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Raymond Elaine Fosdick was elected president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the allied Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board two winters ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935), took active charge in July of last year, replacing two retiring presidents, Trevor Arnett and Max Mason. For a quarter-century before that Fosdick had...
Up to July last year the League of Nations had received six unwelcome letters from six Latin American countries-Costa Rica, Brazil, Paraguay, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras-announcing their withdrawal from the League. Since withdrawal is provided for in the League's Covenant it must be accepted, and automatically takes...
El Salvador, not much bigger than Maryland, with a population of about 1,500,000, was one of the Central American countries that did not declare war on Germany. As a neutral she was invited by the League to join up at the outset, signed the Covenant in March 1920...
On New York's lower East Side 93 years ago, twelve public-spirited Jews, headed by one named Henry Jones, met in Sinsheimer's Essex Street barroom. Before the matzoth crumbs were swept away they had established a philanthropic society known as B'nai B'rith...
Belgium, though still technically committed by the Locarno Treaties to defend Britain or France if either should be attacked, has long been ready to let the rest of Europe go hang. Handsome young King Leopold III seven months ago gave out that his country intended to "follow a policy exclusively...