Editorials from The Dial magazine, Volume 66

Martyn Johnson ( - 1934)

Editorials published in Volume 66 of The Dial magazine, a fortnightly political and literary review. The source available to us features issues from January 11 to June 28, 1919. This volume illustrates the pacifist and socialist viewpoint of Martyn Johnson (the owner) and the magazine's staff. The magazine experience financial troubles in 1919 and was sold later that year. The magazine was re-directed by its new investors in a direction that was essentially literary in nature and it is this 're-creation' of the magazine that is best known. (Summary by KevinS)

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 On what terms will Russia be permitted to enter the League of Nations KevinS
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Play 02 Superficially, the results of the British elections are discouraging to liberals KevinS
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Play 03 The conventional soldiers' monument ... is not the least ugly by-product of war KevinS
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Play 04 Perhaps the memory that will live most vividly of Randolph Bourne... KevinS
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Play 05 The attitude of The Dial in regard to Russia... KevinS
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Play 06 How much longer will the American public endure our shameful intervention in Russia? KevinS
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Play 07 The Peace Conference is confronted with four groups of questions... KevinS
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Play 08 The program of the New School for Social Research... KevinS
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Play 09 The campaign of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian relief... KevinS
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Play 10 ... demand for the release of political prisoners ... KevinS
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Play 11 The Government is left ... in possession of immense stores of munitions... KevinS
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Play 12 The Russian problem is not the only one affecting Asia... KevinS
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Play 13 The actual outcomes of the recent decisions of the Peace Conference... KevinS
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Play 14 ...the Paderewski faction in Poland... KevinS
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Play 15 ...the espionage habit. KevinS
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Play 16 ...National prohibition... KevinS
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Play 17 What is the background of contemporary French foreign policy... KevinS
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Play 18 ...the [treatment of the] political prisoner... KevinS
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Play 19 ...the political futility and military failure of the ill-starred Allied expedition to North Russia... KevinS
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Play 20 ...the constitutionality of the Espionage Act. KevinS
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Play 21 ...President Wilson's choice of representatives to meet the Bolsheviki... KevinS
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Play 22 The Dial apologizes... KevinS
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Play 23 The routine cause cited for deportation against agitators... KevinS
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Play 24 ...the Russain revolution is of the classic type established by France... KevinS
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Play 25 ...teachers dismissed or suspended from the New York public schools... KevinS
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Play 26 A second case of the interference of freedom of thought or expression... KevinS
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Play 27 ...George Jeffreys, the hanging judge... KevinS
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Play 28 ...the peace terms offered to Germany and Austria... KevinS
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Play 29 The chief immediate value of the Covenant of the League of Nations... KevinS
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Play 30 One of the chief obstacles in the way of a genuine and enduring peace with Germany... KevinS
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Play 31 The Overman Committee... KevinS
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Play 32 Opposed to Colonel Robins in the treatment of social unrest... KevinS
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Play 33 ...blundering policy in regard to the victims of war psychology... KevinS
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Play 34 ...Conscientious Objectors... KevinS
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Play 35 Bolshevism is a menace to the vested interests of privilege and property. KevinS
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Play 36 ...the fable of the Sybilline books was frequently quoted... KevinS
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Play 37 ...the four leading partners [of the Peace Conference] have taken frankly to the practice of secret negotiation... KevinS
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Play 38 "Sabotage" is one of the late and formidable loan-words of the English language. KevinS
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Play 39 ...filibuster... KevinS
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Play 40 ...education... KevinS
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Play 41 ...international cooperation to remove the causes of war. KevinS
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Play 42 ...the Victory Loan... KevinS
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Play 43 The university promises to be the last citadel of sex privilege. KevinS
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Play 44 ...our pedagogy still shows a considerable blind-spot. KevinS
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Play 45 ...the fourteen points... KevinS
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Play 46 ... the attitude of the American people toward the lynching of negroes. KevinS
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Play 47 ...lynching is no longer purely a race problem... KevinS
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Play 48 [police violence] KevinS
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Play 49 The culture of the Nineteenth Century... KevinS
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Play 50 [Immanuel Kant on Perpetual Peace] KevinS
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Play 51 The war was won by America. KevinS
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Play 52 The reasons for the defeat of America are easy to discern. KevinS
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Play 53 The abandonment of the fourteen points... KevinS
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Play 54 [The Peace Conference and its labor commissioners] KevinS
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Play 55 Mr. Wilson either meant his fourteen points honestly or he did not. KevinS
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Play 56 The treaty with Germany should be summarily rejected by the Senate. KevinS
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Play 57 ...the terms of the great peace were drawn to secure two objects... KevinS
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Play 58 The chief use of a League of Nations... KevinS
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Play 59 Today Walt Whitman is one hundred years old. KevinS
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Play 60 Why should nearly everybody indulge a conviction that he can write poetry? KevinS
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Play 61 The men of the Red Special... KevinS
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Play 62 ...atrocities committed by soldiers against their fellow citizens... KevinS
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Play 63 Many readers of the Dial have noted the omission of the price in connection with the titles of books being reviewed. KevinS
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Play 64 The treaty with Austria... KevinS
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Play 65 ...however much the Allies may want a League of Nations, they want other things more. KevinS
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Play 66 President Wilson's recent speeches in Paris... KevinS
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Play 67 The American Federation of Labor... KevinS
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Play 68 Panem et Circenses... KevinS
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Play 69 Benjamin Glassberg has been dismissed from the New York public schools... KevinS
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Play 70 ...in these days of popular education everyone writes, or threatens to do so... KevinS
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Play 71 ...the vicious constitution of the Great Powers at Versailles... KevinS
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Play 72 ...the thirty-ninth annual convention of the American Federation... KevinS
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Play 73 ...anti-radical bill introduced by Senator King... KevinS
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Play 74 Why does America produce so little serious fiction of good quality? KevinS
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Play 75 [The Peace Conference and the Covenant of the League of Nations] KevinS
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