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...matter how unequivocal this statement may appear, it is actually a statesman's weasel, as appears from the Baron's next sentence: "The proposal of the United States is understood to contain nothing that would refuse to independent states the right of self-defense...
Probing more basically into the world wheat situation, Grand Meunier Vilgrain declared that French wheat kernels have been of poor quality since the War, and do not now contain a sufficient proportion of protein and gluten. This effect has been wrought by the post War shortage of man power on the farms, which has induced land owners to plant a species of wheat seeds giving a greater harvest with less care, but an inferior grade of wheat. For this reason the Grands Moulins de Paris bought 10,000,000 bushels of prime U. S. wheat for milling, last year...
...TIME, April 30). How different is the position of Germany-which has no military alliances-was cleverly emphasized last week, in Dr. Stresemann's note: "The German Government is convinced that . . . the obligations arising from the Covenant of the League of Nations and the [Locarno] Rhine Pact . . . contain nothing which could in any way conflict with the obligations provided for in the draft treaty of the United States...
...Everything must be avoided which contrasts with reserve and modesty which are the ornament and safeguard of virtue. Such instruction must contain no incentive to vanity or violence. If a woman's hand must be raised, we hope and pray it may be raised only in prayer or in acts of charity...
...editing could delete the copybook banalities: moderate exercise (tennis) spells health, health spells good complexion; nor improve the laborious heaping up of sentences that recall Freshman compositions in which every preposition helped to attain the required thousand words. In this case the required 214 pages contain the usual directions for shifting the weight from the right to the left foot; a lucid diagram of the centre theory (advising for net play a deep ball centre, which opens up less of the player's court to the opponent's return); repeated admonitions to practice...