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Birthdays. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 92; Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, 83; Adolph Simon Ochs. 75; Lillian D. Wald, 66; Albert Einstein...
Amid tense excitement the British House of Commons met to hear Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, many times a defender of Japan at Geneva, state the embargo policy of his Majesty's Government. "If the supply of arms is to be stopped," said Sir John, "it can only be done by international agreement. . . . Existing contracts must be respected, but subject to this, the Government has decided, as from today, pending international consultation such as I hope for, the Government will not authorize nor issue licenses for the export either to China or Japan of [arms]. . . . The action...
Thus British munitions makers will be permitted to fill all the orders they had received up to last week from China and Japan, while at the same time His Majesty's Government receives credit in newspaper headlines for declaring a "temporary embargo." Not without reason is Sir John Simon hailed as the greatest and highest paid British lawyer of the age. Paris dispatches reported that the French Government would take the same stand as the British...
...John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, of influenza in London; Cinemactress Ruth Chatterton, of two broken fingers caught in an automobile door in Los Angeles; Senator Robert B. Howell of Nebraska, of "rundown condition" in Washington, D. C.; Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Panama, of stomach trouble in Washington, D. C.; Herbert Nathan Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan drygoods); after a heart attack in Manhattan...
...play is an Elizabethan comedy, written by Thomas Dekker, concerning a shoemaker who becomes Lord Mayor of London. H. L. Smith '35 as Firk and J. T. Dennison '34 as Simon Eyre, the shoemaker, were outstanding for their performances. M. F. English '33 as Sir Roger Oatley, G. P. Rosen '33 as Margery, the shoemaker's wife, and T. W. Nazro '34 as Sybil also deserve special mention. R. B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Master of the House, took the part of King Henry V, coming on the stage in the last act, preceded by a blare...