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...country rapidly disintegrating before his eyes. With the Heimwehr reported to be riddled with Nazi sympathizers, the Socialist party alienated, and the peasants supporting him only on account of the Church, Dollfuss apparently feels that his domestic position has become so unstable that if he is to maintain his government against the ever increasing violence of Nazi propaganda, he must have more than the moral backing of the other powers. According to dispatches from Vienna he has decided to appeal to the League tomorrow and ask that Article XI, paragraph 2, be invoked against Germany. That the League itself would...
...importance for the London Economic Conference: monetary stabilization and the return of all currencies to a common standard which the United States cannot conceive of as other than gold. I replied that Italy had no need to stabilize, as she had already stabilized on Dec. 21, 1927, and had maintained and intended to maintain that stabilization unaltered; and that Italy had no need to return to a gold parity because she had placed her currency on a gold basis. I added that whatever other countries might do, Italy would not deviate from the policies laid down by the Duce...
Never inclined to bother much about Siam's frequent revolutions which thus far have never been against his Crown, easy-going King Prajadhipok bade his countrymen farewell: "May my people maintain peace and unity during my absence, which is necessitated by reasons of health...
President Blumenthal will have under his control an institution which last year spent $1,450,000 to maintain itself, owns 2,182 oil paintings including one Hubert van Eyck diptych, 25 Rembrandts, two Velasquez', four El Grecos, two Giovanni Bellinis, six Cézannes, seven Whistlers and the originals of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "The Horse Fair...
...most touching tributes to the high ideals which American women maintain was demonstrated yesterday in New York at a meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Under the leadership of their world president, Mrs. Ella A. Boole, who looked charming in a subdued black silk dress and a black hat with the white badge of the organization affixed to her shoulder, these courageous women planned a new crusade to root out the many evils which have flocked in with the Democrats and the Depression. Chief among these, of course, is the return of the nefarious liquor traffic...