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...Inhabitants who are victims of the aforesaid policy will withhold the reception otherwise due to Lord Balfour. On the day of his arrival, meetings will be held in places of worship for protest and prayer. Representatives of Arab bodies, recognized or unrecognized, and other national bodies and notables, will refrain from meeting him publicly or privately. The authorities responsible for the Holy Places and national institutions will withhold leave of access to them. Arabic papers will appear with black borders and brief comments in English on the Balfour Declaration. Political authorities in Arab countries will associate themselves with the said...
From the Dark Continent comes a gleam of light, along the Capetown cable. The Union of South Africa has requested the King of England to refrain in the future from conferring orders and distinctions upon its citizens...
Hell's Bells chimed with a doubtful harmony. Their refrain told of two miners from the West who came home again to Connecticut. In the clutch of one was a $500 bill. Promptly the old folks mistook them for millionaires. These same designing elders proceeded to prove that the rich relative was insane and should therefore be pitched into a sanitarium, stripped of his riches...
...American naval maneuvers are not our business and I desire to refrain from commenting on this question. The maneuvers do not violate the spirit of the Four-Power Treaty...
...before fully resolving to bring this notice to the readers of the Magenta. I know well how potent are the suggestions made in these columns; how eagerly they are read, and how promptly they are acted upon. But, fully conscious of the responsibility I take upon myself, I cannot refrain longer from pointing out this one-sidedness in the objects of our associations, and suggesting some remedies...