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...friend of both parties, able to open the eventual negotiations for peace, and restraining oppressive demands of either side. His conclusion that the U. S. had best join up with the Allies was based on two arguments: 1) if the Allies won, the U. S. could insist on a settlement generous to Germany; 2) if the Allies crumbled despite the U. S. joining up, then Germany would still have to reckon with the U. S. when talk came of peace terms, would therefore make a more generous settlement - and would be less free to turn on the U. S. after...
...were as big as little Scot MacDonald's heart he would put every blackamoor in the islands on Easy Street. But all he could expect to get from a war-pressed Parliament was $4,000,000 a year, to be spent for West Indian education, slum clearance, land settlement, labor departments. On all British colonies, Mr. MacDonald proposed to spend $20,000,000 a year for ten years. In addition to their specific allotment, the West Indies may share in this appropriation too. But nothing was said about one plan that had been considered by the Commission: a federation...
Into this sea of misery there recently fell a drop of help from an odd quarter. At Ciudad Trujillo, the Dominican Republic's capital, the Dominican Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture and international refugee workers signed a contract providing for the immediate settlement of 500 refugee families in the Republic and the ultimate admission of 100,000 persons. Moreover, the Dominican Government agreed that the exiles...
Only one other league meet is listed for settlement this week-Dartmouth at Columbia, also on Saturday--but members of the circuit will compete in several non-league meets as well. Among the best of these will be the Yale-Wayne duel and the Army-Navy engagement, both on Saturday...
Although a complete list of speakers is not as yet available, a large number have committed themselves to lead the discussions. Those who will speak are: Charles S. Ascher, of the Social Science Research Council; Arthur S. Fleming, United States Civil Service commissioner; Helen Hall, of the Henry Street Settlement; William Hodson, New York City Public Welfare Commissioner; Lawrence P. Orton, of the New York Planning Board; and Coleman Woodbury, Secretary of the National Association of Housing Officials...