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...Council's movements last week there was more than one deft finesse,* but by acting under Article XV the following trains of events were made possible. First, the Council, sitting as a Committee of Thirteen (the Italian Councilman and the Ethiopian Delegate being excluded), must draft a fresh League report on Italy & Ethiopia, and last week Communist Councilman Litvinoff of Russia said candidly that he will try to have it made much harsher toward Fascist Italy than the previous report of the Committee of Five (TIME, Sept...
...applied, tempers must soon be lost all around and blood will begin to flow. Last week, though the first step toward sanctions had been taken under Article XV, alternative possibilities were more numerous than neophytes not familiar with League loopholes could imagine. For example the Committee of Thirteen could draft a report such that Ethiopia might reject. Italy accept and the League be compelled to let Italy and other States conduct a war of sanctions against Ethiopia in the role of aggressor or Italy could withdraw from the League, as Japan did when threatened by a Council report, also under...
Although the small Hillsdale (Mich.) County Fair offers only $35 for its biggest prize, year after year the best teams of draft horses in the U. S. are sent there to pull. Reason is, the quack grass of Hillsdale's paddock gives heavy horses good footing and ten world's records have been tugged across its surface...
Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, U. S. Wartime draft dodger resident in Germany, and Bertha Bergdoll: a daughter, their fifth child, the first born in the U. S.; in Philadelphia...
This settlement in draft form was being quietly worked on by the League Committee of Five which last week seemed about to recommend that Italy receive the sort of control over Ethiopia now held by Britain over the nominally "free and independent" Kingdom of Irak. Geneva realists, aware that the British National Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin faces a general election before long, considered Sir Samuel's speech in the nature of an electioneering harangue to British voters, 11,000,000 of whom have just signed a highly idealistic "peace ballot." French voters also must be harangued, and soon...