Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some London wag nailed a horseshoe last week to the door of the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain. Hitherto deadlocked, the Committee was soon lucky in reaching virtual unanimity on the British scheme to secure "substantial" withdrawal of volunteers fighting on both sides in Spain, then accord full belligerent rights to both Leftists and Rightists (TIME, Nov. 1). "There is not a single member of the committee who does not accept [The Scheme], excepting Russia," announced Viscount Cranborne, an acting chairman. "Yet I think it may be that even Russia tomorrow may see her way to accept...
...carry it out after it has started. With this in mind, it would be well for the Faculty Committee in charge of the project to think about ways of continuing and developing even further student interest in their plan. Perhaps the best way to gain adherents for the scheme would be the formation of an undergraduate committee to parallel the Faculty Committee. This would mean that undergraduates would help to bear the burden of recruiting men to do the reading and take the examinations, a task that is ever so much easier for a student, a fellow participant...
...been for the present faulty scheme of inter-House cooperation, the misunderstanding need not have arisen, and its unfortunate results could have been avoided. We feel that immediate steps should be taken to establish a committee, with wider powers, which could bring about efficient cooperation between the Houses...
Tense with anxiety, the 209,000,000 people of the Mohammedan world, only 30,000,000 of whom are citizens of states ruled by Mohammedans, followed day by day last week the violent efforts of Palestine's Christian rulers to break Arab resistance to their scheme of carving up the Holy Land into three parts: a Jewish state and an Arab state divided by a British corridor (TIME, July...