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...arbitrators (Abyssinia's two and two appointed by Italy) must reach a decision by July 25, failing which a fifth arbitrator will be chosen by the League Council. All five will be given until Aug. 25 to reach agreement, after which the League Council will take things over, scratch its head, ponder...
...takes care of the Hitler crochet which made Der Führer say he would sign up for non-aggression "with any country except Lithuania" month and a half ago. In the new treaty all European countries east of Germany except Lithuania are made eligible and urged to sign. Scratch their heads as they would this week, most neutral European statesmen could see no reason why Germany should not be anxious to sign, unless she in fact is harboring aggressive designs...
...pepping up the air breathed by the Dictator in his suburban Belvidere Palace. Last week the grim old Marshal threw a cordon of his fanatically loyal troops around the President's palace, shooed into it the Cabinet, Diet and Senate and provided Professor Moscicki with pen & ink. Scratch, scratch the puppet President signed a new Constitution (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933) which sweeps into the dustbin every vestige of Polish democratic institutions and regularizes in legal form the governing of Poland by what the new Constitution calls her "Elite"-actually her Army officers and ex-soldiers. Since the old Marshal...
...beak the spell. Where the nose has lost much is in its powers of prophecy. Time was, when our nose itched, we knew we were to hear good news be kissed by a fool, or take a long journey. Now we just call it an itch and scratch. That's civilization...
Suppose the U. S. could scrap its codes, constitutions, institutions, traditions, start anew from scratch. Many a Utopian has meditated that heady impossibility. More realistic, Chairman William Yandell Elliott of Harvard's Department of Government last week presented a series of proposals for revamping the present Constitutional structure to accord with modern political and economic realities.* If adopted, his proposals might produce a scene like the following...