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Governor Olson's threat to attack misery by declaring martial law and confiscating private property was the first of its kind in the land. Newspapers picked up his words and headlines far beyond the borders of the State made conservative readers shudder. The Governor and the State Senate fell to political bickering over relief principles as the day for the Legislature's adjournment this week approached. Only if it went home without action would the Olson threat become more than tall talk...
...foreign correspondents voted 60 to 7 to stand by their president. Immediately came a threat from gnomelike Minister of Propaganda Goebbels that the Foreign Press Association would be abolished for its brashness...
...Australia's huge borrowings since the War. To humor their grudge, the State Legislature last December scheduled a state-wide referendum on two choices: 1) a Commonwealth convention to revise the Constitution; 2) secession from the Commonwealth. The rest of Australia remained calm at Western Australia's threat to jump off the edge of nowhere. Wartime Premier William Morris Hughes called secession "a crude and futile expedient." The Attorney General told the farmers that the Commonwealth Constitution provided no means by which a state could legally secede. The Commonwealth Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons went to reason with them...
...provide that a breach of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact "is a matter of interest to all parties . . . and . . . that in the event of a breach or the threat of a breach of the Pact there is to be a conference between the parties if any five of them, including one at least of the Great Powers, so request...
...save for Rev. R. Lester Mondale of First Unitarian Church who took Dr. Tittle's side. Chided the Christian Century in nearby Chicago: "If the ministers of Evanston-or of the other communities in which similar pieces of browbeating will undoubtedly be attempted-knuckle under to an implied threat of this sort, they will deserve nothing but the moral and intellectual slavery into which they will deliver themselves...