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...Italian count, a Mexican major and a suave Spanish diplomat named Don Julio Alvarez del Vayo stopped the war between Bolivia and Paraguay (see p. 15) but nearly all their kudos was stolen last week by Montevideo's well-publicized Seventh Pan-American Conference (TIME, Dec. 11 et seg...
When the Oxford Union got into the newspapers by voting against bearing arms in war (TIME, Feb. 27 et seg.), it was to be expected that some U. S. universities would follow suit. Last week the Brown University Herald front-paged an editorial condemning war. announced a campaign to get pledges against bearing arms except in case of invasion of the U. S. The Columbia Spectator began a poll on pacifism. Northwestern University went even further in imitating Oxford. The local chapter of the League of Industrial Democracy held a debate, presented a resolution which was adopted...
...month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...
There was but one "Indian Round Table Conference" and it was in London (TIME, Nov. 24 to Jan. 26). The recent parleys between Mr. Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin in India (TIME, March 2 et seg.) were not a "round table conference." Therefore some interpretation was necessary in London last week when the Conservative Party Committee on India an- nounced that Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin had decided as follows...
...disclosed the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment as a husky adult organization, amply financed and operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary Committee held hearings, the first in a decade, on the repeal of the 18th Amendment (TIME, Feb. 10 et seg.). With a fresh Wet Movement obviously on, the Literary Digest conducted a nation-wide poll on Prohibition which showed that out of 4,806,464 persons balloting, only 1,464,098 favored existing Dry conditions whereas 3,342,366 wanted some sort of Change...