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...University and General Tasker Howard Bliss. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League, stated that the report would soon be received by President Benes (Premier of Czecho-Slovakia) of the League Council and that he thought it was a serious and probably extremely useful study of the armament problem...
...nourishes no dangerous ambition. It hopes only to obtain payment of the reparations which have been solemnly promised and the guarantees of security which will not be illusory. In the Experts' Report, to which, as proof of our conciliatory spirit we have hastened to give our adherence, the problem of reparations seems to be evolving toward a solution. For that, however, it is essential that the debtor give as large proof of good will and good faith as the creditor and that this proof be given by facts and not by simple promises without assurance for the morrow...
...complexity and seriousness of the financial problem which the Government must face is perhaps realized when it is stated that it costs the French people 13,000,000,000 francs (more than half the French budgetary appropriations) to carry the internal debt. The external debt is not as yet being cared for; but were the Government to attempt to meet its interest obligations on foreign debts, the total charges on internal and external indebtedness would swamp the 23,000,000,000 franc budget for this year...
...style and some inexcusably bromidic Latin and French quotations, he himself has managed to jot down a not-too-implausible tale, and some fairly deft characterizations. In between his other activities, he has evidently given some thought to Harvard's race question also, for echoes of that problem appear throughout the story...
...London the Royal Academy made an important announcement. It has appointed a distinguished committee of artists and scientific experts "to investigate the very perplexing problem of cleaning old masterpieces." For a long time restoring and cleaning has been a matter of the greatest secrecy and not infrequently a matter of disaster. The Academy hopes to make it an international study, thus protecting museums and private owners of the treasures of the past. Whereas the Louvre has been overcautious, for years allowing varnish to darken her priceless paintings, Germany and Holland have gone to the other extreme, scrubbing and revarnishing...