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...Duce also urged that the defeated "enemy countries" (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria) should enter the E. U. on "equal terms" with the victor states? that is, these nations should be permitted to re-establish their armies. This reply ranged Italy beside Germany in seeking revision of the Peace Treaties?a policy anathema to France. In Moscow the Soviet newsorgan Pravda, while appreciative of Italy's attempt to include Russia in the E. U., declared that, in view of the program of revision which Germany and Italy are seeking to force upon unwilling France, "the Briand scheme may be considered exploded...
...every German crisis there is always Article 48. Under this emergency provision of the Weimar Constitution: "The President, in the event that public security and order in the German nation should be considerably disturbed or endangered, may take all necessary measures to re-establish such public security and order, and, if required, to intervene with the aid of armed power. To this end he may provisionally abrogate, in whole or in part, the fundamental laws...
Controlled by Baltimore interests, the company will establish next June the first direct trans-Atlantic passenger service out of Baltimore since the War. Freight and mail (the company has an encouraging governmental mail contract) will be the most important revenue sources. The company will operate five oil-burning ships between Baltimore and Hamburg, must build others to hold its mail contract. These the U. S. Shipping Board, pleased at Baltimore's maritime enterprise, sold for $30,000 apiece; went further last week and awarded Baltimore Mail a generous loan ($6,540,000 at 3%) to be used for reconditioning...
...went on the Federal statute books amid great legislative turmoil last week, less than one hour before Congress adjourned. It represented a major reversal of the policy of compensating World War soldiers for service disabilities only. Small though the amount of the pensions appeared, they were large enough to establish the principle of civil disability payments which in the course of years will undoubtedly dwarf the pension outlays after all other U. S. wars. Spanish War veterans had to wait 22 years for their civil pensions. World War veterans now begin getting theirs after twelve years...
Scalpers. "For the first time in many years the large majority of theatrical managers can clearly establish that they are in no way involved in ticket graft and have taken definite steps to abolish it." Thus, last week, the League of New York Theatres signalized the fact that it had allied 80% of all Broadway theatres in an effort to curb the rapacity of theatre ticket scalpers. Under the aegis of Producer Arthur Hopkins (president) and Alfred Emanuel Smith (board member), the League had persuaded 16 ticket brokers to subscribe to its principles: 1) not less than...