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Premier Herriot was backed by all the small states of Europe. All thought that Premier MacDonald had put the cart before the horse?that is, that he had laid the emphasis upon arbitration and disarmament when it ought to have been on security...
...Reparations Commission shall find that Germany has made default, the Governments interested . . . will confer at once on the nature of the sanctions to be applied . . ." These words upset the apple cart in the Premiers' Conference.* They formed part of the recommendations of Committee No. 1 appointed by the Conference (TIME, July 28), to settle a method of determining possible German default under the Experts' Plan and to recommend what measures should be taken against Germany in case of default...
...report an American political effort toward remedying European chaos. "That is enormously significant, because it means the reawakening of American interest in European affairs. The average American says to himself: 'Now we have lent them a hand, after all, and at the very first try we pulled the cart out of the mud.' It does not matter whether that is altogether true or whether the main credit belongs to England. The Dawes report has had an even more beneficial effect on France, who will be compelled to reduce her pretentions to a European hegemony and her military expenditures...
...Chapel Hour should be changed to seven o'clock. I warrant that the more men there are at Chapel, the more men there will be who take an interest in Brooks House. This seems like putting the cart before the horse. Nevertheless, all these things are closely connected in the interest--or present lack of it--towards religious matters in the University...
...Americans. The Car-Yard and the gigantic adventure of freight-smoke and bells-the places the dusty freight-cars have been, the things they have seen! The life of a trackwalker on the subway, dodging 200 cannonball flyers a day for tiny wages-the sleights of a push cart man -the sandwichmen, those biting commentators upon our modern scheme of existence-the revivalists-the lovers of Little Italy-the bums-the men in the dark-the men in the storm-the men in the snow. Do you know of the white-draped cradle within the door...