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Developments. M. Paul-Boncour (France) and Viscount Cecil (Britain) decorously renewed the argumentative contest over "potential" and "actual" disarmament which they voiced publicly at the December League Council session (TIME, Dec. 21). It was deemed prudent to thrash these differences out in committees, two of which were accordingly formed. Late despatches reported that the Japanese representative, Baron Matsudaira, was discussing privately with Mr. Gibson the possibility of another Washington naval conference...
...Italian debts to the U. S. and Britain have been heavily scaled down and funded (Italy paying the U. S. a doubtful 25c on the $1), the Italian government found itself last week in a position to undertake enterprises and expenditures which otherwise would not have been financially prudent. Examples...
...Prudent medical students, with June term-end in sight, have already placed their applications for internships with hospitals throughout the U.S. Some hospital staffs have gained high esteem in the medical schools not only for their knowledge but, more important, their tutoring ability. Such hospitals are already flooded with applications, while most others, generally of poor teaching facilities and low prestige, will later have to advertise and wheedle for interns...
...annually from France; we have a firm undertaking from Italy of ?4,000,000 annually, and what may be collected from the minor powers is estimated at, say, ?2,000,000. If Germany pays three-quarters of the reparations under the Dawes scheme, which seems a perfectly prudent and reasonable basis on which to found ourselves, that will...
...February after the armistice, prudent General Knisgern started canceling his war contracts; told Swift & Co., one of his main supply agents, to cease preparing Army bacon. But they had about five million pounds of pig bellies in smoke, could not easily dispose of them to the civilian trade. The selling price would have been considerably below the Government contract rate, at which Swift & Co. had keyed their packing operations. The General realized Swift's fairness and willing co-operation throughout the War stress, yet had to refer money adjustment to a Court of Claims; told the company to sell...