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John Corbin, League correspondent for The New York Times, asked Count Harry Kessler, semi-official German delegate to the League Assembly and German delegate to the 1923 Williamstown Conference (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923), to explain the whys and wherefores of the German decision. Three questions were posed...
...Northern Government has been asked to facilitate the liquidation of the row by appointing a delegate to the Commission; but the North, suspicious of the vagueness of the Free State Act, steadfastly refuses. More recently, the matter was referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (TIME, Aug. 11). This committee recommended to the King that the North could not be forced to name a delegate for the Commission and that special legislation would be necessary before the British Government could arrogate to itself the right for making an appointment for Northern Ireland...
...Apparently the Communists thought that the Amnesty Bill-passed by the Chamber (TIME, July 21) and temporarily shelved by the Senate (TIME, Aug. 11)-was not being pushed by the Government with sufficient energy...
Crown Prince Umberto concluded his South American visit (TIME, Aug. 18, Sept. 15) with a brief but popular visit to Brazil. When last heard of, the warship San Giorgio was bearing him back to Benito's kingdom...
Manhattan's musical landmarks, famed for generations, are rapidly passing. Aeolian Hall will be turned into a "5 & 10" (TIME, Aug. 25), the Metropolitan Opera House, even, is threatened with replacement by something beautiful and modern (TiME, Aug. 25). And now Carnegie Hall, for 34 years easily the most distinguished setting for concerts in Manhattan, is to be sold, razed to the ground. This according to reports current in the world of real estate. In its place an office building, or an apartment house, of the zone-law, or neo-Babylonian type, will rear its tiers of terraces...