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...Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers on the record-breaker Normandie last year received medals free before landing...
Peace without Punishment. In signing the Locarno Pact (TIME, Dec 14, 1925), Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium agreed that a formal decision by the League of Nations that it had been violated should "automatically" bring punitive measures against the treaty-breaker and free the injured parties to make appropriate use of their armed forces...
Unfortunately France will have "to give Hitler's pacifistic proposals the benefit of the doubt," because the desertion of her cause by Britain has rendered any other course of action suicidal. A world which can still put faith in the pious words of Europe's champion treaty-breaker will give Germany the twenty-five year breathing-spell she needs so urgently, while M. Francon's question-how does the presence of 90,000 troops in the Rhineland serve the cause of peace-goes unanswered...
...Angrily debated a motion recommending that the Covenant of the League of Nations be so revised that Sanctions can never again be applied nor breach of a frontier be cited by the League as grounds for punishing the treaty-breaker...
...obvious to every European was the effect Herr Hitler's intimidation was having upon Britain-what with Foreign Secretary Eden urging not punishment of Germany but consideration of the treaty-breaker's terms -that Mr. Baldwin instinctively asserted the contrary, whistling to keep up Britain's courage. "Neither His Majesty's Government nor this people would ever be intimidated by threats," he boomed. "As a nation we could go on longer than others and, if driven to it [war] we should not hesitate!" After these words of fire, the Prime Minister, conscious that it will take...