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Scots Who Ha'e. Scottish nationalists appeared as puzzled as the police. In the last year, 1,700,000 Scots who believe that Scotland suffers from the centralization of government in London have put their signatures to the Scottish Covenant, a petition asking for a Scottish parliament. But serious...
For Glasgow, it was the week to elect a new rector-a distinguished man from public life whose job it will be for the next three years to represent students on the university court (Glasgow's administrative head is known as the principal). Following a tradition dating from 1858...
Scotches-Scot. On the big day the students ranged themselves according to their home districts, filed into the student union to cast their ballots. After a half-hour's voting, the booths were closed to allow time for more shoving and throwing of fishheads. After 90 minutes of such...
At Versailles, Smuts worked vigorously with Wilson on the League Covenant, with equal vigor opposed the harshness of the terms imposed on Germany, arguing that a generous peace was more likely to last. Between the wars, he was out of office for nine years. When war came again, the pro...
Sunde asked if anyone else wanted to speak before the vote. There was a long silence. Then China's Tsiang Ting-fu spoke, with quiet eloquence, of an anniversary. It was the seventh day of the seventh month; he reminded the Council that on Double Seven-July 7, 1937...