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Meanwhile Hearstian Viscount Rothermere peppered Indian potentates with cablegrams urging them to "Stand firm against the Bill!" Since pudding-headed Rothermere seems fated to fail in all political maneuvers, the Chamber of Princes promptly reacted by intimating to British correspondents that they have no desire to kill the India Bill, merely hope to obtain amendments more favorable to their rights as potentates. Snorted British Elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: "Let it be understood that we are not willing to allow this House to be driven from what they think right or to enter into a Dutch auction for the support...
Meanwhile Premier Flandin last week offered the unemployed of France a relief dodge based on the U. S. New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps. If the Chamber of Deputies supplies the funds, Flandin's CCC camps will be set up in 13 of France's 90 departments to put French unemployed to work at reforestation and roadbuilding, the men to get food, lodging, clothes and a wine ration, their families to get their wage...
Prominent in Berlin's American Chamber of Commerce are Jews. Last week they were unhappy. From all over the world irate Jews sent cables denouncing them for failing to denounce the Nazi Governor of Berlin, bullet-headed Dr. Julius Lippert, when he addressed the Chamber at luncheon thus: "Economically nothing has happened to the Jews of Germany. Not a single dispossession or destruction of a so-called Jewish enterprise has taken place. If a Jew has proved to the State that he is ready to fulfill all the duties put upon him which every other inhabitant of our Fatherland...
Suave alibi of Berlin's American Chamber: Nazi Lippert was their "guest...
...orders to resign from the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. The trial was limited by the Book of Discipline to one session every ten days. That it was even held publicly was a concession to Dr. Machen, who from the beginning was disposed to cry "Star Chamber...