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Compromise. Last week's A. P. poll, showing that at least 35 Senators would uphold a veto of a law for full payment of the bonus certificates, will mean little by the time a bonus bill comes to passage. For the Senators committed themselves against "outright and immediate payment." In short, they are opposed to yielding to the Legion's full demand. In most Congressmen's minds the issue had last week boiled down to a question of how much cash to give. Messrs. Taylor & Belgrano have not yet set their seal to any definite bill...
When the Saar plebiscite commission asked France and Germany to desist from broadcasting Saar propaganda for 24 hours before the poll last week, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin complied. Realmleader Adolf Hitler ordered every German station hooked into an unceasing day & night Saar broadcast, the usual time signals between programs being replaced by the first few bars of the plebiscite song, "GERMAN IS THE SAAR...
...which 2,249 were invalid); to set up 860 voting booths in 83 Saar voting areas; to furnish free rail and bus transport within the Saar from voters' homes to the place where they resided when the Treaty of Versailles was signed; and in salaries to 860 neutral poll watchers who were paid about $65 each for their services on the voting day, cheap at the price since they included 360 stolid, super-meticulous Dutch burgomasters. The troops supplied by Britain, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden charged for their services only a sum representing the difference between what...
...arrival of the first ballots in the Literary Digest peace poll again arouses a question concerning the value of such expressions of undergraduate opinion. The sponsors of the poll, maintain that it will crystallize the attitude of students against war, thus, presumably, serving to maintain peace. The discussion that inevitably accompanies the completion of the ballots is intended to stimulate thought on the subject...
...commenting on the ballot Charles L. Whipple '35, spokesman of the National Student League, called the poll "silly since it implies an issue of pacifism impossible in a government pledged to capitalism." Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35, president of the Debating Council, was hopeful that the poll would actively arouse undergraduate opinion and discussion on pacifism, a subject hitherto regarded almost in the light of fanaticism...