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...massive 343-page report this conclusion is drawn from a multitude of sources by Commercial Counselor Joseph R. Cahill of the British Embassy at Paris. The report was issued in book form, last week, by the British Department of Overseas Trade and produced an international sensation. One of its major conclusions, that French prosperity is due in large part to the French protective tariff, was promptly taken up in London by the many onetime English free traders who have now turned protectionist. The most potent of these is Baron Melchett, foremost British Chemical and Industrial Tycoon (TIME, Oct. 29). Speaking...
...developing the last two and major points of his thesis Counselor Cahill is factually illuminating where most analysts would prove vague. He observes that the capture by Imperial Germany of so many industrial towns in Northern France forced the development of an entire new industrial area around such southern, central and western cities as Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Grenoble, Limoges, Tours, Caen, Rouen and even Paris. It is these new and War-born producer areas which Mr. Cahill hails as of paramount significance in the French industrial boom of today...
...prodigious importance of this conquest appears from its three major effects: 1) Bolivia, third largest South American country, was cut off from all access to the sea; 2) Chile acquired the largest nitrate fields in the world, taxes from which now supply over half the revenues of the Chilean Treasury; and 3) Peru was deprived even of Tacna and Arica, without which strategic provinces she cannot hope to wrest back her ravished nitrate fields...
Despatches from the Albanian capital of Tirana, last week, extravagantly rumored that over 300 minor and major blood feuds are now pending against well guarded King Ahmed Zogu. It was also rumored that the Sovereign had broken off the engagement which has bound him since childhood to wed Lela, luscious 23-year-old daughter of the great Albanian tribal chieftain Shevket Bey Verlatzi. Such a jilt, if actually perpetrated, can scarcely fail to engender another deadly blood feud...
This social function which is the first in the history of the Military Science Department will be open to 400 invited guests. The plan has received the heartest approbation from Major L. A. Craig, head of the department. A committee composed of Juniors and Seniors, the chairman of which is P. J. W. Bove '29 and the assistant chairman. C. H. Hart '29, has been added to by representatives of the Sophomore and Freshman sections...