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...proposed Protocol to the Covenant of the League of Nations-a document devised last summer to maintain the status quo in Europe, to enable European Powers to disarm and to set up a system of obligatory arbitration of international disputes under threat of combined punitive measures (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.)-was last week unanimously declared dead (because the British Commonwealth of Nations does not intend to sign it) and the whole question of security loomed large in the politics of Europe...
...special policeman, deputed to guard the Embassy, became suspicious. He asked her several questions in Italian, in which language the woman answered. She was waiting, she said, to see the Ambassador leave the Embassy and inquired when he was likely to come out. But this naive bantering did not disarm the bobby ; he seized her arms and made the discovery that up her sleeve, tight in her right hand, was a loaded revolver...
...attic. That does not mean donning dressing-gowns and slippers, for no real man is worth anything unless he can face the tempests. While the Opposition is calling on the Fascisti to march about with olive branches, they never show the least sign of a desire to disarm themselves. The recent crisis was useful because it clearly showed who Fascismo's real friends and foes are. The party does not want lukewarm adherents who will cast it off. The new Directorate which the Council meets to elect must be strong and disciplined." Italy's wheat crop has failed...
...strongest of nations, completely disarm, we may be overrun by other nations. But these other nations will realize that in these days of high division of labor our prosperity is essential to their prosperity. The passions of murder will not be let loose, and the invaders for their own well-being will recognize their dependence on our industrial prosperity...
...disarm, other nations will not disarm either. They are arming in self-defence as we are. And another war will be inevitable, a war which will mean complete disaster...