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...favored by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, reputed future Prime Minister. In League Secretariat circles everyone believes Mr. Chamberlain wants to have eliminated from the League Covenant its three most vital articles: Article X under which League States guarantee each other's territorial integrity and independence; Article XVI under which Sanctions are adopted against an aggressor; and Article XIX in which provision is made for revision under League auspices of treaties. If these articles were scrapped, the United Kingdom could take an aloof attitude toward war on the Continent, whereas today her obligations under the Covenant make this...
Appointed Secretary to the Committee for Foreign Affairs by Congress, Paine's first run-in with Congress occurred when lukewarm members resented his interference with Tory maneuvers. His second disagreement was more serious, lost him his job. Under a secret understanding with France, Louis XVI turned over to the wily courtier Beaumarchais 1.000,000 livres, which was to reach America in gold and gunpowder. But when the commercial agent for Congress, Silas Deane, arrived in Paris to buy munitions, Beaumarchais said nothing about the money, arranged instead through a dummy company of his own to exchange munitions for tobacco...
...Treaty is for 20 years, but Article XVI provides that it must be succeeded by a similar pact, and commentators this week called it a Treaty of Perpetual Military Alliance. Under its terms the British Royal Air Force may at all times operate over Egypt. The British Navy will have a permanent base at Alexandria for which it will pay rent to Egypt. And the Egyptians agree to build strategic roads fanning out from the British Garrison in the Suez Canal Zone so that British troops may rapidly reach any part of Egypt...
...MOUNTAIN AND THE PLAIN-Herbert Gorman-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Long (653-pp.), slow-moving, historical novel of the French Revolution, revolving around a 21-year-old hero who saw everyone from Tom Paine to Lafayette, and everything from the fall of the Bastille to the Execution of Louis XVI...
...Readers' popularity spread and Professor McGuffey marched up to his famed Sixth Reader, he thought less of his pious models, drew freely on Shakespeare, Byron, Scott, Whittier, all of whom he hacked to suit his purpose. He launched a series of Great Characters, solemnly revealed that Louis XVI "took his very emetics in state, and vomited majestically in the presence of all his nobles." Of Lafayette: "Others have lived in the love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great...