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...glorification of the Negro now an accepted policy of your magazine? I had hoped that after the protest of one Southerner you might show some consideration for the sensibilities of our people by the discontinuance of your practice of referring to the colored man as "mister." I was deeply grieved, therefore, to find two new instances of this kind in your Sept. 7 issue. I refer to your entitlement of Robert Taylor on Page 6 and Walter Cohen on Page...
This practice, it seems to me, is wholly unnecessary, from your standpoint, and from that of the Southerner, assumes almost nauseating proportions. Furthermore, its protraction, in the face of previous protest, impresses me as a flagrant affront to the feelings of our people. If it be, as it appears, your desire to alienate and force from your ranks such readers of TIME as hail from the South, you are pursuing a most effectual course...
...League's adjudication of the Mosul border, and demanding that a plebiscite be taken, and the whole matter reopened. 2) China: Chao Hsin-Chu, Chinese Charge d'Affaires at London, begged the League to deliver his country from "the yoke of extra-territoriality." 3) Autria: a protest was entered against the Austrian budget, as set by the League, it being claimed that State employes would be paid less than starvation wages under the present arrangement...
...course this action is contrary to the terms of British treaties with China. It is very serious for Hongkong which is reported to be losing $1,000,000 a day by the boycott. The British and Japanese can protest to Peking, and Peking can give orders to Canton -and Canton will go on doing as it pleases. The anti-foreign sentiment in Canton, led by Soviet agitators, gives the British and Japanese the choice of direct action (i.e. using force) or nothing...
...expenses. General Lord made answer in effect: "You can expect not more than $15,300,000 all told." Admiral Palmer took Director Lord's ultimatum philosophically. The Board itself, more volatile, was expected to be less resigned, more irate at the reduction. The form that the first protest of the Board took was a statement by Chairman O'Connor that, if General Lord's allowance were not increased, the Leviathan would probably have to retire from service...