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...Council Committee on the vexed question of whether other nations than Germany should be admitted to the Council at the September session. 4) Debate upon a proposal to curtail the supervision now exercised by the League over Hungarian state finance. 5) Consideration of a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain requesting modifications in the established procedure of the Council in dealing with petitions from racial minorities...
...victorious Wafd parliamentarians assembled next day at a luncheon where spirits ran low. All were acutely conscious that the battleship Resolution was steaming toward Port Said from the British naval base at Malta. All knew that British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain had just cabled in especially imperious vein* to the impotent Egyptian government. When Zaghlul Pasha rose, all emotion, the Wafd beheld how Pyrrhic was its victory...
...Height, 29,002 ft. Second and third highest in the world: Everest's Himalayan neighbors, Mt. Goodwin-Austen, 28,250 ft.; Mt. Kinchinjinga, 28,146 ft. Highest in the Western World: Mt. Aconcagua (Chile-Argentina), 23,080 ft. Highest in North America: Mt. McKinley, Alaska, 20,300 ft. Highest in the U. S. proper: Mt. Whitney, Calif., 14,501 ft. Highest in Europe: Mont Elbruz, Caucasus, 18,465 ft. Highest Alp: Mont Blanc, 15,781 ft. Pike's Peak...
...Citizens of the U. S. favorable to the League of Nations recalled a statement of Sir Austen Chamberlain that the special Court conference is a mere common sense measure designed to get swift action upon the U. S. Senate's reservations by the nations already adherent to the World Court...
Brazil to Blame. Sir Austen Chamberlain declared privately before a committee representing all parties in the House that Britain will oppose the granting of a new permanent League Council seat to any nation other than Germany at the September League session. He added that, unless Brazil agrees not to repeat her veto tactics against Germany, Brazil will not be re-elected to her present nonpermanent seat. Sir Austen declared positively that Brazil's recent act blocking Germany's entrance to the League was due solely to orders from Rio de Janeiro, which he personally believed were given on account...