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...learn in English A. To give those who enter by this plan a brief test of the sort used in the reading examinations for foreign languages, or to permit them to drop the course in November provided they have done satisfactory work, would, then, be only just, and might avert a long and unnecessary waste of time and effort by students and instructors alike...
London, Nov. 27--Great Britain today renewed her efforts to avert a naval race following Japan's forthcoming denunciation of the Washington Treaty of 1922 which established the present 5-5-3 naval ratio among the United States, Britain, and Japan, respectively...
Said M. Doumergue last week in a broadcast to Frenchmen a la Roosevelt: "The Constitution must be revised to avert a dictatorship, a foreign invasion and another war. The situation in Europe is such that instability of our Government might prove fatal. Many able statesmen sit in our Senate and Chamber but they are scattered among the numerous groups which make Parliament look like a kaleidoscope. They pass their time fighting among themselves to achieve a power [as Premier] which it is impossible for them to use well or usefully when they have obtained it. Is not all this...
...perilously near this week? then indeed the Peace of the World will be on the great team's gridiron. They would try to slow down the inevitable naval race, try to keep the Great Pacific War from becoming inevitable. Last week they were doing what they could to avert a break at London. There the U. S. is ably represented by trouble-shooting Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. But dispatches indicated that per-haps only in Tokyo can the trouble he is after be shot...
...hours without reduction in pay, but few people believed that NRA would dare impose such an extra burden on the cotton textile industry. Much of the industry itself did not even care if a strike were called, for many millmen felt that an involuntary shut-down would avert overproduction. To Mr. Sloan the threat of a strike was not so much a grievous danger as just one more hardship to be borne as the price of pioneering...