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...subject, in short, is seating. Where do we sit and how many of us has been a casus belli and cause celebre at many a Commencement before this, and it's likely to be again if everybody doesn't watch...
...Halloween celebration on the part of a certain firebug element among the undergraduates was the consensus of opinion as to the casus belli. The immediate result was a half hour traffic tieup, during which time the delayed motorists expressed impatience in the usual harmonious fashion...
Degiac Kassa and General Mariotti thought alike. Before the General was able to unlimber his camel guns, volley upon volley of rifle fire echoed from the cliffs. Skirmish lines went out, runners raced for munitions, support. Colonel Belli, the General's second-in-command, ran forward to help the mountain battery, got bullets in a hand and knee...
Later in the day at Geneva a decision was handed out on the original Italo-Ethiopian armed clash at Ualual (pronounced walwal), the No. 1 specific causus belli. The arbiter, Dr. Niccolas Socrate Politis, a big-eared, beady-eyed little Greek Diplomat who for years has been a pushing League careerist, decided solemnly that "from an international standpoint" neither Italy nor Ethiopia was to blame for that bloody encounter in which 32 Italians and 107 Ethiopians were killed...
Your excellent editorial of yesterday entitled "Causa Belli" betrays such a perspicacious analysis of the issues in the Charlestown incident, and such an equilibrated sympathy for all parties involved, that I feel sure into have been inspired by the following fable from the works of an obscure disciple of Aesop, Permit me to quote from...