Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German Peace. Last week's Peace Plan of the German Government proved to be a remarkable document. Read by itself in one piece, it was eminently reasonable, generous and idealistic, calculated to convince any open-minded crowd in the world...
...this "irresistibly attractive" spiel, the British Foreign Office did not respond like a German election crowd. It looked in vain for one "positive" amelioration of the fact that after all Hitler had violated two international treaties when his soldiers marched into the Rhineland. Foreign Secretary Eden read the document's 3,000 words through carefully, listened to Ambassador von Ribbentrop's further remarks and strode to No. 10 Downing Street where waited the British Cabinet...
Chief among the sections adopted was the preamble, which recognized the principle brought out in the Ballantine-Bowditch proposals, namely that the Council does not have direct jurisdiction over individual students, a power given in the old document...
...This document, prepared in detail by Thomas H. Quinn '36, president of the Council, is the result of a discussion carried on at a Council committee meeting held on the last Thursday before vacation. It contains several new provisions and omits some useless powers included in the old document, but does not cut down the present size of the Council...
...Student Council last month by Ballantine and Bowditch has born fruit in the new constitution to be submitted to that body tonight. The most encouraging sign of a chastened Council is the abandonment of many glittering and outworn pretensions as shown in the preamble of the new document. Realizing that direct jurisdiction over students was a doctrine as wishful as it was impractical, the framers of the new constitution have settled back to accept a less spectacular but more fitting role. The chief function of the council will be, "to bring before the governing bodies of the College expression...