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...world forum at Geneva, the Conference for the Control of the International Trade in Arms, Ammunition and Implements of War, called by the League of Nations for last May (TIME, May 11 et seq.), came to the end of its labors. Amid the clinking of Vermouth glasses and the attendant sounds of mirth, it was evident that the assembled delegates of 45 nations were well pleased with the outcome of their long negotiations...
...been for the numerous discussions of the war between France and the Riffians (TIME, May 11 et seq.), it would have been impossible to imagine that there was a war in Morocco; for all that a few miserable, North African despatches had to say last week was confined to the vague fact that the Riffians attacked, were repulsed...
...July 1, the date the U. S. Immigration Law of 1924 was enacted (TIME, June 2, 1924, et seq.), Japan will commemorate Humiliation Day, if the Pacific Civilization Society and kindred organizations have their...
Larded only with an interval for luncheon, there were two lengthy prayers, five musical selections, the conferring of degrees, and 16 speeches by the Young Gentlemen on such subjects as De Fructu ex Auctorum Gracorum et Latinorum Lectione Assidua, Percipiendo; On the Distinct Province of Poetry and Eloquence; On Sensibility to Public Opinion; The Pleasures and Effects of Early Friendship; On the Maxim that Virtue Is Essential to the Character of an Orator; a "dispute" On the Comparative Pleasure Derived from the Works of Art and Nature; a "colloquy" On Alison's Theory of Taste...
...Arctic Circle kept its secret a fourth week. With Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway, and his air pilot, Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, still missing somewhere up towards the Pole (TIME, June 1 et seq.) the Norwegian steamer Ingcrtrc, sent to rescue them, dropped anchor in a Spitzbergen fjord. A party of aviators aboard her unlashed their two seaplanes and waited for Amundsen's base ship, the Fram, to come back from the icefloes with a weather report before taking off for a flight to inspect horizons further north...