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Monday. At Geneva, the Assembly of The League of Nations met beneath the glare of "movie arc lights," and chose Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, to chairman a committee created to pass upon Germany's "credentials" and report (perfunctorily, of course) upon the eligibility of Germany to enter the League...
Since no French Cabinet existed, owing to the fall of Briand, who had not yet reformed his ministry (see FRANCE), the representatives of the Powers assembled at Geneva delayed taking action of any sort until the temper of the forthcoming French Government should be known...
...representatives of the Powers assembled at Geneva (see THE LEAGUE) literally marked time early in the week until a Government should be formed in France to take the place of M. Briand's eighth Cabinet, which fell (TIME, March 15) when the Deputies voted down Finance Minister Doumer's "sales tax" clause in the long: disputed Finance Bill. (TIME, Jan. 4 et seq.) Under the circumstances, both President Doumergue and former Premier Herriot, leader of the potent Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties) decided that, in order to bolster up French prestige before the world, M. Briand must...
Eight Hours. M. Briand frankly made haste. Since he was going to resume the trying helm of France, he had every reason for wishing to grasp it firmly and at once, so that he could return plenipotent to Geneva. Within eight hours he had assembled what was at once nicknamed...
Even professors get the Wanderlust at times and stray from the straight and narrow of their academic paths. Professor Young has left his own rostrum to shed light on international matters in Geneva but at 9 o'clock this morning he is going to visit Economics 2 in Harvard 1, where he will discuss the problems of money and banking in England that were caused by the wandering around Europe of Corsica's most famous citizen. It is only fair for me to make the retort courteous to my most illustrious disciple and vagabond with...