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...days later London learned that the Cabinet, before dispersing, had left ab solute discretion to the Imperial Defense Committee, nicely deployed between its pacifist chairman Scot MacDonald and a bristling array of Admiralty, Air Force and Army chiefs. In papers close to the Admiralty a, great uproar was made about Britain's Mediterranean base at Malta being now so weak as to be vulnerable to Italian air attack. Amid that utter fog which British statesmen so often find useful in masking their intentions, the Government created a sensation by announcing that several units of the Mediterranean fleet which went...
...Labor, with its fine marble headquarters overlooking a tiny public park adorned with a statue of the late great Samuel Gompers. But the records show that the A. F. of L. has a poor score for political trading. During the War Gompers traded the credo of the Socialist-Pacifist Federation for union wages in Government shipyards and munitions plants, a swap which helped demoralize the Federation in the five following peace years, during which its membership was reduced by one-third. Hook-line-&-sinker the Federation went for the New Deal's NRA, which washed out disastrously under...
Died. Jane Addams, 74, pioneer social worker, lecturer, pacifist, reformer, founder 46 years ago of Chicago's Hull House, first and most famed settlement house in the U.S.; after an operation for abdominal adhesions and cancer; in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt called her "America's most useful citizen." For her peace activities, which included organizing an international congress of women during the War and resisting U.S. entry into the War, she was awarded one-half the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, with Nicholas Murray Butler...
...cheer the writer (possibly subsidized) who disparages Woodrow Wilson, Walter Hines Page, Lord Bryce etc. etc. and who applauds the notorious People's Council, the Pacifist resolutions of 1917, Gum Shoe Bill Stone and all that ilk? This, your favorite writer for the week, also takes a sweep at Teddy Roosevelt, whom he calls treasonable! . . . Let all the patriots of any decade be dressed as punks and fools, let Judas Iscariot himself be painted with a halo. Let up be down and down up, and you have a Millis book and five columns...
Appearing as the first star witness, Pacifist Viscount Cecil of Chelwood at once aroused Dame Crowdy's interest by proposing that the League of Nations' system of opium control "not only by export licenses but by import certificates" be applied to armaments...