Internationaler Tonfilm? (1931) Der stumme Film war keineswegs in dem Sinne international, in dem die landwirtschaftlichen Maschinen und die Kragenknöpfchen es sind. Gewiß, da er das Glück hatte, keine Worte machen zu müssen – es sei denn in den Bildtiteln, die leicht übersetzbar waren –, konnte er überall hindringen, wo man zu sehen verstand. Aber die Sprache der Bilder ist kaum minder national bedingt wie die der Musik. Und so wenig die musikalische Ausdrucksweise eines Volkes einem anderen ohne weiteres einzugehen vermag, ebensowenig entsprechen die visuellen Verständigungsmittel der verschiedenen Nationen von vornherein einem natürlichen Esperanto. […]

The undersigned writers, comprising amongst them men and women of the most divergent political and social views, some of them having been for years ardent champions of good will towards Germany, and many of the extreme advocates of peace, are nevertheless agreed that Great Britain could not without dishonour have refused to take part in the present war. [...]

The world has just passed through an agony of pain compared to which the French Revolution was a mere incident. The shock has been so great that it has killed the last spark of hope in the breasts of million of men. They were chanting a hymn of progress, and four years of slaughter followed their prayers for peace. “Is it worth while,” so they ask, “to work and slave for the benefit of creatures who have not yet passed beyond the stage of the earliest cave men?” [...]

''What I envy you is your liberty," observed M. de Bellegarde, „your wide range, your freedom to come and go, your not having a lot of people, who take themselves awfully seriously, expecting something of you. I live," he added with a sigh, „beneath the eyes of my admirable mother." [...]