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Germany was pledged to refrain from arming if other nations disarmed radically. Hitler welcomed the Mussolini-MacDonald peace projects. To the general surprise he announced that Germany "looks forward to friendly relations with Soviet Russia...
Referring to your article Historic Saturday in TIME, February 13, in which reference is made to President R. S. Hecht of Hibernia Bank & Trust Company, I cannot refrain from lodging my protest regarding at least one unfair reflection. . . . That John J. Gannon, whom he (Mr. Hecht) displaced, spent the brief balance of his life cursing Rudolf Hecht in all public places as a double crosser. No more thoroughly incorrect insinuation could you possibly have published, for the facts are that when, 15 years ago, the board of directors decided to retire Mr. Gannon without pay and informed Mr. Hecht that...
Next day the Council of the League of Nations sent to Lima the sort of cablegram it itches to send to Tokyo but dares not. Peru was commanded by the Council "to refrain from any intervention by force on Colombian territory and . . . not hinder the Colombian authorities from the exercise of full sovereignty and jurisdiction in territory recognized by treaty to belong to Colombia...
...session, to initiate legislation for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment was a disappointment to many. But last week the House got at Prohibition in a different way. It cut $800,000 from the funds available for its enforcement, and at the same time provided that Prohibition agents should refrain from the practices of wire-tapping, buying evidence, and spying...
...Moreau is engaged in trying, with partial success, to create humans. His more satisfactory experiments he uses as house servants; the others he allows to roam the forests of his island, so long as they refrain from eating one another or gnawing the bark off trees. When a young castaway (Richard Arlen) turns up at the island, Dr. Moreau regards him as a suitable mate for his artfully constructed "panther woman." The romance progresses nicely until the castaway notices that the panther woman's finger nails are claws. Finally the castaway's fiancée comes to rescue...