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...United Kingdom and French Governments recommend that His Majesty the Emperor accept and will use their influence to secure the approval by the League of Nations of the formation in Southern Ethiopia of a zone of economic expansion and settlement reserved to Italy...
Benito Mussolini read: "The United Kingdom and French Governments will use their influence at Addis Ababa and Geneva to the end that the formation in Southern Ethiopia of a zone of economic expansion and settlement reserved to Italy should be accepted by His Majesty the Emperor and approved by the League of Nations...
...bishopric of Manchester. That northern see, with its industrial pinch, led Dr. Temple politically to the Left of his colleague of Canterbury, into the Labor Party and on to the presidency of its Workers Educational Association. With the enthusiasm of a practical social reformer who enjoys playing pool with settlement house moppets, His Grace of York is a leading spirit in "Copec" (Christian Conference on Politics & Economics) but he has now left the Labor Party, feeling himself more useful out of active politics...
...second-decade student, provided there be no economic or competitive anxieties, probably cannot be over-exercised. . . . There should be frank anticipation of the college course, with the view to shortening the latter, for youth's brain power has been underestimated and the process of education, before settlement into gainful occupation and marriage, has been slow and long. The prolonged period of infancy characteristic of the human species has been safeguarded to the detriment of the species...
...activities which are conducted in the settlement houses are extremely varied. They range from tumbling and wrestling through the manufacture of model airplanes to debating and dramatics. The Committee believes that it is obviously better to direct the energies of the city's less fortunate children into these comparatively healthy channels rather than to allow them, with their undeveloped sense of values, to seek their recreation without any guidance...