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...candidates nominated throughout Spain last week "less than 20 are Monarchists" according to an Exchange Telegraph. Thus the new Parliament was expected to draft a Republican Constitution for Spain. But furious fights loom as to the character of the new Republic. Shall it be, as Catalonians and Basques demand, a union of federated states like the U. S. and Germany? Or shall it be, as central and southern Spaniards insist, a republic like France, highly centralized, composed not of sovereign states but of subordinate provinces...
...Provisional Government set July 14 as the day on which a Constituent Assembly will meet in Madrid to draft a new Constitution, set up a Constitutional Government. Elections will be held on June 28 throughout Spain. Whichever party wins more votes than any other one party will receive 80% of all seats in the Constitutional Assembly, the other 20% of seats being distributed proportionally among all other parties...
...used a good many euphemisms during the War for the sake of national morale and this one of 'price-fixing by agreement' is a good deal like calling conscription 'selective service' and referring to registrants for the draft as 'mass volunteers.' Let's make no mistake about it. We fixed prices [during the War] with the aid of potential Federal compulsion and we could not have obtained unanimous compliance otherwise...
Litvinov Pact All peace pacts are nebulous, the Kellogg-Briand Pact notably so. Last week the Litvinov Pact, as presented by its author in the form of a draft protocol, was seen to be a shade less nebulous than most. Full text...
Armies. Last week General MacArthur revealed to the W. P. C. the General Staff's arrangements for a general mobilization. Registered for the draft would be all men from 18 to 45 (the World War draft age was 21 to 30). There would be no exemptions, only deferments. Six field armies totalling 4,000,000 men would be in service within a year, leaving a reserve force of 7,000,000. A new wartime contract to eliminate excess profits would be used for industrial procurement. In readiness are 15,000 manufacturing plants to which the War Department...