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...said that our own country has broken with democracy--that the exigencies of the time have forced even the home of popular government to abandon the faith. Can we compare the course of events here with what has happened in Europe? Dictatorship has been a complete overthrow of representative government as we have come to know it. It is based upon the principle of the Organic State, in which the individual as an end in himself is forgotten. The State has become the Supreme end, and to its greater glory men have become mere instruments. The dictator is the embodyment...
...Unless the British Government goes to the World Economic Conference with a clearcut, well thought out, rational plan, we might as well abandon all hope of any practical result...
...teeth of its own restricted budget, room rents on the whole are still demonstrably too high. The possibility of a further revision, at least as great as that which was made last year, ought to be investigated carefully. One possible way of making such a revision would be to abandon the present arrangement by which tutors in the Houses are not charged for the rooms they occupy. Whether or not this would work too great a hardship financially on the tutorial staff is an undermined point, which the Committee should look into. Remembering that the last Council Report was particularly...
...discretion of Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto as commander of the Japanese forces in the field. . . . Continued Chinese counter-attacks are causing the Kwantung Army to lose patience." Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto lost no time in making a characteristic statement from his headquarters at Changchun: "If the Chinese abandon their challenging attitude and withdraw . . . the Japanese will immediately return to the Great Wall and devote their energies to maintenance of peace . . . but if the Chinese continue their provocations, the Japanese will be compelled to continue the present . . . operations...
...House of Commons to grant it. ''There is no connection between the American action in restoring the embargo on the export of gold and the increase in our exchange [fund] which was decided upon long before we had any conception that the United States Government might abandon the gold standard. . . ." These were soft words for foreign consumption. Hardly was the speech finished before Lombard Street tipsters were insisting that the present ?150,000,000 fund would be raised to ?200,000,000 possibly to ?500,00,000 in preparation for a duel with the dollar. Wrote Economist John...