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Striking, in view of Comrade Litvinoff's promise to President Roosevelt that members of the Soviet Government would abstain from fomenting Communism in the U. S., is the Soviet Encyclopaedia's flat statement that in 1929 Stalin flayed both the German and U. S. Communist Parties for their "rightist opportunism"-i.e. their failure to foment Communism with sufficient "leftist violence...
...applying for admission to William Jennings Bryan University, I am fully aware that the drinking of liquor of any alcoholic content whatsoever is not tolerated by the Institution. I hereby pledge myself to abstain totally from such indulgence in any degree, while a student in the University. ... I further pledge myself neither to smoke nor use tobacco or snuff in [the buildings] of the University; and should I indulge in the use of tobacco at all, I agree to confine myself to its use at the times and in the places designated. ... If a young woman, I pledge myself...
Havana's Chief of Police is Antonio B. Ainciart. Last week he issued a general order. No mention was made of the police habit of shooting anti-Machadoans on sight under the informal ley de juga, but, ordered Chief Ainciart, "The members of the force must abstain from harsh or insulting language in all cases...
...Nazis had already outdistanced the older Austrian Fascist group, the Heimwehr, as a political force. They were springing up in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, even Rumania, and all taking their orders from Handsome Adolf. In Fulda three weeks ago a conference of German bishops announced that good Catholics need no longer abstain from National Socialism. It was not impossible that should a Holy Roman Triple Alliance become a fact, Adolf Hitler, and not Benito Mussolini, might become Head...
Significance. Japan, barring collapse of her Government, retains power to abstain from and thereby hamstring both the coming World Economic Conference on which so much hope is pinned and the World Disarmament Conference, now bogged down among committees which haggle endlessly at Geneva...