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...receive recognition of their belligerent rights after the withdrawal of "substantial" numbers of the foreign volunteers now fighting with their troops (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.). "Please, gentlemen, proceed," Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky unexpectedly told the Non-intervention Committee last week. "We [the Soviet Union] will step aside and abstain from voting on the controversial portions of the British plan [the Scheme], giving our blessing to the rest of it. Thus the door is not bolted, it is open. . . . Proceed, gentlemen, proceed...
Some weeks ago the Archbishop of Canterbury took as Primate of All England a straddled position on the bill, saying he would abstain from voting, and this freed the tongues of such unconventional clerics as the Bishop of Birmingham who last week cried: "I challenge the suggestion that bishops of the Church of England should not vote for the bill because remarriage after divorce is contrary to the traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery...
...action of leadership in requesting spectators at Princeton contests to abstain from the use of alcoholic liquors while attending these games will no doubt be open to much horrified criticism. It is a delicate subject at best, which college presidents have been too prone to approach from the aspect that "this matter presents no problem for us". Such whistling in the dark, however, seems decidedly off key when one is treated to the spectacle of any college football stadium after the game...
...Class of 1911 to pile on their own abysmal mediocrities. I am not now, and never have been a member of that dismal class. Thank God, I am 1910, and I suggest that if 1911 wants to wash its own very dirty linen in public, it at least abstain from splashing its cleaner neighbors...
...mouth," could be cured instantly by chloramine, a mouthwash containing chlorine (TIME, July 1, 1935). Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association two other investigators flatly contradicted Dr. Haggard with a report indicating that the only way to escape onion or garlic breath is to abstain from eating onions or garlic...