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When British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden signed the Anglo-Egyptian treaty in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office (TIME, Sept. 7) he intimated that Britain was no longer Egypt's boss but her "partner." As an earnest of good will the British Government promised to urge at Geneva admission of Egypt to the League of Nations, promised to ask eleven other States, which like Britain have long enjoyed extraterritorial rights ("capitulations") for their citizens in Egypt, to surrender them...
...confirmation of this appointment, was the fact that Dean Pound will give a course in the Government Department of the College next year. This course, titled "Government 43, Introduction into the History and System of Anglo-American Law", is in the "middle group", that is, open to both undergraduates and graduates. The new course was announced in the "Announcement of Courses" pamphlet for 1937-38 issued yesterday, and is considered especially valuable for students planning to enter Law School later...
...survey made in Maryland showed that, of 6,642 young women questioned, one had been married at 10, one at 11, two at 12, 12 at 13. 36 at 14. Census records of 1930 listed 4.241 U. S. married women under 15, with ten States recognizing the old Anglo-U.S. common law marriage ages: 12 for females, 14 for males...
...whether there should be an Anglo-American trade agreement, for such a step between the two richest nations in the world would carry more weight than all the 15 trade agreements' so far negotiated. Question No. 2 was whether Britain can afford to make a trade agreement and become dependent on the U. S. for supplies which will be denied her by U. S. neutrality laws if an enemy attacks...
...build what may turn out to be the world's longest pipe line, through Afghanistan and Iran to the Persian Gulf. In size, if not in richness, Seaboard's new Middle Eastern territories will be superior even to those of Britain's great Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Both the Afghan and Iranian concessions are the outgrowth of conversations in 1933 between Charles Calmer Hart, then U. S. Minister to Iran, and his good friend Ogden Livingston Mills, outgoing Secretary of the Treasury. After Mr. Hart resigned as Minister and Mr. Mills returned to private life...