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When the Boston fire of 1872 threatened to destroy the First National Bank, its cash was removed for several days and worried bankers set up a day & night watch over it. Meanwhile they were fed by Boston's famed Parker House. One day last week the Parker House again went to the First National's assistance. Ten minutes after closing, workmen set about removing grills, glass desk tops, accounting machines and money from the bank's vaulted granite lobby and into their place went 12,000 glasses, 700 trays, 2,000 qt. of liquor...
...never joined the League of Nations when it would have done the most good, and we failed to give our full support to Great Britain's earnest efforts to provide for international consultation in case of war. We have primly stood aside and watched the democracies of Europe destroy one another with exorbitant tariff walls and injure the cause of peace by their own petty jealousies. Our stand-offish attitude has split the solidarity of those nations working for peace and the respect of international law, while it has also encouraged the marauding lawless powers to grow increasingly reckless...
...east of that line from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. A fleet of Chinese bombers was preparing to make a desperate effort to break Japan's blockade of her coast. Still another fleet of twelve Chinese bombers formed themselves into a ''suicide squad" sworn to destroy the recently established Japanese naval base at Pratus Shoals, 200 mi. southeast of Hong Kong. Each pilot, gunner and observer was insured for $10,000, the policies payable to the flyers' families. Off to an unknown base in southern China they flew. By week's end no word...
...Government have sought some pretext for active co-operation with the French Navy and use of its bases in the Mediterranean by the British fleet. Last week the decisions reached fortnight ago at Nyon for naval co-operation by Britain and France to patrol the Mediterranean and destroy "pirate submarines"* (TIME, Sept. 20), were whipped into final shape at Geneva by the two foreign ministers chiefly concerned, Britain's Anthony Eden and France's Yvon Delbos. They used the Hotel des Bergues, where many of the League of Nations' most vital decisions are made in bedroom conferences...
...Nyon last fortnight and at Geneva last week, invited Italy to undertake an anti-pirate patrol only in the Tyrrhenian Sea immediately adjoining Italy, while Britain and France are to patrol the Mediterranean proper. This joker invitation said in effect: "As you are the Pirate, we intend to destroy your pirate ships everywhere except in your back yard, and we invite you to destroy them there!" This seemed in London and Paris to be just about diplomacy's best joke of the year, but in Rome it did not take Benito Mussolini long to see that he could turn...