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...Spirit of Locarno." Nine years ago at Locarno, Switzerland, gold pens squiggled in the hands of Benito Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western frontier of Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time...
...Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic States to sign an Eastern Locarno pact of "mutual assistance" pledging each other to maintain their present frontiers...
...year, 14 behind his record year (1927). Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, who was expected to be leading homerun hitter as Ruth declined, was four behind Johnson. Last week in an exhibition game at Norfolk, Va. a pitched ball hit Gehrig on the head, knocked him unconscious. Anxious to maintain his record of playing in more consecutive games than any other player in major-league baseball history, Gehrig next day performed ably in his 1,415th...
With practically the complete returns from the CRIMSON-Literary Digest Poll, support of the Roosevelt policies continues to maintain nearly a two to one majority. The computations this morning give 2,103 votes for and 1,130 votes against. The same results have been revealed in the 13 other colleges which have assisted in the poll, nine of whom like Harvard gave their full support to Hoover in the 1932 presidential campaign...
While Harvard along with the University of New York and Virginia continues to maintain the ratio of the earlier returns, Yale, Cornell, Brown, and Wisconsin report heavy gains for the Democratic administration this week. Wisconsin has the largest proportion of "Yes" votes and Illinois, reported for the first time, has the smallest, 57.46 per cent, but even that is larger than the entire state ratio. The Harvard ratio is 65.05 per cent in favor of the policies and 34.95 per cent dissenting...