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...supplies out of Wartime shacks and put it into permanent buildings. You have got to do it. You have no choice. If you do not do it this year you have got to do it next year, or the year after that, or you have got to abolish the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Flippant Philosopher | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...Prepared as an aftermath of the de Clifford manslaughter case (TIME, Dec. 16 et seq.) to abolish the right of an accused lord to trial by his peers. Reason: taxpayers object to forking up the $50,000 such trials can cost. Introducing a motion to brand the right of a peer to trial by the House of Lords as "archaic," Bachelor Viscount Sankey, recently Lord Chancellor, last week declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Feb. 17, 1936 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...Appearing at Geneva for the first time as British Foreign Secretary, handsome young Anthony Eden brought the Empire's vast influence to bear squarely upon Danzig. In an abject climb-down, Senate President Arthur Greiser of this minute State agreed that its Government of native Danzig Nazis will abolish flagrant undemocratic abuses at the demand of Mr. Eden. The League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King Edward VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Diplomatic Billingsgate | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...This is not only a war of Italy to subjugate a small and helpless nation in Africa. It is a struggle between two oars. Slowly and painfully, organized society is attempting to abolish the war system and establish the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Technical Advisor to Saar Plebiscite Proclaims Superiority of Roosevelt's Policy of Neutrality | 12/3/1935 | See Source »

...other way is to abolish the requirement altogether, and this is the only valid solution. If Latin needs compulsion to help it win proselytes, it doesn't deserve them. But Latin is far from being the dead language it is usually called. It still has enough vitality and allurement to win scholars by its own powers. Thus the only course of wisdom is to kill the crippled Latin requirement, the last vestige of the tyranny of the Roman Empire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KILL THE COMPROMISE | 11/19/1935 | See Source »

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