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...declared Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week as he extended his fourth diplomatic recognition within 50 days to a revolutionary government in South America.* Practice had given him a technical perfection in dealing with these matters. Therefore he did not accord the provisional government of Provisional President Getulio Vargas in Brazil a brand-new recognition which the revolutionary change in administration warranted, but paid the new regime the higher compliment of continuing friendly relations just as if President Vargas had taken office by constitutional means...
...from "The Socialist" coming at this late date, appears rather superfluous, but to your editorial on Military and Naval Science I take violent exception. Your pacifism is well calculated to please conservative professors of Social Ethics and the staid dowagers of Back Ray, but it is strictly not in accord with your manifestation of being liberal. A college, liberal in the finer sense, should include and encourage as many diversified subjects as its students will support. That militarism is not academic is true but neither is publishing a daily news paper for amusement and financial profit...
International peace is a bromidic subject, but in this connection it is wise to remember that international education does much to foster universal accord. Therefore it is vital that America send her best to study at foreign colleges, and that these men be distributed over as many countries as possible. The new Rhodes Scholarship plan should make both these ideals a reality...
Another speaker was John Ackerly, a member of the Cambridge police force who performs the specialized task of bringing into court those defendants in domestic cases who refuse to obey the stipulations of the probation officer and who refuse to come into court of their own accord. Mr. Donovan has developed a reputation in Cambridge for knowing the underworld...
...entirely in accord with the spirit of your editorial this morning--It was the berries--Seriously I really thought it was swell...