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President Alessandri's Speech at a Paris Banquet, Preceded by an Explanation of His Political Vicissitudes, by a Chilean Professor

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A Leader of the French Press-World Revisits Germany on a Fog-Clearing
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Glancing through this issue and it's a good one, if we do say so - the alert reader will find his attention attracted by such words as 'Nordic,' 'Race,' and 'SpoonFed Age.' The plump Mr. Belloc does not care for Nordics, with their blond, long, empty heads. Dean Inge, the Jeremiah of London who will soon be bringing his Message of Gloom over to the States, evidently thinks we are not Nordic enough. D. H. Lawrence, himself a Nordic gone Latin, as you might say, finds diversion and literary inspiration among the Hopi Indians of Arizona, who dance about with rattlesnakes clenched between their teeth. Well, they're not spoon-fed, at all events.

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Henri de Kerillis, the direct opposite of Mr. Lawrence and a Latin gone Nordic, has been visiting savage tribes too, only his were in the Sahara, where men are sheiks and women live in harems. M. de Kerillis regards these people with mixed emotions, but with approval on the whole, for who is a Frenchman to object to polygamy? And, besides, they provide a novel sort of spectacle. Grete Diel-you can make your own pun on that name has nothing at all to say in extenuation of the atrocious behavior of the Bedouins, who conducted such a fierce raid on the wounded Germans whom she was nursing in Palestine that even the English forgot the war for a few hours and helped out their fellow Nordics in distress.

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thing in the end. This vigorous republic is inhabited by Latins and exploited by Nordics though the Latins are beginning to wake up. They started to express their disgust in the conventional South American way and held a successful Revolution. Soon after, President Alessandri was off on a speaking-tour in Europe.

Ludovic Naudeau is another anxious Latin. He was led around behind the scenes in Germany, and has a startling tale to tell. By establishing the Rentenmark the hungry haggard Teuton of 1923 is transformed into the hustling healthy German of 1925. He has factories, ships, a big export-business, and a high birth-rate - all of which reminds Frenchmen unpleasantly of 1914.

Tennyson and Margot Asquith — her new name of Lady Oxford sticks in one's throat are a strange pair, and it is a wonder that the magazine does not fall apart with such a clash of personalities going on between its modest covers. Margot is her old self, as full of entertaining gossip as a small-town postmistress, as well posted on the affairs of the day as the British Foreign Secretary. Tennyson's charm is of a different order. He seems somehow a trifle out of date to this generation of Lytton Stracheys and F. Scott Fitzgeralds; but Willingham Franklin Rawnsley, an old friend and cousin-in-law, tells stories of the late laureate, starting in 1850, when Tennyson was munching sage at the Rawnsleys' after breakfast, and going right down to 1892, when Mrs. Rawnsley laid a single wreath on the poet's tomb in Westminster Abbey.

All of which is somewhat removed from the Nordics. But then we have the word of 'A Leading British Authority' that anybody who presumes to talk about race is talking through his hat - and who are we to deny it?

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RATHER notably, three of the four prominent men who passed off the stage of public life abroad last month were Socialists. President Ebert's death removes a moderator of the Republic whose loss is felt by practically all Parties in Germany. Seldom has a man occupying a high post involving so many contentious possibilities won such general esteem. Hjalmar Branting, like Ebert, was a man whom postwar problems brought to the fore. It does not minimize his distinguished career in Sweden to credit his international reputation chiefly to his services at Geneva. He too was a moderating influence, an exponent of sanity and balance in the feverish tribulations of war-torn Europe. Lord Curzon's death removes a pillar of the old diplomacy, a defender of the traditional conception of empire, who distrusted to the last the internationalist tendencies of the present age. Yat-sen's name will be permanently identified with the history of China, although he may be finally rated the Thomas Paine rather than the Alexander Hamilton- and certainly not the George Washington - of the Republic.

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'Almost Puritan uprightness' is a good phrase; but it is a very inadequate description of the more exalted passages of the speech. 'America,' said the President, 'seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to the thought of foreign dominions. The legions she sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the Cross. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.' We do not think we have heard anything quite like that since the war days when Horatio Bottomley and the German Kaiser were in full throat.

The Manchester Guardian is more appreciative:

In his concluding passage, Mr. Coolidge strikes a note that will be heard with deep feeling in countless American homes. His country, he declares, ‘cherishes no purpose the Living Age Co.

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