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...official protest of the U. S. government against the now tariff law (TIME, Sept. 19), the French government countered skillfully. It declined to entertain the U. S. proposal for a treaty of amity and commerce modeled on the one recently concluded with Germany (TIME, Aug. 29). In other words France refused to give the U. S. most-favored nation treatment (rates equal to the lowest accorded to any other nation) because the U. S. makes no similar concession to any country...
...Protest. At once there was a mighty shout and a stampede for the U. S. Embassy. Some businessmen laid the French action to a desire to secure the upper hand at the negotiations for a treaty of commerce and amity with the U. S., due to take place in Paris on or about Oct. 15.? Others saw in it a move to force the hand of the U. S. in regard to paring down the French debt. An official protest was lodged by the U. S. through the Paris Embassy. The French promised to consider the matter. Busy businessmen...
...that this was made necessary by the threats from Communists. The Reds, on the contrary, decided to boycott the parade, to protest loudly, peacefully, far away from the "rich quarter" of the city where the "insolent cortege" is to be held. "Apres tout, mon vieux," quoth one old Frenchman to another. "Il ne sont que des gosses?n' importe quoi pourra se passer...
...British press received with little comment and no protest the dogmatic assertion of Sir Arthur Keith, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in session last fortnight at Leeds, that "Darwin was right," that men and apes had a common ancestor (TIME, Sept...
...Bishop of Ripon, however, preaching in Leeds the following Sunday, made a protest far broader than simple anti-Darwinism. Said he of Science in general: "With all this new mastery over nature, man has not seemed really to be advancing his own cause. . . . Dare I even suggest, at the risk of being lynched by some of my hearers, that the sum of human happiness, outside of scientific circles, would not necessarily be reduced if, for say ten years, every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy displayed in them transferred to recovering the lost...