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Since the Anglo-Saxon nations have decided for conventional security by majority vote, they have taken much of the more blatant drama out of government. For the thrills of sovereignty, a cabled connection with dictators or a censored story of revolution must suffice. When ballots replaced bullets in the determination of national policy, the obvious excitement left political life. In its place remain subtleties of verbal by play which not all can applaud...
Significance. The report represents an affirmation in principle of the Anglo-U. S. theory that disarmament must be confined to "actual" weapons, while at the same time allowing full investigation of the Latin nations' insistent proposals that "potential" weapons be also considered. As everyone knows, these divergent views have been loudly and publicly aired for months (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.) by Viscount Cecil (Britain) and M. Paul-Boncour (France...
...Premier of Egypt in 1924. He resigned (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) upon the exaction by Britain from the Egyptian Government of a �500,000 ($2,300,000) "fine" and other humiliating concessions because of the asassination by seven Egyptian students of Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
This moderate offer, unsatisfactory though it is from the human standpoint, is probably the best practical plan for placing the coal industry on a sound basis. With British fondness for the workable solution, the disputants will in all probability accept the Premier's offer in principle. Anglo-Saxons have no desire to chase immaterial utopias...
...unnecessary and inappropriate?for Havelock Ellis is neither sensational nor combative?to suggest, as does his flamboyant biographer, that he is another Leonardo, a Professor, a Nietzschean superman, an Anglo-Saxon Tagore, a full-blooded Shaw, a Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted Tolstoi" and "the complete anti-Kipling." It appears, simply, that if life is a dance, as Ellis has suggested, then he is one of the greatest, gravest dancing masters, a sane anarchist with a cosmic sense of humor...