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...many Englishmen, though not of course those in closest touch with the situation, think that the basis of negotiations [at Ottawa] will be a free entry for Dominion food and raw materials into the United Kingdom (with tariffs against foreign countries) in return for a similar free entry of English manufactures into the Dominions. This, of course, is a complete illusion. Canada, Australia, South Africa and India, especially the first, have all become largely industrialized on the basis of tariffs, and they have no intention whatever of allowing effective English competition with their industries...
Because Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes, Lithuanians, Poles, Danes, Armenians, Serbians, Greeks, Estonians, Syrians, Letts, Icelanders, Norwegians and especially the Japanese think it is effeminate, many a modern Frenchman has abandoned the ancient & honorable Gallic custom of greeting friends with a resounding kiss on the cheek or jaw. So widespread has become the custom of shaking hands in France that last week the august L Académic de Médecine was asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands...
...book is written in much the same manner as the daily review of the Royal Academy exhibition. The words round out nicely, but when you come to analyse them, they mean little or nothing. It seems to be the sort of criticism in which Englishmen excell...
...agreement by which markets could be kept steady, profitable. Last week the conference broke up without results. Secrecy hid all the conference's deliberations but reasons given for the breakdown by oilmen were numerous: 1) The Russians would make no agreement for more than three years, the defensive Englishmen and Americans sought a ten-year pact. 2) The Russians declined to limit exports to the 1931 level, refused to give up their distributing facilities in England, Germany, Spain. 3) There was lack of unanimity between the U. S. and British groups, lack of agreement between members...
...collector of notes on subjects that have diversity-such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a sudden appearance of purple Englishmen," Author Fort found chief interest less in single marvels than in marvelous relations and coincidence. With humorous seriousness he retells here, mostly from newspaper sources, scores of gruesome or simply inexplicable incidents, tries to find a place for them in his philosophy. Rabid vampires, with white streaks of froth on their bloody mouths, flitting through the jungles of Trinidad seem to him connected with more human affairs. In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from...