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Last fortnight another of the promises sprayed about by British diplomats in 1917 came home to roost when Britain's Wartime Minister David Lloyd George reminded the House of Commons: "The Balfour Declaration [for a British-backed Jewish homeland in Palestine] was made at one of the darkest times in the War. The French army had mutinied, the Italian army was on the eve of collapse, America had hardly started to come in. There was nothing left but for Great Britain to confront the most powerful military combination the world has ever seen. We came to the conclusion that...
Forced to consider the possibility of another War and another "darkest time," Britain was last week inclined to take no chance of alienating that same "most remarkable community," even at the risk of antagonizing Britain's vast Moslem populations. In prospect for Palestine was one of those muddling-through, negotiating, chieftain-bribing, bloody campaigns of counterterrorism familiar in the history of British genius for government...
Although it rolled off Soviet Government presses nearly a month ago, the new Russian Constitution was still last week being kept the darkest of Bolshevik secrets. Curiosity is a major Russian trait and inquisitive tension throughout the Soviet Union was becoming terrific. With everyone fairly panting for news a few leaks oozed at last from the Commissariat of Justice. Comrade Andrei Philipov, Public Prosecutor of Moscow District, emitted the most startling hint. In 1930 was celebrated with great Bolshevik fanfare throughout Russia "The Decennial Anniversary of the Legalization of Abortion in the Soviet Union"-this always having been described...
TIME is my favorite magazine. It puts life and color into the dullest news topics. Its rapier thrusts puncture shams, deflate politicians; it illuminates the darkest corners of the world with its wit and wisdom. But that is not what I started out to say. In a review of the recent Kentucky Derby [TIME, May 11], which you generously and correctly described as "the nation's greatest horse race," you state that hundreds of celebrities and 70,000 other enthusiasts "made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs...
...darkest clouds have rolled away," said he with a wave of his fork. "Final settlement of the war in Africa will be possible after the next session of the League of Nations...