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...insertion into the League Covenant of Article XVIII, whereby League-Member-States are obliged to deposit all their international treaties and agreements with the League Secretariat, which is likewise obliged to make them public as soon as possible. Mr. Wilson considered the establishment of this practice a virtual death blow at "secret diplomacy...
...British press variously described the trial as "a blow to liberty" (Laborite Daily Herald) and "a victory for civilization" (Conservative Morning Post). Between these two extremes, the Westminster Gazette took occasion to lament that a whiff of politics was undoubtedly apparent to squeamish noses at the trial, and quoted: "It is not enough that justice should be done-it must appear to be justice...
...TIME, Oct. 26). One month ago it chronicled the "promotion" of handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to the rank of Queen, adding that a royal birth, the first in Siam for 32 years, was shortly expected (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week it deplored amid bitter lamentations a swift two-edged blow of fate...
Well might the deputies howl. The majority of them, however, as loyal Fascists, howled for the bill, not against it. Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, bellowed: "I exult in the bill as a death blow to the liberal democratic system of government!" Another prominent Fascist cried: "It transfers sovereignty from the People, a mere mass of ignorant beings, to the Nation, juridically organized in the State...
...racing against each other over a six-mile trail for the hill-and-dale intercollegiate championship of the East. All the way the rangy man (James Loucks, Syracuse) had been pressing the runner in crimson (Willard L. Tibbets, Harvard). But now, as he turned his head, Tibbets saw Loucks blow a bead of sweat from the end of his nose, lift his chin and drink a great gulp of air. Yes, in another moment Loucks would sprint. Tibbets could see the finish, the crowd around the tape. It was just too far away; if he let himself...