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Yardstick Across Knee. To appreciate the French note one must recall that when President Hoover's disarmament plan was first broached its two chief points were: 1) reduction, not mere limitation of armaments; and 2) reduction according to a mathematical formula, the "Hoover yardstick." Furthermore the principal achievement of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald at Washington was their public joint statement exalting the Kellogg Pact as the cornerstone of peace and disarmament, and their private decision that the question of "freedom of the seas" should not be raised at the London conference...
Such words are nothing short of first, reproaching the President with abandoning his major premise, reduction of armaments, then breaking the "Hoover yardstick" across one's knee, and finally waving the red rag of the League of Nations at a Republican to see if he will charge...
Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Acting Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, is tired of having Ambassador Herbette walk in with diplomatic notes from powers who do not recognize Soviet Russia. He was tired the first time it happened. When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sent a reminder of Russia's obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to encroach upon China (TIME, Dec. 16), Bear Litvinov received it courteously enough from Ambassador Herbette, but figuratively growled at Statesman Stimson: "Mind your own business!" This time he was in an even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy...
Young Fascists, opening their New Year's copies of Tricolore, the Young Fascists' weekly magazine, were treated to a special contribution from the most prominent of all Young Fascists last week, the first instalment of a full length blood-and-thunder novel entitled La Camorra ("The Black Hand") by Vittorio Mussolini, II Duce's plump and swarthy 14-year...
Sniffing down the trail of applesauce, old-fashioned Turks saw the insidious influence of the American College for Girls penetrating to the very fundamentals of Turkish life, obtaining an ascendancy first over the Minister of Education and then over his friend and accomplice in applesauce, the Police Commissioner, finally altering even the carbohydrate menu with which Turkish officials have for centuries applied the gastronomic third degree...