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...exhibtion gives its high place of honor to a retrospective assemblage of works by the leading men of yesterday-Cezanne (the large Joueurs de Cartes owned by M. Vollard, and reproduced in his monumental Biography), Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Courbet and Bazille, together with a magistral El Greco thrown in to give historical perspective...
...position of the refugees is at present precarious. Until last June they were supported by the U. S. Near East Relief organization. The League of Nations later took action to arrange loans of more than $4,500,000 to settle these victims of the Greco-Turkish War on the 1,250,000 acres granted to the League for that purpose by the Greek Government. But none of the money was spent on relief, with the result that the refugees, although they are likely to be able to support themselves six months hence, have no means to tide themselves over...
...such indemnity as the Council might ultimately fix (TIME, Sept. 24). This sum was paid over to Italy on the orders of the Ambassadors, who found that Greece was dilatory in tracking down the murderers of the Italian mission on the International Commission for the Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian Boundary...
...Italo-Greek dispute (caused by the murder of General Tellini and three other Italian members of the Greco-Albanian Boundary Commission near Janina in the Epirus on Aug. 27, and protracted by the subsequent occupation of Corfu and adjacent islands by Italian forces) hung fire while waiting for the report of the Council of Ambassadors' Inquiry Mission at Janina...
...moment the friends and opponents of the League are joined in hot debate as to the success of the League in handling the Greco-Italian crisis. By its quiet use of the public opinion of the world, say the pro-Leaguers, Geneva brought a restraining influence to bear on Mussolini and saved the situation, establishing its own position as a permanent force for peace. But the critics are up in wrath claiming that the death-knell of the League has been sounded, flouted and defied by Italy, and requiring only the in pace requiescat" or the equivalent pagan expression...