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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disrupt the work of the Second Dawes Committee at Paris (see above) which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan. As a result of this ticklish situation- with billions in the balance-the achievements of the League statesmen at Geneva last week were only these: 1) They debated ad infinitum and post-poned to next June for further debate the so-called "minorities question." 2) They applauded announcements by Germany's fat Dr. Stresemann and Poland's lean August Zaleski that these nations are now "ready" to ratify the international protocol prohibiting employment of poison gas and bacteria...
...screws they use franchises and senators. I have three special aversions. They are Meddlesome Methodists, edifying editors and righteous realtors. No law shall ever prevent me from eating and drinking when and whatever I please. The old Romans put their amphitheatres to the right uses when they cried Ad leones Christians! . . . These Christians have caused more human wretchedness, misery and bloodshed, than any plague, pestilence or famine. - - - -! †HENRY J. WEEKS...
This reductio ad absurdum of a current foible which has given rise even in shrewd New England to vast consignments of "Mayflower" furniture may cause a smile. But the Levantine inhabitants of Charles Street will still learn to find their appreciation of the marvelous powers of the father of their new country in the value with which he endowed the chairs in which he once found rest...
...College is run by temperamental Student Council Reports, graduate school students are social pariahs because they have lost "the true Harvard bloom", and, most significant of all, the "cozy collegetts" (Mr. Roberts' nomenclature for the units of the House plan) constitute an artificial attempt to eradicate snobbery,--and ad infinitum...
...Council. If 51% of the electorate vote "yes," the entire slate will be declared elected, and Italy will have a 100% Fascist Chamber. Jokers in the law will almost certainly prevent a 51% vote of "no"; but in that remote contingency new elections would be held, and so ad infinitum until Fascismo triumphs. There are no local constituencies under this mock electoral procedure. In U. S. terms this would mean that the whole nation would vote to elect or reject a Congressional candidate in, for example, Rhode Island or Arkansas. ? See page 329 of The Life of Benito Mussolini...