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...hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during the long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm of George...
...that the World Court, although it may have been created as a result of an article in the League Covenant, is not an organ of or dependent in any way upon the League of Nations. We want to be sure that our entry into the World Court will not commit us, even indirectly, to the endorsement of or guaranteeing League policies. This is far more important than it seems on the surface. The European Powers which control the Council of the League of Nations submit to the World Court only questions which they cannot settle themselves or for which they...
...could not be found who did not state in definite terms that they were incontrovertibly prejudiced in favor of the defendant. Yet the case against Blazer was clear. The question raised by the disqualified jurymen involved an exceedingly subtle definition of law, an exceedingly complicated issue of ethics. "To commit murder you have to kill a human being, haven't you?" they asked...
...policy he intends to pursue in his new incumbency. There is an issue at Wisconsin: the regents' resolution to accept no more endowment funds from incorporated educational foundations (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). But Dr. Frank has only just gone on the scene. He is not one to commit himself. With a shrewd editor's talent for making nothing sound like something, said he: "If the facts warrant, I am willing to be as reactionary as the Czar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday. ... I feel the only person worth bothering about...
...whitehaired, banker and lawyer, former engineer in the A. E. F. (with rank of Brigadier General) was elected. His vote was more than twice that of his competitors. His attitude on the Mitchell question may be gathered from his statement: "The American Legion has not and will not commit itself as a body to the support of Colonel Mitchell or his theories...