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...when the news in question is framed to appeal to the sense of the ridiculous. But in the case of the now famous Yale Freshman riot of last June it is upon a succession of acts rather than upon a suddenly-announced penalty that opinion must be based. The threat to forbid the Freshman crew to race at New London unless all the offenders confessed and the actual disqualification from all activities of a large part of the Sophomore class are facts to be remembered in considering the latest plan for pledges of good behavior...
Yugo-Slavia will reject the agreement forced on her delegates by Mussolini's ultimatum (TIME, Sept. 3), demanding under threat that Italy might resume " liberty of action " in the Free City of Fiume. The Italian and YugoSlavian delegates had agreed on Aug. 31 to let Fiume, subject of debate since November, 1918, be administered by a mixed commission of Italians, Yugo-Slavs, and officials of the Fiume Free State Government, controlled by Italians. Mussolini "magnanimously" gave Belgrade until Sept. 15 to ratify her delegates' decision. But circumstances have changed. Italy has seized Corfu. If Italy remains at Corfu...
League's Action. Action by the League of Nations was thwarted by Italy's threat to withdraw her membership from that body. The League offered the alternative proposal that Italy and Greece submit their dispute to the World Court. Greece was willing and Premier Mussolini was expected to agree to this proposal. Britain favored settlement by the League, but France favored the Council of Ambassadors...
...cause of the threat was the issuance of an injunction by the Superior Court of Sacramento County forbidding the I. W. W. to act as an organization or as its officers and members. In view of previous I. W. W. threats of a similar nature, Sacramento has probably not much to fear...
...Industrial Workers of the World turned loose another threat. They plan an "early drive on Sacramento," the object of which is to teach that city a "lesson" for the prosecution of I. W. W. members under the criminal syndicalism law of California. The Wobblies would start a "reign of terror." The members would invade the city, fill the jails, start a free speech campaign, parade to the detriment of Sacramento's pride and complacence...