all"), his latest book may well give the myth a wider circulation. Dickens' sideline was social sympathy; Author Priestley's English Journey, a lengthy digression into the economic back streets of his country, shows the same individualist concern over poverty and ugliness, the same little-English confidence that character will muddle through the worst economic mess...
...will never appeal to the U. S. masses. But the man-in-the-street, more than half right about the smokescreen, would have missed the coal of truth. This week's company of tail-coated diners were delighted to honor a prominent professional but they also represented a wider audience of deeper views. That audience, which has waded through the lengthy Buddenbrooks and clambered up the perilous slopes of The Magic Mountain, will not hesitate to plunge into the bottomless well of Joseph and His Brothers. Readers to whom Thomas Mann is only a newspaper name may well take...
...ever used in naval operations o his native Greece, and the further distinction of having used this sale to frighten Turkey into buying TWO submarines. The Boer War added to his laurels; Boers shot Englishmen with Vickers guns and ammunition. The Russo-Japanese War provided him with an even wider field for his gifts; Vickers sold as much was material (and possibly more) to Russia as it did to Japan, England's supposed ally...
...organization or of a third party. In this condition, those who oppose what is being done are forced to look to the Republican Party as the framework through which to express themselves. The great question therefore is whether the Republican Party will live up to an obligation which is wider than the party...
...great fall in 1931: MacDonald, Philip Snowden and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. The two factions in the Cabinet split wide on Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's plan to break unemployment by huge public works plans. Old George was for it; the Three against it. They split wider on unemployment insurance payments. Snowden, speaking of "treasury difficulties and impaired credit," favored increasing the premiums or reducing the benefits. Old George wanted neither. He told Snowden: "I never have been able to understand treasury economics. ... I can't see that ?20 taken from a rich man and given...