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American women who curtsey three times at Court. Yet in at least half the hearts in Ireland burns a fierce hatred of the Emblem of Monarchy. To uphold this mere emblem Canadian Premier Bennett has not had to use bullets; but Irish President Cosgrave has, by due process of law. Every year of the past decade batches of Irishmen who wanted a republic badly enough to fight for it have been shot. Spattering lead creates the practical difference between Canadian "dominion status" and Irish, for there is no legal difference...
...Council will prepare one of the three teams in the next few weeks for the first spring debate on March 12. On this date the Crimson forensic team will uphold the Crimson forensic team will uphold the affirmative side of the topic "Resolved: That Congress should enact legislation providing for the centralization of industry" against the University of Florida invaders in the Fogg Art Museum. On March 31 the University team will clash in debate with Oberlin College on the subject "Resolved: That some form of socialism should be adopted in the United States", and will uphold the negative side...
...next three debates, the general topic of capitalism. On Saturday, February 20 the debaters will face Dartmouth in Cambridge, speaking on the subject, "Resolved that capital is a failure." The sides of the question have not as yet been assigned, but it is probable that the Crimson will uphold the affirmative. The second debate on capitalism comes on Saturday, March 12, when the team meets an aggregation from the University of Florida, probably speaking on the affirmative side of the topic "Resolved, That Congress should enact legislation providing for specialized control of industry." On Thursday, March 31 it will uphold...
...last week to be on the point of negotiating a compromise with Ambassador Debuchi in Washington, though this did not receive official confirmation. The compromise was understood to be on "realistic lines," taking into consideration that anarchy would follow abrupt withdrawal of Japanese troops from Manchuria, yet striving to uphold China's more flagrantly violated rights; the compromise to lead to direct negotiations between China and Japan...
...miners while forty to fifty miners are indicted for the killing of three deputy sheriffs. Miner's pay is forced down to eighty cents a week; three thousands out of the eighteen thousand miners are blacklisted. Local officials regard themselves as the agents of the mine owners; local clergy uphold the violence and the starving-out tactics of the operators, and only bloodshed could come out of this starvation. The Press has proved "traitor" to the working class, while "under the pretext of combating communism, the mine-owners are giving Communism every support and justification...