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...perfectly true, as Mr. Borchard suggested, that the usual questions which the World Court may handle are not likely to be those which may lead to war. In the main, they will be legal questions about which nations will disagree, which may even contribute to friction, but which would seldom be inclined to lead to war. The larger political differences which occupy headlines, which give us the scares, which feed the fire-eaters, will not often be susceptible of statement in terms of a legal question. So let us agree at once, that the World Court is not a certain...
...Seldom has Edward of Wales been placed in a more difficult position. Although indisputably Alexandra's favorite grandson, he was expected, while she lay dying, to dine as the Lord Mayor's guest at a great Guildhall banquet, to which over 800 of his father's most distinguished subjects had been invited for the sole purpose of hearing the Prince discourse officially upon his Empire Tour (TIME, Oct. 23 et ante...
...greasy pocket of fate. He wins a lovely lady and confounds the competitors for his cargo, and there is much sea salt in evidence everywhere. One scene, with the schooner swaying in the swells, is amazingly accurate. Of the accuracy of the rest one may have doubts. Romance is seldom accurate. That is why people like to see it on the stage. Life turns the edges of romance too swiftly. Twelve Miles Out will probably serve until the holidays...
...impertinence and effrontery of this document must have struck all of its readers. As a blanket indictment of the regular body of University tutors, it has seldom been excelled. As a reflection on the general level of intelligence of the Senior Class it was no less descending...
Popular conceptions are so seldom right that the probabilities are all in Mr. Faulkner's favor. Yet people will probably cling to their picturesque illusions all the more because they have small foundation. Where could one find a horrible example of religious bigotry to cartoon if New England refuses the role? what becomes of the ancestry societies if one's ancestor was a bond servant on a rundown tobacco farm? The public will see to it that these iconoclastic assertions are still-born; it would never do to see the United States join hands with Australia as a place whose...