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Foreign nations have taken no little interest in the decision of the Supreme Court which forbids their vessels to carry liquor as part of their ship stores, or even under seal, when in United States waters. There was a storm of protest in the English and French press...
Possibly the editors of Current History will receive letters of protest this week and next...
...York City Committee of the National Woman's Party passed a resolution of protest against unfair sex discrimination by the police in a recent raid on a dance hall in Manhattan. After the raid, the women dancers were arrested and imprisoned overnight " to protect their morals." The men were "shooed off " without having their names and addresses printed by the newspapers, as were the women's. Said Mrs. Marcus M. Marks: " The story was printed all over the country and then no more done about it. We don't understand how the papers could...
Edith of Nantes, a risque French play, was closed in Paris, following an energetic protest by indignant spectators. This is the first play to be suppressed in the Government's clean-up of Paris playhouses...
There is a courageous paper in the South. It is the Enquirer-Sun of Columbus, Ga. In spite of K. K. K.'s to right and left, in front and rear, it says: " The whole Kukluxklan Kamelia Komedy is so foolish that one no longer wishes to protest against it because it is anti-Negro, anti-Jew and anti-Catholic, but rather because it makes the people of all the South appear idiotic when they continue to accept seriously Klonvocations and Klonciliums, and tolerate the fantastic ravings of men who are fattening on the money of deluded simpletons...