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Colonel William Mitchell, under court martial (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) , saw hot times in court last week. It seemed that the legal machinery developed more friction than efficiency. The lawyers of the defense and the prosecution objected and objected to their opponents' course. In a goodly number of cases the prosecution was overruled, and there were persons to remark that, however able the Army's trial judge advocates might be, they had not distinguished themselves as trial lawyers...
...Government position was rehashed at length but without significant additions to all that has been said during the past eight weeks (TIME, Oct. 5 et seq.). Dr. Luther declared, for the 100th if not the 1,000th time, that the Allies have agreed and given evidence of their intention to ease up on the Rhineland, that Germany must sign the Treaties and enter the League of Nations in order to thrive in peace, and that in so doing she would not be pitting herself against Russia on the side of the Allies or giving up the possibility of obtaining future...
...port of the Chilean-governed province of Tacna-Arica, to supervise a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge, as arbitrator, to decide the future sovereignty of the provinces of Tacna and Arica, wrested by Chile from Peru when those nations were embroiled in the early '80's (TIME, Aug. 3, et ante...
...ratified the Locarno Treaties by a vote of 375 to 13, thus setting a great seal of triumph upon the labors of two men named Chamberlain, one living and one dead-Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who negotiated the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq., INTERNATIONAL), and Joseph Chamberlain, beloved and fearless Victorian champion of Empire, whose darling wish it was that his son Austen should grow up into a statesman whose diplomacy should transcend even the limits of the Empire...
...Painlevé boldly stated that the factional discord now disrupting French politics (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) had prevented the bill from being anything more than a compromise measure, but added: "I have sought the advice of every party, and if in the end the bill was framed to meet the majority opinion, it was because the minority limited its advice to what the Government should not do. . . . The bill is not perfect. . . . It is a positive and creative measure. . . . Regardez-le bien! . . . Is it not the only really constructive attempt which has been made to deal with the present grave...