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...began a poll on pacifism. Northwestern University went even further in imitating Oxford. The local chapter of the League of Industrial Democracy held a debate, presented a resolution which was adopted. 68-to-1, declaring that the audience would not "under any circumstances take part in international war to defend the Constitution of the United States...
...their aides have been remarkably successful in clearly exposing the dirty linen of the financiers, the pending case will offer much more difficulty. Morgan is a power far greater than any the Committee has yet tackled. Harriman and Mitchell are amateurs beside him. Nor will he be hampered in defending himself as the others were by the failure of his banks. He is prepared to defend himself. Still another consideration takes away some of the exhilaration that this attack on the "money-changers" would ordinarily cause. It seems only too probable that it is being offered...
...them once, in the presence of OGPU officials. Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov declared that they would be given a fair and public trial in April, with Russian lawyers assigned to their defense. Meanwhile, panic seized U. S. engineers in Russia who had no embassies at all to defend them. From Moscow a General Electric official telephoned Berlin that he was "unable to hold the men." Hardly had he rung off before 17 U. S. engineers arrived in Berlin. Said...
Paul von Hindenburg swore eternal fealty to the Hohenzollern Crown-yet permitted himself to be elected President. Elected and reelected, he twice swore as President to preserve, protect and defend the Republican Constitution, Article 3 of which reads: The national colors are black- red-gold...
...towering rage, young Marshal Chiang denounced Fugitive Tang as a "traitor to China," ordered his instant arrest if & when caught. Forgetting that he himself swore only a few weeks ago to defend Jehol to the last-as did the Chinese Nanking Government on the pledged word of Acting Premier & Finance Minister T. V. Soong (TIME, Feb. 27)- the Young Marshal tried to blame everything on the Chinese soldiers he had just shut out of China...