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...Dawes Plan. "The finding of the experts, which is known as the Dawes report, has recently been made and published. It shows ... a broad comprehension of the requirements of the situation. It has been favorably received by the Reparations Commission. It is gratifying to understand that the Allies are looking upon it with full sympathy and Germany has expressed a willingness to coöperate. ... A situation at once both intricate and difficult has been met in a most masterful way. Our countrymen are justified in looking at the result with great pride. Nothing of more importance to Europe...
...Italy the press fulminated. The Giornale d' Italia said: "We perfectly understand the motives which have prompted the measures passed by the American Congress, but we think that American public opinion would be well advised to take into consideration also another aspect of problem. Hundreds of thousands of Italians who live in America have, with their work, intellect and enterprise, contributed to the progress of the great Republic. It must be true that they often succeeded in gathering wealth for themselves, and that under the protection of the Star-Spangled Banner they have obtained advantages which their own country could...
...This Ingersoll lecture will not be like its predecessors." Mr. Philip Cabot '91 told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "They have been delivered by scholars and addressed to scholars," this one will be delivered by a plain man, not too old to understand how younger men feel, with a view to meeting the questions in regard to immortality which naturally arise in young men's minds...
...association, as I understand it, gathered together for the better enforcement of the law. Now just what is it we mean by the law? . . . It is very easy to enact legislation. We have State Legislatures and the National Congress, that each year put upon the statute books of our country thousands upon thousands of different enactments undertaking to regulate and control our conduct. . . . I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. It is a maxim of our institutions that the Government does not make...
...minor scene occurred when Mr. Masterman, Liberal, made a request for information to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. The Chancellor thought the request offensive and said: "My right honorable friend can understand from the answer exactly what his intelligence enables him to apprehend." Thereupon loud cries of "Withdraw!" rent the air. The speaker said he did not think the question was offensive and the Opposition (Conservative) and Liberal cries turned to cheers...