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...Signature of France. . . . For 14 years [since the Treaty of Versailles] we have in our international life insisted on the sanctity of the written word! . . . Whatever may happen, what ever may be our passions and quarrels, let us remain faithful to the signature given, so that the document signed will not be a 'scrap of paper...
...President Lowell's term is as completely characteristic of the man as his final report to the Board of Over-seers. Superficially, the document is a terse apologia, a justification of the principles which have guided his policy throughout twenty-three years as Harvard's chief executive. But when he says that "Everything in a University is a means to a distant end," President Lowell is sounding the Keynote not only to his administration but less obviously to this, his final bequest to his successors. With the clear foresight and profound understanding that have distinguished him as a builder...
...Guest Baron Constantin von Neurath, the German Foreign Minister, around from a truculent to a co-operative attitude. When the pallid, pompous Baron reached Geneva last week he carried a proposal for increasing Germany's "defensive armaments'' which struck Messrs MacDonald and Davis as an "alarming document." These proposals they had managed...
...addition to the above-mentioned charge, Dubois was also accused of treating his superior officer with contempt. The charge drawn up in the official document read as follows: "In that Eugene DuBois, now a junior grade Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, while so serving on board the U.S.S. Boylston, did, on or about November 2, 1932, while officer-of-the-deck of the said ship, say in a disrespectful and contemptuous manner to one Edward Hallett Preble, then a Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, who was then and there in the execution of his office, 'You are an incompetent misfit; who told...
...then go before the British Parliament. Knotty constitutional questions to be determined by the Conference include: The relationship between the Federal and the Provincial Units, the relative powers of Indian Legislative bodies and the British Parliament. Friends of India and Britain assume that the Constitution will be an enlightened document, according to British lights...