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...success in his ambitious scheme to draw Rumania out of the orbit of her time-honored ally, France. An Italian-Albanian-Bulgarian-Rumanian rapprochement spanning the lower Balkans and linked up with Hungary, thus encircling Italy's enemy Jugoslavia, has long been a favorite pipe dream for correspondents. Lest it crystallize into a rumor, M. Titulescu prepared, last week, to visit Paris for a friendly chat with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...
Immediately, "this body," the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, which, with official delegations from 28 denominations, was holding annual session in Cleveland, became an uproar. Said the Rev. Dr. George Summey of New Orleans: "Now let's be careful lest we touch matters of a political nature and commit ourselves to something that will soil the garments of the Bride of Christ. . . . There is a wide difference of opinion. Now, let's go carefully." Colored Baptist Dr. W. H. Jernagin pleaded in its favor on the grounds that it would give the Negro church confidence...
...Smith refused to accept his rejection, regarding himself as an agent of his State, duty-bound to fight out an issue between Illinois and the U. S. Senate. Governor Small of Illinois refused to appoint a successor to Smith, lest the "vacancy" be thus admitted by Illinois to be legal. The Illinois decision last week was to re-elect Smith, if possible, next autumn rather than go to court against the Senate at once...
...Headlines screamed throughout the globe, when the 21 Delegations voted 15 to 6 in preliminary conclave that not only plenary sessions of the Conference but also committee meetings should be public. Because the U. S. had been expected to demand secret sessions-lest Latins flay U. S. intervention in Nicaragua-universal astonishment reigned, last week, as Charles Evans Hughes calmly cast the U. S. vote for public sessions. Amazing! Now there would be fireworks...
...Tenno Hirohito proceeded amid pomp with his entire Court, last week, to the so-called "Palace of Awe," a shrine especially favored by the spirits of all his imperial ancestors. There he announced to them that on Nov. 10, 1928, he proposes to be officially crowned at Kyoto. Lest any of the august ancestors should not have heard him at the "Palace of Awe," Tenno Hirohito thereupon despatched messengers in quaint, medieval costumes to all the imperial tombs. Soon the revered occupants had no excuse whatever for ignorance of the intentions of their reigning descendant...