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...unicameral National Assembly of not more than 120 members, elected for three years. Salary: $2,500. The annual meeting of this Assembly shall not last over 100 days and no special session shall last over 30 days. In times of war "or other national emergency," the Assembly can confer dictatorial powers on the President...
Never perhaps had a British Foreign Secretary departed amid greater misgiving. If Sir John triumphed, he would deserve double acclaim, for he was considered last week to have pretty well bungled things in advance. In the House of Commons, where he had dallied persistently last week, refusing invitations to confer with the Premiers of France and Italy, Sir John created an impression so unfortunate that Sir Austen Chamberlain K. G., who had been expected, as a onetime Foreign Secretary and half-brother of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, to felicitate His Majesty's Government on the "mission...
...mission to Berlin in a light so dazzling that out of it he might emerge with the Order of the Garter. Few Englishmen and no Frenchman or Italian believed him when he told the French and Italian Ambassadors in London that he could not find time to confer with Premier Flandin and II Duce before going to Berlin "because of engagements...
Because she has kept up for 15 years the U. S. and Scottish philanthropies of her late husband and because she customarily spends her summers at Skibo Castle in the Scottish Highlands, the Senators of St. Andrews University voted to confer an honorary Ll.D. on Manhattan's venerable Mrs. Andrew Carnegie...
...John Simon that Hitler was "suffering from the cold he caught in the Saar," evoked hearty English mirth, painful when reported to inferiority-complexed Nazis. Next Sir John let it be known that Etonianly elegant Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden would pass Berlin by en route to confer with the Government of Poland and the Government of Russia...