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Under the chairmanship of President von Hindenburg the Cabinet of the Reich, in full plenary session, recorded unanimously last week its complete concurrence with the procedure of Herr Stresemann and Dr. Luther in initialing the Locarno treaties (see INTERNATIONAL). Immediately thereafter the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag indicated that no opposition to the treaties need bo feared from the Central or Socialist parties, since Herr Stresemann had declared before it: "The Rhineland treaty contains nothing but renunciation of all aggressive attacks . . . and does not interfere with the self-determination of peoples or with any other kind of peaceful development...
...Long '26, who still retained the temporary chairmanship, opened the meeting and declared the former election of officers invalidated. Eduardo Sanchez '26, the original choice for vice-president immediately withdrew his name from the nominating ballot...
...Council of Ambassadors is composed of the Allied Ambassadors accredited for the time being to the President of the French Republic, meeting under the chairmanship of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs (at the present time Premier Edouard Herriot). It has been called "a body of vague authority and sporadic vitality...
...Madden, white-haired and 70, quarryman by profession (the profession which cost him a leg and sent him into politics), veteran in the political arena (as early as 1897, he made an unsuccessful attempt to gain a Senate seat from Illinois), he who, in 1921, was lifted into the Chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee over the seniority rule, because of his businesslike grasp of affairs, gathered his Western and Middlewestern cohorts and advanced on the Speakership. Mr. Madden, as described by the apt pen of Clinton W. Gilbert, "belongs to the line of watchdogs of the Treasury who growl when...
...Helsinki (Helsingfors),* capital of Finland, 300 Finnish citizens assembled under the Chairmanship of Premier Lauri Ingman. They were the electors appointed by the people to elect a President for the years 1925-31 in succession to Dr. Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg who, amid many protestations, had declined to stand for reelection...