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...University of Minnesota a powerful address for the inclusion of Reparations, Debts and armaments as major economic factors in the London parley. Putting aside his famed isolationist views, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on the U. S. to take a world lead in the settlement of world problems. Excerpts: "We can't restore confidence in the business world until the vast load of armaments are lifted from the overburdened backs of the people. . . . "Reparations, Debts and armaments are conditions precedent to a restoration of those conditions which would bring prosperity to the American farmer...
Spring Street. When the Thomas family moved to Lewisburg, Pa. Norman, aged 16, entered Bucknell College. After one year, thanks to a relative who had more money than the other Thomases, he transferred to Princeton. Upon his graduation in 1905, he took a job as a settlement worker in the New York slums. It shattered most of his dreams about the nobility of the downtrodden. Upon the wreckage, amid the dirt and filth of Spring Street, he built up a practical philosophy about the masses which serves him to this day. In 1910 he married Frances Violet Stewart. Their honeymoon...
...entertain the belief that the cancellation of the debts in connection with, and as a part of, a program including the settlement of other War problems would have the effect above indicated. But I am equally clear that the cancellation of these debts with nothing more than the present reparations adjustment would not have the effect above indicated...
...General Tang. Better for Japan than realty and opium are the three main products of Eastern Inner Mongolia, about one of which Emperor Hirohito spoke last week: wool, hides, wheat. With extreme Oriental acumen Governor Tang rushed eight motor truck loads of "treasure" from Jehol into the Italian Settlement at Tientsin last week. Thus, if General Tang sides with Japan, the Japanese garrison at Tientsin will render his treasure particularly safe. If on the contrary he sides with China, the Japanese will scarcely dare to seize treasure over which flies the flag of Italy...
...Heckled as to the exact meaning of the Lausanne settlement, gentleman's agreement and Accord de Confiance last week Premier Herriot told the Chamber flatly: "They mean that Frenchmen cannot be asked to pay more than they receive...