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...described a drunken fisherman of that resort in one of her novels without so much as mentioning his name. Lord Gorrell told the story, attached to it a moral in the shape of a bill to protect writers from such obviously "put up" libel suits. Sharply criticised, he withdrew the measure for revision...
...next day General Butler reported to Major General Lejeune in Washington, formally withdrew his resignation from the Marine Corps and was assigned to command the marine base at San Diego...
...prosecution called Major General Charles P. Summerall, who was originally President of the court martial and withdrew (TIME, Nov. 9) when Colonel Mitchell made charges against his fairness. He was reputed at that time to have said: "I thought Colonel Mitchell was my friend. Henceforth he and I are enemies." The defense asked him whether he had made such a statement...
...Freyre, the Peruvian representative on the Commission, naturally supported General Pershing. Señor Edwards, the Chilean Commissioner, who withdrew a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 7) as a protest against the Commission's "needless delay" in holding the plebiscite, was again on hand and demanded that Feb. 1 be set as the voting date. He again contended that Chile had no intention of coercing the voters and said that the Commission's instructions had been complied with to the letter...
Last week the deliberations of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission,* chairmaned by General John J. Pershing, reached an acute stage of discord when the Chilean representative, Agustin Edwards, withdrew from the Commission, protesting that there had been needless delay in promulgating the terms of the plebiscite, and that after four months of marking time no date for it had actually been...