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...General Accord. Meeting in Geneva, the League of Nations' Far Eastern Advisory Committee received news of the President's speech six hours before it was delivered. Promptly the wheels of diplomacy began to revolve as scheduled. The Committee drew up a resolution carefully avoiding the word "war," but condemning Japan as an "invader," and accusing her of an infringement of the Nine-Power Treaty (guaranteeing China's territorial integrity) signed in 1922 by China, Japan, the U. S., Great Britain, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal. Next day, in Geneva, the League Assembly unanimously adopted the Committee...
...Bandler prophesies in a helter-skelter flow of words which many a listener last week found incoherent. Several of her ideas accord with those of British "Pyramidologists,'' who believe that in the courses of masonry and many tunnels of the Great Pyramid of Cheops are to be found prophecies of the world's history until the year 2045. Pyramidologists thought Sept. 16, 1936 was to be epochal for the world, but Prophetess Bandler now denies that she predicted anything like the world's end. She insists, however, that, known only to her, 300,000 people were...
Katherine W. Lane, eminent Boston sculptress who created the huge bronze images, spoke effusively about the difficulties which she encountered in the course of making the statues, and stressed the fact that in the case of the laboratories, the architect and the sculptress herself were always in perfect accord. She said she had named the animal on the right, Queen Bess, and the other, Queen Victoria...
...remained in Germany or gone back there I should probably not be alive today." His work has won appreciation outside of Germany, nevertheless he still considers himself a German writer, primarily for German readers: "From the beginning of my intellectual life I had felt myself in happiest accord with the temper of my nation and at home in its intellectual traditions...
...material restrictions now have surpassed their peak," said he. "Our food situation has shown that we cannot become independent of foreign imports within a calculable time. . . . These decisions have been made in complete accord with General Göring, who heads the Four- Year Plan...