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...Chinese blood. Such spilling is war. declared China's League Delegate, Dr. Alfred Sze, at Geneva last week, again demanding that the League intervene. Resolved to keep China's Sze and the Japanese delegate Kenkichi Yoshizawa from actually clawing each other's throats. League Secretary Sir Eric Drummond put the furious Orientals for a time in separate rooms. In a third room (while European members of the Council sat in a fourth) was the U. S. "observer," Minister to Switzerland Hugh R. Wilson. Mr. Wilson disagreed with Dr. Sze that Japan had violated the Kellogg Pact...
...drapery dropped and there, in bronze, sat the late great Author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester was "Casterbridge" in Hardy's Wessex novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native. He died near there three years ago (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). When the monument-designed by Eric Henri Kennington and paid for by the writer's admirers all over the world -was unveiled, Sir James made known an obscure fact about Hardy's life...
...years ago Sir Eric Geddes tried to save the country's credit by ruthlessly suggesting economies. Had only 10% of his recommendations been carried out we would not now be in this predicament...
...Engaged. Eric Martin-Smith, 22, Cambridge student, new British amateur golf champion (TIME, June i); and Joan Surtees, great-granddaughter of Robert Smith Surtees, oldtime sporting novelist (Jar-rocks's Jaunts & Jollities, Handley Cross...
...finals were played between two young Bachelor Club members, Eric Martin-Smith and John De Forest. Martin-Smith, a Cambridge undergraduate, showed traces of the style which enabled his father, a London banker, to play for England against Scotland 20 years ago. The coal-tycoon father of John De Forest had sent his son to the U. S. a year ago as a reward for good golf in last year's championship. In the U. S., John De Forest was shown how to putt by Stewart Maiden, Bobby Jones's teacher, but it did not seem...