1. 253) wrote, " [i]n Germanic law, each contract, sale or purchase, loan or deposit, entails a "gage" or collateral: one partner is given an object, generally something of little value like a glove or a price of money (Treugled), a knife, or perhaps -as with the French -a pin or two, and this is returned when the thing handed over is paid for;As Mauss,1925
2. Gide and other Durkheimians like Georges Scelles were hopeful that many "tendencies leading toward regional associations," and "other forms of supranational groupings" would take a life of their own (Ray 1925a, p. 704, 705), nourished by the exchange of gifts, which would make European solidarity manifest. They were proven wrong, as anti-Semitism was not only rising in Germany, but also in France, where the electoral victory of L�on Blum and the SFIO in;) writes, that the leader of the nation "would do something that takes no time to do, something that does nothing -but authorize,1924