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Texas and Oklahoma are not independent Balkan powers. If they were, they would have been at war last week, with a frontier bridge across the sluggish Red River as causa belli. As it was, Oklahoma's bewhiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray† declared martial law and called out guardsmen on his side of the river. Half a mile away on the other side, Texas' corpulent Governor Ross Shaw Sterling posted a detachment of his Rangers for military duty. The real fighting, however, was done in the columns of the Press...
...result of these policies, which lot her future schedule with Harvard uncertain, is unfortunate; but the manner and extent of the break were of her own choosing. A Harvard Lampoon editorial and murmurs of dirty football hardly entered into the situation except as the former furnished a convenient casus belli for the Princeton authorities. The breach was inevitable as long as Princeton insisted on being recognized as of equal importance with Yale, not can it be healed as long as this attitude prevails. However, the merits of the controversy are of small import compared with the value in forcing...
...Causus Belli. When Reijiro Wakatsuki was Minister of Home Affairs (1924-26) he allegedly promised a group of Osaka real estate speculators that if they would contribute 200,000 yen ($100,000) to the funds of his party (Kenseikai) he would issue an order transferring the filles de joie of Osaka to a new quarter of the city owned by the speculators. The money was paid, but the order was not issued. Recently the aged onetime (1914-16) Minister of Communications K. Minoura was thrown into jail on charges arising from the incident. Premier Wakatsuki, called to testify, whitewashed himself...
...Lockout-Strike." The long standing causa belli was, of course, the long standing demand of the British Coal Miners' Federation for continuance of the seven-hour day and a national minimum wage scale 33 1/3% above the pre-War wage...
...Versailles. The French Nationalists were of two views. On one hand, they had negotiated a series of alliances on the Continent which were designed to insure French ascendancy. They were told that the main advantage of the proposed five-power pact was that Britain would consider as a casus belli any violation of that pact. This, they argued, was accepting British protection and surrendering French continental supremacy. On the other hand, they were cynical of making any paper agreement with Germany, pointing to the fate of the Treaty of London guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium. After making the reservations that...