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Article XVI of the League Covenant, officially in force last week, prohibits "all intercourse between nationals'' of a Covenant-breaking State and other League States. Since the League has pronounced Italy a Covenant-breaking State, Geneva correspondents were on watch last week to see whether intercourse would be...
Sanctions- With Captain Eden as ringmaster, Nov. 18 was set as the date on which all League States will apply such of the proposed sanctions against Italy as their governments have ratified by that time. Most of the sanctions seemed likely to be applied by most League States. To the...
Such questions, so easy to raise, are well-nigh impossible to answer. Only the historian will be able to pass final judgment on the events now transpiring in Europe. But is all too clear that however fine the fact that the League is at last acting according to its Covenant...
The Constitution is neither a holy spirit of Americanism nor a sacred Ark of the Covenant. It represents a statement of fundamental principles of government which are to be applied by an agency of the government, the Supreme Court, to the changing conditions of American social and economic life. Thus...
"Overlate to stop a war, the Government ranged itself at the eleventh hour behind the Covenant at Geneva. Even now its action has been slow and halt hearted. While paying lip service to the League, it is planning a vast, expensive rearmament program which will only stimulate similar programs elsewhere...