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League Council. When President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State became President of the League Council (by alphabetical rotation) last week at Geneva British journalists started a story that he would open it in Gaelic, thus setting off a chorus of "ye-ah...
...Japan's representative, Dr. Haruichi Nagaoka, who drew whispers of "ye-ah?" and derisive laughter several times during his plea that "floods, mud and storms at sea" have so delayed transmission of the Lytton Report on Japan's occupation of Manchuria that release and discussion of the Report by the Council must be long delayed. League presses were at that very moment printing the report for, as China's Dr. W. W. Yen scathingly observed, there happen to be such things as telegraphs, cables and radio...
...Bombay the resident correspondent of the London Times obtained from returning Lord Lytton this statement: "It will be difficult to keep 31,000,000 Chinese [in Manchukuo] under the rule of 280,000 Japanese indefinitely"?to which the Japanese comment in Geneva was "ye-ah...
Barnard College's Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 54, had an organ grinder haled into court when he refused to leave her window. Said he, pleading that he thought she was a student, "Ah, but the beautiful lady looked so young. . . ." Sentence was suspended...
Well printed and made up, Babies was aimed with care and force at all persons who "ooh" and "ah" over small children. The pictures were well chosen for cuddle and dandle appeal. There were unknown babies (but no pickaninnies), royal babies (Baroness de Bardossy of Hungary), socialite babies (Peter & Palmer Dixon of Southampton, L. I.), champion babies (Gillingham F. Landis, onetime winner of the Ocean City, N. J. baby parade). There was no mention of deceased baby-of-the- year Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. or unborn baby-of-next-year Smith Holman Reynolds. Promised for the next issue...