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...platform of "Scrap the Treaty of Versailles" (TIME, Sept. 22), much might have been different at Versailles last week. M. Briand ignored Herr Hitler last year, continued his peaceful rapprochement with Germany. But half the shopkeepers in France had been scared out of their wits. The Hitler threat had time to fade and blend, but suddenly came the threat of Anschluss (TIME, March 30, April 6). Dr. Julius Curtius, the German Foreign Minister, negotiated with Austria a plan for a Zollverein (customs union) with Germany, in such heavy-handed fashion that everyone knew Anschluss (a political union...
Softly Mr. Pei next breathed a threat that if Occidental countries do not cooperate with China in rehabilitating silver she may retaliate by an embargo against all silver imports. Today China buys more silver than any other country, and the Occident is anxious to sell. But Threatener Pei hastily added that China is still open, wide open, to any and all favorable offers. These he proposed to crystallize by calling under I. C. C. auspices an International Silver Conference later this year. In 48 hours this Pei plan was whipped into shape?Senator King of Utah (silver State) aiding?...
...extension of time for parties until 2.30 a.m. and the abolition of a ruling "forbidding the parking of girls on fraternity porches during the daytime," and threatening, if these demands were not complied with, to call a strike "against all extra-curricular activities." Here are real issues and a threat of real action. Let those who despair of American students note the incident and take courage; for the spirit of Lexington and Bunker Hill is not dead. Consider a strike against all extra-curricular activities with the baseball season nearing its culmination and outdoor theatricals and Commencement festivities approaching...
...session on the diamond yesterday was Coach Fred Mitchell's prescription for the faltering Harvard baseball nine which meets New Hampshire University today at 4 o'clock. In view of the Crimson's 9-7 defeat by Colby on Tuesday, the Granite State aggregation must be considered a valid threat...
...months New York City's 6,930,446 citizens have been living under the threat of an acute water famine this summer. The 1930 Drought followed by a mild winter of little snow has halved the normal supply to carry the city through the year. Every little rainfall this spring in the vast Hudson River watershed has made welcome news in the metropolitan Press. Public officials have issued warning after warning. Campaigns (welcomed by plumbers) to repair all leaky faucets have been pressed. Citizens caught sprinkling their lawns or washing down their front sidewalks were liable to arrest. Looming...