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...Conference shoved off that duty upon France (see p. 20) but vented its feelings thus: "It was regretfully recognized that the method of unilateral repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles] adopted by the German Government, at a moment when steps were being taken to promote a freely negotiated settlement of the question of armaments, had undermined public confidence in security of a peaceful order. Moreover the magnitude of the declared program of German rearmament, already well in the process of execution, had invalidated the quantitative assumptions on which efforts for disarmament had heretofore been based...
...success of the House Plan insofar as the participation of the students is concerned should spur the authorities on to the final settlement of other problems, a compatibility between the scaling of dining hall prices and eating at clubs, a more normal scaling of room rents, and an individuality other than athletic and social...
...Yale debaters argued in vain that a policy of self-sufficiency was only postponing a problem which demands settlement eventually. For the United States to look to her own interests can bring her nothing more than the ire of foreign powers. In addition they argued that fascism, dictatorship, and militarism have come with the economic nationalism of Italy and Germany...
...Because the steersman was careless, Christopher Columbus' flagship Santa Maria went hopelessly aground somewhere off Haiti on Christmas Eve, 1492. The ship was unloaded and from her timbers the doughty admiral, bent on founding a colony, built a fort which he called La Navidad-his first New World settlement. Columbus traded falcon bells to the natives for gold, left 44 of his men in charge, sailed off to new adventures. When he returned to the island during his second voyage he found the fort burned, the men massacred by natives or scattered in the wilds. The question remained...
...Juan Hill," a settlement of some 40,000 on the middle West Side of Manhattan, was the Negro quarter before the War. The War and post-War industrial boom of 1917-18 brought thousands of unskilled workers North. In New York they spilled out of San Juan Hill into the Italian-Spanish colony of Harlem. By 1920 New York's Negro population had jumped to 250,000. The recession of the boom stranded the blackamoors, changed New York's "Nigger Heaven" into a "Nigger Hell...