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...goal of the seven wise men, comprising the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9) is nobly to create a work able plan which will bring more autonomous sovereignty and wider democracy to 318,940,000 backward, caste-divided Indians, now split among themselves upon an infinitude of religious and political issues. If these seven men can devise a plan which will content both India and Britain they will have wrought like titans, heroes, messiahs. Said Sir John Simon, last week. "This is the biggest job I know. Now I will have...
Loomed one real issue, it arose from a hard fact: The Americas are split in regard to great triune ideal of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The U. S. stresses Fraternity because there are invested in Latin America some five billions of U. S. dollars. Fraternity is the best policy when seasoned with a little intervention...
...purely Congressional parties, the above ranking does not hold good. Not even James Clement Dunn ever split the hair of precedence between Mrs. President of the Senate (who is also Mrs. Vice President of the U. S.) and Mrs. Speaker of the House, who remain equally august in their husbands' bicameral spheres. Perhaps this hair will never be split, for, last week, James Clement Dunn's efficiency at policing drawing rooms was recognized by his promotion to the head of a newly created "Division of Protocols" in the State Department. His newly added duties will be to arrange...
...explosion's results: Four of the Langley's men badly injured and a dead man (Chief Carpenter's Mate James Raynor Ailsworth) identifiable only by his Masonic ring; a ragged split in the Langley's plane-landing top deck...
...addition China is a widely separated empire Its 18 provinces have no intercommunication. The railroad system is a mere toy, and connects only a few centers. Mountains and great distances split the people into separate units. Differences in the spoken language, southern and northern antipathies, and provincial jealousies augment this division. There are practically no news papers, and only ten per cent of the populace can read. It is impossible to build a national feeling or a public opinion with no tools...