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Disarmament by Publicity. Soft as the first rustle of an overture was the Draft (i. e. proposed) Treaty for the International Control of Armaments wafted to Geneva last week by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...promised in the treaty. It is based partly on the British proposal for a similar Permanent Disarmament Commission which was to have had one tooth: the signatories were to promise to "advise" with one another in case of violation. Last week the Conference bureau promised to discuss the U.S. draft next January and most statesmen bandied compliments with Wafter Wilson. Alone did Benito Mussolini's spokesman Marchese Meli-Lupidi Soranga rap out: "My Government may perhaps one day consider the question of control of armaments manufacture, but not before principles have been laid down in regard to quantitative...
...Press suggested that the husky, thick-set host needed money to finish a hydro-electric project, that a mysterious Southwest power deal was afoot, that the utility men were trying to draft Mr. Couch for active command of the Edison Electric Institute during dark political months ahead. It was even hinted that the whole thing smacked of an unholy alliance of Power, Politics, Education and the Courts...
...that around the Stadium, is about all he can do. The college influence has made him quite an aristocrat, but, thank God, we haven't been able to detect any signs of a Harvard accent on him yet. The last mule the Army brought to Cambridge was a draft animal used for dumping the garbage at Fort Banks, but the megaphones seemed to remind him of the garbage cans, and he so persistently kept backing into them to be hitched up that we had to shoot him. But Pete's three years have taught him better than that...
ELEVEN NEW CANTOS-Ezra Pound- Farrar & Rinehart ($1.50). When last year Publisher Farrar brought out the first U. S. edition of A Draft of XXX Cantos (TIME, March 20, 1933), by violent, obscure but famed Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, he did not expect it to land on a best-seller list. Acclaimed by many a critic and fellow-writer as foremost living U. S. poet, Pound is little conned by plain readers. But Publisher Farrar rightly considers him a feather in his cap, continues to publish him in the face of little comprehension, no popular applause...