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...more time to consider the protocol proposals, owing to the fact that her Dominions had declined to attend an Imperial Conference on the subject. This, in turn, was regarded as unfavorable and a project was in hand to drop the security proposals out of the drafted protocol and refer the whole question to this year's Assembly. There was probably no truth in the report that Britain would offer France a separate security pact...
...Government was thought likely, however, to refer the matter to the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague, and, if Turkey opposed the Court's verdict, to withdraw the Greek diplomatic representative at Angora, which might be interpreted as a declaration...
After two more days of storm and stress it was agreed to refer the U. S. plan to a committee of eight (suggested by Finland's representative), composed of the U. S., Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, Finland, Italy, Persia, Poland...
...bout was in the same hall where Senator Jim Reed-surely you know his state-frequently has exhorted the populace. You say the bout was "in full view of 15,000 Kansans," and refer to the "thunderous applause of the Kansans." Remarkable, indeed. that all the spectators should have come from the other side of the line...
Another of the speakers had occasion to refer to the Netherlands. She was Mrs. Helena Normanton (Mrs. Gavin Clark), first married woman to be admitted to the English Bar under her own name, a woman who, in addition to prefixing "Mrs." to her maiden name, is "plump and very pretty, with a genuine blond complexion that would make even a show girl respect nature." Said she to her fellow diners...