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...else the delegation of Italy as well as that of Germany and Japan will be missing from Geneva. Coming as an anti-climax to the recent flood of nationalistic out-bursts, Italy's cry seems too obviously a bid to be heard, a youngish boast of a rising power henceforth to be reckoned with by the other big powers. But reform of the League of Nations' covenant is and has been an urgent necessity for a decade. If Germany and Italy can manipulate France into a conciliatory mood, these reforms might be effected. France, however, has consistently weaned the League...
When the German phantasy "Barbering," despite the drafts and poor projection facilities of the Germanic Museum, attracted a flattering audience last April, the German Department announced its intention to sponsor a regular series of such productions, henceforth to be offered in the more commodious amphitheater of the Geographical Institute. Thus far the plan, admirable as it is, has borne no palpable fruit...
Meanwhile Chancellor Dollfuss had declared martial law, "yielding to popular demands for the restoration of the death penalty," as his Government neatly put it, adding: "The peaceful population of Austria naturally has nothing to fear. . . . On the other hand this measure is to be understood as meaning that henceforth perpetrators and abettors and participants in disgraceful and bloody crimes and violent acts menacing the public safety will not be able to reckon with the light penalty hitherto specified in our laws...
...American Telephone & Telegraph has its figures on installations. General Motors has its sales to consumers. And until last week U. S. Steel had its monthly figures on unfilled orders. Then Steel's Chairman Myron Charles Taylor announced that the NRA had put an end to this historic index. Henceforth Steel will publish figures only on tonnage actually shipped...
...precedent of long standing was rudely overturned when Mr. Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor-elect of New York, announced to newspaper men that henceforth local banquets must carry on without the mayoral presence. There will, it seems, be no more of the screaming police escorts, secret exits, and hasty fitting from table to table which has characterized other administrations. The mayor has work...