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...hours fled breathlessly because a certain bland clause in the Free State Constitution provides that every Irish M. P. must take an oath of allegiance to King George-which has caused Eamonn de Valera and 38 other elected Republican deputies to absent themselves from the Dáil in protest. Last week they were expected to appear at any moment. Rumor had it that they would force their way into the Dáil without taking the oath. News-mongers chuckled at the thought of filing lurid three-column despatches...
...Freyre, the Peruvian representative on the Commission, naturally supported General Pershing. Señor Edwards, the Chilean Commissioner, who withdrew a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 7) as a protest against the Commission's "needless delay" in holding the plebiscite, was again on hand and demanded that Feb. 1 be set as the voting date. He again contended that Chile had no intention of coercing the voters and said that the Commission's instructions had been complied with to the letter...
Store windows had big signs up: "Bankers, give Florida due credit. Check it up and pledge to indorse it without protest . . . ." A real estate spellbinder went about urging bankers "to give Florida help with bonds, stocks, debentures, and other collateral." Almost none of the financiers thus exhorted were able to discover exactly what was meant...
...action of Mr. Foxen Cooper, "British Technical Adviser of Cine- matography," in permitting only a single cinema firm to photograph the signing of the Locarno Treaties, precipitated a furor of protest from rival firms. Mr. Cooper imperturbably remarked: "I am sure that this restriction was wisely adopted...
...Locarno Treaties in the Reichstag (TIME, Nov. 30), the understanding being that the Socialists and others who came to the Treaties' rescue would be rewarded with posts in the next Cabinet. Of course the fact that the three Nationalists in the Cabinet had previously resigned as a protest against the Treaties (TIME, Nov. 2) had also made it desirable that the "rump-Cabinet" thus created should step down when the Treaties were safe...