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...Saar plebiscite. The other umpires are Italy's Bindo Galli, president of Genoa's Court of Appeals, and Holland's L. A. Nypel, Supreme Court Justice. The three umpires will try to see that the Saar citizens, including Germans who lived in the area when the Versailles Treaty was signed (June 28, 1919), vote "freely and fairly" on three propositions: going French, going German, or remaining a League protectorate. To Sarah Wambaugh the plebiscite still sounded as simple as President Wilson intended it to be. But the League's Commissioner on the spot, Geoffrey George Knox...
...about 25% by 1938. First year quotas (in tons): Malaya-504,000; Dutch East Indies-352,000; Ceylon-77,000; Sarawak-24,000; Siam-15,000; North Borneo-12,000; India-6,850; Burma-5,150. New planting is practically banned; replanting is held down to 20% of existing area; export of seed to potential rubber regions is forbidden...
...most convenient battle-ground in the world--Manchuria and Siberia. There, of all places, two major powers can fight with a minimum danger of involving the rest of the world, especially the United States. If we must have wars, one can hardly recommend a better fighting locus than this area. If the United States got into a war fought in that area it would be because our people wanted to fight regardless of issues. Manchuria is no Belgium, politically or geographically, and the potential belligerents would doubtless pay a decent respect to our insignificant interests there...
...workers and their employers were patched up, only to be renewed again. Nash workers, their pay difficulties straightened out, again raised the issue that they could not go back to work until Seaman Body Corp. (manufacturers of Nash bodies) settled with its workers. In the Detroit area, a strike threatened by the Mechanics Educational Society (tool & die makers) was called. More than 3,000 tool & die men walked out of 100 small job shops which would not grant their demands for a 20% wage increase, 7-hr. day, 35-hr. week. Last autumn the tool & die makers crippled the entire...
...roaring like a blast furnace. Seven tenants were cooked alive. Week before in New York City six persons were incinerated in tenements. Week before that ten were burned alive. Since Jan. 1, 48 persons have died in 25 tenement fires. After one fire last month in a notorious slum area in which eight lives were lost, 700 tattered moppets marched down to the City Hall bearing banners: "We Don't Want'to Burn to Death." Under New York law a tenement is any building housing three families or more. But to a New Yorker tenements mean those built...