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Significance. The picture is clear enough: two nations glaring at each other over the tops of their high tariff walls. There is no dispute as to the right of France to erect a tariff wall as high as that of the U. S., or even higher. The problem is one of expediency. The U. S. sends many things to France that, on account of superior production facilities, cannot be duplicated so cheaply in Europe. When there is no intent to protect home industry, if the policy of protection must indeed be pursued, it would seem a signal lack of judgment...
...present there exists a ban against lending France money, a course of action tacitly approved by Wall Street. But it was thought possible that U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon may recommend that U. S. President Coolidge and the U. S. State Department modify U. S. policy to permit a refunding loan...
According to the Soviet version, M. Traikowicz then rushed to a wall and attempted to reach a gun hanging there. One Kudjen, Bolshevik, whipped out his revolver, poured five shots into M. Traikowicz, who fell dead...
Scientists pondered the phenomenon. Was it an earthquake? Seis- mographs sensitized to the slightest disturbance for thousands of miles had recorded nothing. A tidal wave? No wall of water had been visible on the surface. Many hours later a northward moving hurricane did bang that part of the Atlantic into a colossal lather, but what manner of hurricane forerunner would travel invisibly beneath the surface? A convulsive bottom current? A ponderous flotilla of mad leviathans? A freak pelagic tide-rip seething in the depths as masses of the Atlantic changed position...
Married. Major General Robert Lee Bullard, 66, widower, retired War-time commander of the American Second Army, to Mrs. Ella Reiff Wall, 52, widow; in Manhattan...