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K J EW YORK—Several years be-
A ’ fore Rain a in Holland finished
•’Jeun Christophe," Leo Tolstoi
called him the wurden of the con
science of Europe.
R o lla n d
In his quarter
C o m ti Hom e
century exile In
Switzerland,
he
To D ir
has r e m a i n e d
"above the battle," warning of war,
decrying hatred, pleading for peace
and understanding. His has been a
voice crying in the wilderness. His
exile ended, he returns to Frunce,
"an old man, broken and despair
ing,” as the news dispatches report.
The world seems to have little heed
ed his impassioned appeals. He
wants to die in Clamecy, the vil
lage where he was borh.
The greatest novel of a cen
tury, possibly of many cen
turies, "Jean Christophe" has
been called by great critics
and multitudes of lesser lights.
It was published In 1913. This
w riter has found few young per
sons, even those majoring in
literature, who have read It.
He has found others who have nev
er heard of Komain Holland, the
Nobel peace prize winner exiled
from his country, while Carl von
Ossietsky, German Nobel peace
prize winner, was impoverished,
jailed and harried to his death in
the same “years between." There
is in this age swift obsolescence in
the spiritual heritage as well os In
machines.
But another, even greater teach
er, looking sadly down on the multi
tude from a hill in
Teachings
Jerusalem,
was
a ls o u nh eed ed :
W ill Be
"How often would
Rem em bered
I have gathered
thy children together, even as a hen
gathereth her chickens under her
wings, and ye would notl”
But
neither He nor His teaching was al
together forgotten.. There will also
be those who w ill remember Ro-
m ain Rolland.
When he was exiled from
France, vast sums of money
were offered him if he would go
to America, to write and lerture.
Publicity, or any form of self-ex
ploitation, Is to him profoundly
distasteful, lie withdrew to a se
cluded villa near Zurich, Switz
erland.
There is one definite attitude in
all these post-war writings. He had
no faith in "move
/ / • K nrui
ments,” in "idolo-
gies,” right or left.
Righteous
C an Be C ru el He repulsed Henri
B a r b u s s e , h is
clarte group and the various "united
fronts," as he did the emissaries of
bloody reaction from the right. He
knew that the righteous can be as
cruel as the wicked, once they find
reliance on force.
Like the great German Fich
te, whom be esteemed, he be
lieved only in the "inner light"
—never in organization or force.
But he was not a "political ag
nostic." He fought, and suf
fered. to arouse the world con
science, as the dying Tolstoi
had enjoined him.
He is a tall, spare, pallid old man,
with thinning hair and sad, deep-
set eyes as he returns to France at
the age of seventy-two. Educated
in music, at the Ecole Normale, he
became a devotee of Wagner,
whose genius inspirited his l i f e -
then of Tolstoi and Shakespeare. He
has written many times in the last
few years that he sees little hope
that the world w ill escape a last
devastating war.
• • •
I T WAS reported that Sir John
* Reith, director general of the
British Broadcasting corporation,
was badly licked in that interna
tional A r a b i c
Sir John
crooning contest a
while back. Virtu
Beaten in
ally all observers
R ad io D u el
gave the decision
to Italy. It so, it probably was the
only time he ever lost a contest.
The tall, bald, grim Scotsman
Is upped to the job of running
the Im perial Airways, as a civil
arm of rearmament, with a
sizeable hike in salary. It is
now $50,000 a year, instead of
$35,000.
He is an engineer, and in 1916 was
here with 600 technicians checking
on war m aterial contracts.
He
didn’t like America or Americans
but eased up on us later on. Run
ning British radio, he has been ex
ecrated as a tyrant, but he has
held to his line and confounded all
his adversaries. His views on radio
programs were outlined by him as
follows: "To set out to give the
public what it wants, as the saying
is, is a dangerous and fallacious
policy.”
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