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Tariff War. Six years ago the Irish Free State flatly refused to pay $25,000,000 yearly for land annuities owed British absentee landlords. In retaliation, Britain slapped a penalty tariff on Irish products, the Free State retaliated in kind and a first-rate tariff war was on. Last week Mr. de Valera, according to reports which leaked out from the meeting, turned up with an almost inspired proposal. As salve to his own people, he suggested that British naval bases on Irish soil be turned over to Eire, that England be allowed to use them and other bases...
...days when Benito Mussolini was a rabid, stump-speaking young Socialist, he used to demand free lunches for Italian school children at the expense of the State. Last week by Fascist decree school lunches were made compulsory throughout Italy, but not at the expense of the State. Rich moppets will be charged enough to pay for their lunches and those of poor moppets as well. Rich or poor, every Italian school child will be required, before eating school lunch, to say this grace...
Davidson and Rizzo, of Tome: Page, of St. George's; Brown, of Horace ki, of Rindge Tech, are among last Mann; Merrill, of Exeter, and Rockie year's point-winners returning. In addition, breastroker Warner Pach, of Exeter; backstroker Charlie Kilvert and free-styler Bandy Sharp, of St. George's are expected to provide plenty of competition...
...merry time of year in Moscow under the Soviet regime has always been when delegates come swarming up all the railways of Russia, traveling on free passes, supplied with bounteous food & drink, and are given the best hotel rooms in the cap-ital-used by tourists in the summer-while they meet as the Parliament of Bolshevism. Last week this national picnic was extra special. The Soviet Union has a new Stalin Constitution and under it the deputies going to Moscow had been elected for the first time directly by all the voters whom they represent (TIME...
...speech the chief parts of which did not come through the censorship but whose text was printed and reprinted in Soviet papers, the Dictator said of the men and women up for election to Russia's new Parliament: "I cannot say with assurance that their ranks are free ... of such men whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom.'. . . Our Constitution foresees the possibility of that situation-a deputy who has begun to kick. . . . The Government must organize new elections in a case like that. . . . If they have gone...