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...Lenin had a stroke and at the end of the year a second stroke. His place was taken by a troika or triumvirate. Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Stalin. Trotsky was already aware of, and alarmed at, Stalin's stealthy grasp of power. Lenin defended Stalin and warned against a split in the party. He began dictating a testament in which he reviewed his possible successors: "The two most able leaders of the present Central Committee are Stalin and Trotsky . . . Stalin has concentrated enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that...
...events which led to a split in the French Club present a problem for every student who belongs to an undergraduate organization: that of faculty interference in student activities. A faculty arbitrator is necessary for disputes within and between such organizations. But the Department of Romance Languages overstepped the rights of faculty last Wednesday night...
Since such reasonable doubt has been raised, it seems incumbent upon the House of Representatives to use its prerogative to investigate its colleagues. If the House Un-American Activities Committee is too busy, the whole House might split up for the task. Congressmen have always been interested in the security of the men holding the Senate seats from their state, so perhaps each state's Congressmen should operate on their own Senators...
...Frazier's cousins contested the will, and the contest failed. Secondly, Perryopolis, which was legally just a small part of Perry Township, had to set up its own government in order to comply with the terms of the will. Perry Township was hungry for a split of the bequest, and fought the division...
...efforts for both ratification and amendment. Proponents of the pact will have to sell a treaty still subject to changes. Even if there were no serious opposition to ratification of the treaty in European parliaments, American intervention would cause resentment. But with both the French and German Assemblies badly split on the bill, American warnings hand opposition parties a perfect theme song: Dollar Diplomacy. And even if the unfinished pact is ratified, future amendments will be that much harder. Knowing that they will get no second chance to junk the treaty, each member nation will hammer in its own proposals...