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...gain the independence now definitely in sight the Philippine Legislature must, within the next year, call a convention to frame a republican constitution. If this document is satisfactory to the U. S. President, Filipinos will vote it up or down. If they accept, a ten-year probationary period under an intermediate government follows, during which U. S. tariff and immigration walls gradually rise against Philippine products and people. On the tenth July 4, the Stars-&-Stripes come down all over the islands except over U. S. naval stations and military reservations. Meantime, the U. S.-which freely admitted after...
...Drive offered nothing more sensational it would remain an interesting cinema document, but it contains also a number of sequences which are less reminiscent of propaganda newsreels released during the War: a mangled soldier being carried into a front line dressing station and coming out with both legs gone; an old Belgian woman sitting in a shell-hole beside the corpse of a soldier and snivelling into his hat; hand-to-hand trench fighting in which, although the photography is somewhat blurred, it is possible to see a real bayonet go through a real soldier; a squad...
...second day of his filibuster Senator Long appeared on the floor in a loose wing collar which gave his Adam's apple greater leeway. To waste time and get a rest, he sent a document to the clerk's desk to be read aloud but Senator Glass, determined to wear out his adversary, objected. Senator Long read it himself, slowly, lingering over each word. "Am I going too fast?" he impishly asked. The Senate was practically empty as he expatiated about decentralizing wealth, remonetizing silver, taxing capital...
...items on French and German tariff lists, the treaty has stabilized rates on these items. Last week Germany and France amended their Treaty of 1927 to permit either party to raise or lower all but a few rates on 15 days notice. Thus they all but tore up a document hailed when it was signed as a. great stabilizer of European trade. Still more ominously they adopted a new interpretation of the so-called "most favored nation clause," which virtually tears that...
...mere chance Citizen Herriot picked up a copy of the 1932 budget which passed the Chamber under Premier Pierre Laval last February and passed the Senate under M. Laval's successor Premier Andre Tardieu. Thumbing through this ancient document-which dates from before the death of Aristide Briand (TIME, March 14); before the French general election which made M. Herriot premier; before the assassination of President Paul Doumer and the election of his successor President Albert Lebrun (TIME, May 16) -thumbing through the hoary pages of the bygone budget, M. Herriot came upon an item...