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...approaching a crisis in the politics of Europe--probably the greatest crisis since 1919. Also amid the welter of conflicting opinions and actions it is becoming more and more clear that security is at least as important a factor in the French attitude as is reparations. Any successful settlement must provide security for France...
...United States, labor and freedom of contract have in general been allowed to develop under few restrictions. The Supreme Court has just ruled against the state law of Kansas which prescribed compulsory settlement of wage disputes. This law had imposed the greatest measure of state interferenced in Labour Problems yet attended in the United States, and even this much has been discouraged by the Supreme Court...
...other always lets slip some inadvertent bit which blights their budding amity. Uncle Sam, with his bluff, outspoken manner, has been charged most frequently with this offense, but now there can be no doubt that John has been the offender. However happy Americans have felt over the settlement of the British debt question, they cannot but take umbrage now when London challenges New York's title to speed. Certainly nothing could teach them more nearly, and they will be proud of the agile swiftness with which two champions have arisen in New York to deny the monstrous allegation...
Progress toward a settlement now hangs on the German political situation. Increased pressure is being brought to bear on Cuno by Stressemann, head of the People's Party, and Breitscheid, leader of the Socialists. As reported (TIME, May 12), an understanding is being reached between these two parties with a view to ousting Cuno. This done, the real offer to the Allies will follow as a matter of course...
...before Mr. McAdoo, then Secretary of the Treasury. The proposition, which was for the creation of Federal Reserve branches in the South American countries, was turned down because of the peculiar circumstances arising from war conditions, but that action should in no way serve as a precedent for the settlement of this question, except in that making the decision in 1915, the Board then assumed that the Reserve Banks had a perfect right to establish branches. At that time the sole factor considered was expediency, and there is no reason, as some people have believed, for now questioning the legality...