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...Washington Conference bound the U. S., Britain, France (not ratified), Italy and Japan to refrain from using poisonous gases against one another. (Prof. Haldane remarks: "Of course they will use such humane weapons as bayonets, shells and incendiary bombs.") The Washington Conference did nothing to deter the nations from buying gases in preparation for war. That is left to the League Conference at Geneva...
Throughout was the covert threat that if Mrs. Moore's replies were unsatisfactory, Mrs. Potts would advise the clients of the National Patriotic Council to refrain from attending Mrs. Moore's meetings...
...Fayettesville, N. C, The Fayettesville Observer announced that, for 15 days, it would refrain from publishing any crime news whatsoever in its columns. The readers were told that their opinions would be consulted, would determine whether or not the policy should become permanent...
...Margaret Sanger, President of the League in the U. S., declared that her country was going ''on a biological joyride"; that the Government might better expend the millions now paid out for charities in bonuses to morons, criminals and imbeciles who refrain from bearing offspring...
From chaffee, babbitt thoughts refrain...