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...world knows of the Hungarian franc forging scandal (TIME, Jan. 18 et seq.), as a result of which it appeared for a time that the whole Hungarian Cabinet would be branded as the accomplices of forgers. My guide informed me that Premier Count Stephen Bethlen has been entirely whitewashed by the courts; but on the morning when I arrived the Count proceeded to make a show of his complete innocence by resigning with his cabinet. The Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, thereupon paraded his confidence in Premier Bethlen by refusing to accept his resignation. My guide winked assurance that the Premier...
...resigned as leader of the once great Liberal party. Lord Oxford and Asquith's resignation has loomed as inevitable since he and Mr. Lloyd George quarreled openly last May as to the attitude of their party (Liberal) toward the general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq). Asquithians insisted that the general strike must be crushed as a viper attacking the Constitution. Georgians were for a settlement by compromise. It remained only to see in what manner the aged Earl of Oxford and Asquith would lay aside the weary cares of Liberalism. Last week he wrote in explanation...
TIME (Oct. 4, page 12, column 1) makes the following statement, "After Cadet Summerall won his Phi Beta Kappa Key at West Point, et cetera...
Three years ago Samuel Gompers journeyed to the American Federation of Labor convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923, et seq.). His little cloth bunny was his mascot, a raggedy image of Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit whose nimble wits were so like Gomper's own. At that convention he was jubilant, declared: "On my honor as a man and as an adopted citizen of the United States,* with all sympathy for other people in their struggles toward realization of an ideal of freedom, I declare that I believe the Republic of the United States...
...year ago the annual convention, in Atlantic City (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.), with William Green, President, with Samuel Gompers gone, was as though without vitality. President Green showed himself wary, not one to alter or elaborate the philosophy of U. S. labor that Samuel Gompers formulated...