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Well poised Germans no longer take seriously that keen but brittle strategist, General Erich Ludendorff. Long of since he has Hindenburg"- if ceased to he be ever "the was - brains but not until last week did he dare to flout openly the great Feldmarschall who is President of the Republic...
...Poland. The Government of Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski flatly refused last week, a demand by the Soviet Government that one of its agents be allowed to participate at the trial in Warsaw of Boris Kovenko, the confessed assassin of M. Vojkov. How dared small Poland thus flout great Russia...
...what paper would thus dare to flout rich, potent, organized hat makers? Yet hat making (especially straw hat making) is a leading Italian industry...
...famed French aviatrix, was threatening to sue the Commission should its policy of excluding women as commercial pilots be continued. Mme. Boland claimed that dozens of French women, "in these hard times," are anxious to brace their family budgets with the stiff pay of air pilots. Dared the Commission flout the honest aviatrices of France ? Soon Sir Philip Sassoon, British Under-Secretary of State for Air, and Chairman of the Conference, made a gracious announcement: "Beginning immediately, women may apply for licenses to pilot commercial aircraft in all countries which are represented on the Commission. . . .* We have always been accustomed...
...liquor treaty between the U. S. and Great Britain. Said he: "To give immunity to the cargo and guilty persons on board would be to clear those whose guilt should condemn the vessel and to restore to them the liquor and thus release for another opportunity to flout the laws of a friendly government which it was the purpose of the treaty to discourage." As a result of this decision, the captain and four members of the crew of the British ship, Quadra,, captured 25 miles off San Francisco in 1924, were convicted of conspiracy against...