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League of Nations?"Our country has definitely refused to adopt and ratify the covenant of the League of Nations. . . . The incident, so far as we are concerned, is closed...
This attitude was aggravated by the recent Franco-Belgian agreement with the German industrialists (TIME, Dec. 3), which was said to constitute a threat to Britain. The line of argument which Britain will adopt is that "the occupation of the Ruhr is illegal and cannot be justified"; that a settlement with the German industrialists was agreed to by them under duress and is 'without effect...
...Orthodox (Russian and Greek) Churches together this week. It is the matter of the calendar. Representatives of the Pope, of the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Ecumenical Patriarch are sitting together at Geneva for the first time since 1453. All three Churches are now deciding whether they can adopt a fixed date for Easter...
...Animals adopt the structural formation of the surroundings in which they live for several generations. For instance: the octopus adopts the same texture and form as the sea bottom, the grasshopper assumes the characteristics of a blade of grass...
...this pronouncement. ) "Your unanimous agreement against the return of the Hohenzollerns will be known this evening throughout the world. . . . I ask you to pass judgment on the attitude of a Government which would have preferred immediate, rapid sanctions, but which, to avoid a break with the Allies, preferred to adopt their point of view...