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...Harvard Athletic Association is in perfect accord with the sentiments of the Crimson given publicity last fall, namely: that over-emphasis on college football is detrimental to the good of the college and to the good of the game. Therefore, the Association feels that any effort it can make toward diminishing the usual fanfare attached to athletic enterprise is greatly to be desired. Hence, it at any time it becomes desirable to vary the schedule without breaking any existing convenants. Harvard is perfectly justified in so doing. And there is no reason to suggest that any inconsistency attaches to keeping...
Relenting the Secretary gave out a close-lipped interview: "There is nothing I can say about the debt accord; that passed out of our hands and went before Congress when Ambassador Berenger and I signed it. Of course, I advocate its ratification. It would be a poor agreement indeed if the man who wrote it did not support it. "Nobody expects the United States to try to ruin financially any nation which is trying to discharge her obligations...
...once to the foreign relations of Mexico and gladdened Wall Street by a guarded admission that the anti-foreign Mexican Land and Oil Laws (TIME, Jan. 25 et seq.) may eventually be modified "if in practice the Mexican government finds that the application of these laws is not in accord with the policy which has guided the attitude and aims of Mexico, or if experience advises modification within this same spirit of justice and equity...
...your communication . . . you have rightfully exercised your right of petition by applying to one of those able to initiate laws, but I must sincerely tell you that I am the least fitted person to comply with the said petition ... as the constitutional articles you protest against are in perfect accord with my philosophical and political conviction...
Briefly, Germany accords France "most-favored nation" commercial status under the agreement, and France extends similar trade preference to Germary, though avoiding by disguised phraseology the term "most-favored nation." As initialed, the accord becomes effective Aug. 20, 1926, is renewable every six months, is expected to smooth the way for a formal Franco-German trade treaty of similar scope...