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Protocol Analyzed. Analyzed, the protocol is an elaboration of the "American Plan" submitted by Professor Shotwell and his associates. Thus, it is somewhat of a paradox that the nation which has, perhaps, contributed more to the theoretical banishment of war is the U. S., which is not a member of the League. The protocol is based on the principle of obligatory arbitration. Members and non-members of the League can endorse its terms; all become aggressors if they either fail to take their dispute to the League or ignore a League or P. C. of I. J. ruling. The Council...
...Russian press recently divulged the fact that the War Lord had addressed Bolshevik students on Aug. 1, the anniversary of the date 'Germany declared war on Russia, in a noteworthy anti-American speech. The War Lord found it something of a paradox that "America, which is supported by its industries and which helped to crush Germany in order to keep out a solid competitor, emerged from it (the War) with a pacifist reputation...
Next day, a South Dakota Bishop, Bernard J. Mahoney, performed a paradox. He condemned the Ku Klux Klan without naming it and at the same time scored the two larger political Conventions for having failed to name it in their condemnations...
When questioned further, the member explained how such a paradox would be possible. The Platform Committee is already working on a practical and constructive platform, embodying, of course, the usual Democratic principles, but whether this platform will be adopted by the convention will depend in a large part upon the voting strength of the Democratic delegates present. There are rumors abroad, the reporter was told, that independent groups are making deep-laid schemes to secure the adoption of certain measures contrary to the accepted principles of the Democratic party. A strong and well-organized crowd might even "capture" the convention...
Although Rome was deluged by a continuous and torrential downfall of rain, the Romans were miserable from thirst. The paradox is explained by a landslide which broke the Tivoli Aqueduct and thereby cut off Rome's domestic water supply...