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...Nazis intend to seize Danzig by promoting an internal coup in the city, Mr. Chamberlain said that such action would "at once raise grave issues affecting Polish national existence and independence." Added the Prime Minister: "We have guaranteed to give our assistance to Poland in case of a clear threat to her independence which she considers it vital to resist with her national forces and we are firmly resolved to carry out this undertaking...
...fellow mayors it would mean paying more for the money they borrow. Last week he told a House committee that ending the tax exemption would destroy the credit of U. S. municipalities. More interesting than his arguments was his threat: "If you tax the bonds of the City of New York, I'll tax every bit of real estate the Federal Government owns in New York. And I'll collect...
...dollar as low as 50% of its old value (present value 59?). The Administration has not used this power, has no present plans for using it except in some emergency if the pound sterling and the franc should collapse. The Senate proposed to let this power (a threat of inflation) expire-in effect, to take it back into the hands of Congress until it is again needed...
...Darwin Divide. Many scientists engaged in the controversy between biology and Mrs. Grundy over Darwin. Conklin was one of the few to do so who had a background of youthful religious fervor. He plumped for Darwinism early, tried to show reasonable Christians that there was no threat from evolutionary doctrine to a practical religion based on Faith, Hope & Charity and the Golden Rule. (Today his religion is a sort of altruistic, pantheistic idealism.) His feeling for religion did not cause him to spare his opponents a crack...
...Europe. As Far Eastern member of the anti-Comintern alliance, Japan is most useful to her German and Italian partners when she feels free to challenge Soviet Russia along the Siberian-Manchukuoan border. She is most menacing to Britain and France when she is poised as a free-wheeling threat to Singapore, French Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies. From 1935 to 1937 Japan was useful to the blackmail schemes of the Rome-Berlin dictators. After the war began, with a claimed 1,000,000 of her soldiers soaked up by the immensity of the yellow-brown