Show i NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N fore YORK several years be la 11 fore romain rolland finished jean christophe christophi leo tolstoi called him the warden of the con coll science of europe rolland holland jn in his quarter come home sHome century exile in to die switzerland he has rem remained 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 france an old man broken and desmall de despairing spalL as the news dispatches report the world seems to have little heeded his impassioned appeals he wants to die in clamecy clemecy Cla mecy the village where he was born the greatest novel of a century possibly ot of many centuries jean Christ christophe ophell has been called by great critics and multitudes ot of lesser lights it was published 1 in 1913 this writer has found few young persons even those majoring in literature who have read it he has found others who have am never heard of romain remain rolland holland the nobel peace prize winner exiled from his country while carl von Os siet sky german nobel peace prize winner was impoverished jailed and harried to his death in in the same years between there is in this age swift obsolescence in the spiritual heritage as well as in machines but another even greater teacher looking sadly down on the multi tude from a hill in teachings jerusalem was will be also unheeded remembered how often would I 1 have gathered thy children together even as a hen gat hereth her chickens under her wings and ye would nott but neither he nor his teaching was ali i together forgotten there will also be those who will remember romain rolland holland when he was exiled from france vast sums of money were offered him it if he be would go to Ai america to write and lecture publicity or any form of self ex is to him profoundly distasteful he withdrew to a secluded villa near zurich switzerland there is one definite attitude in in all these postwar post war writings he had no faith in move he knew ments in idolo righteous Right sous gies right or left can B be cruel he repulsed henri barbusse his charte 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 fichte whom he esteemed he believed only in the inner light never in organization or force but he was not a political agnostic ue he fought and suffered to arouse the world conscience 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 in spirited his life then of tolstoi and shakespeare he has written many times in the last few years that he sees little hope that the world will escape a last devastating war a IT TT WAS reported that sir john reith director general of the british broadcasting corporation was badly licked in that internal dional arabic sir john crooning contest a beaten in while back virtu radio duel ally al all a observers gave the decision to italy if so it probably was the only time he ever lost a contest the tall I 1 bald grim scotsman Is upped to the job of running the imperial airways as a civil arm of rearmament with a sizeable hike bike in salary it Is now a year instead ot of ile he is an engineer and in 1916 was here with technicians checking on war material contracts he like america or americans americana but eased up on us later on running british radio he has been execrated 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 0 consolidated news features feature service |