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...Free City of Danzig, with its territory, forms a corridor between Germany and its province of East Prussia and thus allows the Poles an economic outlet to the Baltic Sea. To Germans, the status quo is intolerable; to Poles, it is indispensable; thus, the former, by insidious propaganda, seek to restore the status quo ante; while the latter, by the same methods, seek to improve the status quo in favor of Poland...
...Fraternities status quo plus the open house:--No more fraternities should be introduced into Yale College until normal rather than artificial equilibrium be established among general pleasure and enjoyment be had from the large amount of money which must be spent a un fraternity buildings in the immediate future. The spirit of existing interfraternity agreement must remain unimpaired. Yale College would suffer immeasurably from the magnified interfraternity competition and the consequent exaggeration of fraternity importance...
After avowing that times, styles, and "lines" have changed, "A Professor" discards the fallacy of the status quo, and tries to see new conditions through new eyes. The indeconcies of the modern "young person" are indecent only to the middle aged. Youth has new standards of conduct and decency; he believes that "sin" has been stricken from the new code. "Goodness" and "Sin" have become phrases to the new generation, to which all life is a challenge to experience and expansion...
...Attention was called to the fact that the new arrangement for the Egyptian Army in the Sudan was a violation of the status quo which the British Government had formerly supported and was also a violation of Egypt's Constitution, under which King Fuad alone can dismiss officers...
...loss of two-thirds of their seats in Commons, with the adoption into Baldwin's new cabinet of a former Liberal, Winston Churchill, and Liberal-Coalitionists, are symptoms of the disappearance of the half-way party. In fundamental agreement with the Tory policy which intends to preserve the status quo in politics and economics with just the necessary minimum of flaunting promises to catch the worker's vote, the Liberals had really lost all excuse for insisting upon a separate existence as soon as the protective tariff was defeated in the election of last January...