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...nations can settle their disputes in private and can thumb their noses at Geneva fireworks. But even Mexico and the United States seem to gain little amity by their isolation from councils and permanent seats. Just what has caused the latest row will be Professor Hackett's subject tonight at 8 o'clock in the Common Room of Conant Hall. Professor Hackett is a visiting lecturer from Texas, so he ought to know...
...political common sense. The deputies indulged in one more fling at legislative obstruction and partisan intrigue. They forced the resignation of the Briand Cabinet. They left France without a Government at the very moment when she needed all her prestige in the extraordinary session of the League at Geneva. (See LEAGUE.) They repudiated both Premier Briand and Finance Minister Doumer, who have labored since the first of the year to evolve a finance bill, of any sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous...
Sleeper. As Sir Austen Chamberlain rumbled toward the Gare du Nord, Paris, on his way to Geneva, a man was observed asleep in a motor car parked near the Nord station. A tired smile faintly curved his lips as he slept and a cigaret burned ever nearer his finger tips...
...exhausted catnapper was M. Aristide Briand?for the eighth time an ex-Premier of France. When Sir Austen's train actually drew in, the indomitable Aristide was on the platform, ready to slip an arm into that of his British friend. Later they left for Geneva together by the same train. M. Briand made it clear, however, that he would not attend the formal League session but merely the far more important preliminaries...
Later Briand returned too, after an exhausting 72 hours at Geneva. He found Paris bubbling with desire that he succeed himself, reform the cabinet. He said he would refuse. "They have broken the dish on my head," he said, "and now expect me to pick up the pieces." He repeated that he would refuse. He conferred with President Doumergue and still said he would refuse. But the pressure was increasing. With a cabinet drawn slightly more from the Left than last time, he could save the day. He still refused, but his friends gave him little rest?little rest...