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...assertion is put forward in the Socialist press that Secretary of State Hughes uses, or rather misuses, his office for propaganda purposes. Two specific charges are made...
...erroneously reported by the press that the 1,000,000 mark note will be the largest paper unit in the world, outside Russian rubles. For many months Austria has circulated 5,000,000 crown notes...
...scandal," concerning the fake antique Gothic statuary in American museums, is investigated by Rene Gimpel, noted French connoisseur. Gimpel says the scandal is faked but the statuary is genuine. Once more the press is hoist by its own sensation...
England seems eager to negotiate on the basis of the latest German note which proposes an impartial commission to fix reparations and guarantees; Italy and Belgium are not satisfied with the present situation. But France, if we may believe the French press, raises three objections: first, that passive resistance must cease, second, that there shall be no examination by outsiders of Germany's capacity to pay, and finally, that any abatement of France's claim on Germany must be met by a corresponding abatement of the English and American claims on France. If Mr. Baldwin can unravel this tangle...
Ever since civilization began, science has thus kept pace with the evil effects arising from its development. The perfection of eye-glasses followed upon the introduction of the printing press, surgery was stimulated by the invention of gunpowder and artillery, and gas-masks appeared soon after the introduction of gas as a weapon of offence. But medical science has more than kept pace with disease. At a dinner of prominent physicians it was possible to state that the man of today can reasonably expect ten years more of life than the man of a century and a half...