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President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay, indicating that he feels he has removed from his country a Red canker of Revolution, decreed the end of all his Government's "extraordinary measures to avert internal disorders," proclaimed a joyous amnesty, invited Uruguayan political exiles to come home if they please...
...attacked by Italy in the course of application of sanctions. . . . Why should I not frankly confess my fear and dread of an incident of the sort which history often produces, an incident which could drag France into a war which I have done everything to avert. The more rigorous the obligations imposed upon France by the League become, the more I have felt bound to endeavor to put through a peaceful settlement. ... It is understood that the Paris proposals [The Deal] are dead, but the road to conciliation remains open. . . . My will is not broken because it has proved...
Meanwhile last week His Majesty's Loyal Opposition-the Labor Party- demanded an opportunity before the snap election to present and have the House of Commons debate a motion censuring the Government for shortcomings in regard to unemployment relief. To avert this and gag the Opposition last week, Mr. Baldwin declared: "The question of unemployment is of profound importance [but] I am afraid the only thing to do in the circumstances is. in the words of the sporting papers, to change venue. A vote of censure will be moved in the country before the one tribunal by whose decision...
...League of Nations, now Ambassador to Rome, was suddenly called back to London for a conference with the Cabinet. Hard-working Capt. Anthony Eden, only just recovered from a heart attack, was appointed British agent for a suddenly called Franco-British-Italian conference at Geneva to try to avert something almost as embarrassing as a war-formal action by the League of Nations Council, meeting this week in its 86th session. Since 1923 Abyssinia has been a League member in good standing...
Meanwhile President Harriman and his moderate followers still thought they could avert an open break with the Administration by tempering the Chamber's resolutions - traditionally the planks in the U. S. Business platform. But the 1,500 delegates gathered in the Chamber's building across Lafayette Park from the White House determined to put on record once & for all their various New Deal grudges. In the most uproarious session in the Chamber's history, with the proposals of the resolutions committee often rewritten on the floor, the Chamber declared its opposition to 1) the Social Security Bill...