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Commissioners Charles Beecher Warren and John Barton Payne (who had been in Mexico City the past three months) returned to Washington to lay the results of the "Mexican recognition conference" before the State Department. The details of the tentative accord which has been reached (see page 12) remain unknown until the publication of the minutes of the conference. But the Commissioners regard their work as completed...
...light cruiser Aurora was "adopted" by the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Socialist Union. Reason given: The cruiser (of its own accord) struck the decisive blow in the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Apparently some sentimental feeling on the part of Moscow caused this "adoption" to be made, for it was stated that a cowardly band of counter-revolutionaries tried to blow up the Aurora in a fit of blind rage...
...date. Last week the press was as optimistic as ever: The Journal of Commerce: " Before the end of next week it is expected that the two American Commissioners . . . will report the successful conclusion of their negotiations . . . " Public Ledger (Philadelphia) : "The American and Mexican Commission will sign the Warren-Roa accord Saturday (Aug. 11)." New York American: "Mexican accord waits on Coolidge-Approval on recognition expected by Tuesday...
...homely sentiments expressed In Poetry by Edgar Guest, Inspiring and Uplifting Thought Of 0. S. Marden go for naught; This Unregenerate Young Cuss Is utterly Impervious To what is recognized by You And Me as Beautiful and True. Right Thinkers all are in accord That such a one should be Abhorred; All Forward Looking persons Shun A Boy who never will be One Hundred Per Cent. American When he grows...
Among those who demurred against ratifying the treaty was Senator Lemery. "The Washington accord is merely to make certain the impoverishment of our fleet. England keeps the mastery of the world where she has naval bases, while the United States has the new world and a large part of the Pacific. Japan shares with these two Powers mastery of the world's waters...