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...Roared approval as Lord Privy Seal Mr. Stanley Baldwin took over as Acting Premier with a suave but unmistakable Tory intimation that, with Pacifist MacDonald out of the way, His Majesty's Government will at once proceed to build nearly 1,000 additional fighting planes...
That His Majesty should have been able to proceed in seemly state over the whole length of his snakelike route of 2,000 miles from Teheran to Ankara (see map) was itself a gigantic achievement of the two Dictators. Before they ousted the do-nothing hereditary royal dynasties of Turkey and Persia such a journey could only be made by meandering caravan and in utmost peril of attack by bandits. Most savage of all were the Kurdish cutthroats who for generations had defied both Persian and Turkish soldiers, raiding (first into one country, then into the other along their common...
...proposal that it turn itself into the Permanent Conference for Promotion of Peace but will submit this idea to all governments; 2) the main Disarmament Conference will adjourn this week until autumn but several committees will bask along in Geneva all summer; 3) the work of the Conference shall proceed "without prejudice to private conversations on which the governments will desire to enter in order to facilitate the attainment of final success by the return of Germany to the Conference...
...abroad in native homes, attending government conferences. Each year the School has five "confer-ences on public affairs" of its own. From outside come topnotch authorities to inform and argue. Then students pretend they are a Senate committee, a New York City charter commission, a League of Nations assembly, proceed to thrash out the question at hand with all due form & ceremony. At this year's final conference last month the School was the U. S. House Ways & Means Committee, .considering the reciprocal tariff bill (see p. 13). Preparatory experts were chairman and ex-chairman...
...Naval R. O. T. C. will embark from the Boston Navy Yard on the destroyer Manley June 20 for the annual training cruise in company with the ships of the Yale and Georgia Tech units. The unit will stop over at New London for the boat race June 22, proceed to southern waters for ship handling and target practice exercise and return to Boston July...