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...weeks all French newspapers have been muttering that political parties of every complexion were arming for civil war, but here was the first official threat to the Government. Premier Doumergue won his point that to balance the budget the pension cuts must be retroactive from April 1, then hastened to comply with other parts of the veterans' demands...
...persons of the Bavarian sisters Philomena and Catherine Schmidt who had been unofficially accused as German agents during the War. Methodical M. Sarret found the Schmidt sisters elderly, invalid husbands and insured them. The husbands promptly died and Georges Sarret pocketed most of the insurance money on threat of turning the Schmidt sisters over to the police as poisoners and War spies. From then on the business prospered. Sarret, Schmidt & Cie. made its first mistake when healthy Catherine Schmidt insured herself for a million francs as Mageli Herbin, and the real Mageli Herbin promptly died of pneumonia. Insurance companies became...
...near future there is to be a Congressional investigation of American munitions industries, and it is to be hoped that no pains will be spared to bring to light the truth about these firms whose practices constitute so serious a threat to world peace. If the investigation is given the publicity it deserves, there might conceivably be adopted legislation restricting if not prohibiting the shipment of armaments beyond the borders of the United States...
...their opinions. But in the Foreign Office, a marmoreal calm apparently prevails. Mr. Wang ChingWei, the Foreign Minister, assures the Legislative Yuan that the Chinese government is paying no attention to Japan's recent statements. On second thought, Mr. Wodehouse seems to have more reason to fear the Chinese threat rather than his Japanese rival. CONFUCIUS...
...peace. But this keenness for peace does not imply that America should be defenseless. It does not mean that we can dispense with even the meagre framework of an army of which the student R.O.T.C.'s are a small part. Such casual training of volunteers holds no possible militaristic threat. The R.O.T.C. members are simply wise enough to know that peace cannot be obtained by weakening our already utterly inadequate army...