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...from the Soviet Press last week was the fact that President Roosevelt has withdrawn the moral approval which 165,000,000 Russians were happy to think he extended when he recognized the Soviet Union (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Until they read that President Roosevelt has charged their Government with flagrant breach of faith (TIME, Sept. 2), that Moscow replied last week by rejecting and refusing to argue the charge, and that Secretary of State Cordell Hull thereupon recorded the Red breach upon white paper for future reference (see p. 11), Russians will continue to believe that Moscow & Washington...
...Foreign Commissar Nikolai Krestinsky in the formal U. S. note, "to call attention to the activities, involving interference in the internal affairs of the United States, which have taken place on the territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . . . and . . . to lodge a most emphatic protest against the flagrant violation of the pledge given by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . . . prior to the establishment of diplomatic relations...
...asks A. A. U. P. chapters in neighboring universities to nominate an investigating committee. The committee visits the complainant's campus, hears both sides firsthand. Sometimes it finds that a sluggard or incompetent has got his just deserts. Sometimes it is able to "work a reconciliation. Only in flagrant cases of injustice does it consign the offending university to public infamy in a stinging report...
Most spectacular members of the French branch of the House of Rothschild are paunchy Baron Maurice ("Momo") who was once unseated from the French Assembly for flagrant vote-buying, and gaunt Baron James ("Jimmie") who fancies flashy clothes, horses, British women. Last week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built...
British diplomacy's most potent role during the War was in rationalizing the obviously illegal practices of the Allied blockade of Germany. The Allied fleets destroyed U. S.. trade with the Central Powers, then with neutrals, abrogated the Declaration of London bit by bit, in flagrant violation of international law. In reply to U. S. protests Britain insisted that all these measures were "essential to our existence." Writer Millis: "As long as that plea carried weight with our statesmen and the corresponding plea from Germany did not, the U. S. was unavoidably a silent partner of the Entente...