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...very existence of the League depends upon a general reduction in armaments." Later in the day, M. Briand's "strawberry rash" became so severe that he hastily returned to Pans for expert treatment. The Council then dispersed, abandoning the Geneva scene to the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley...
...career of a fighter who takes trouble by the whiskers. This General Butler literally did when, with only 180 Marines, he was besieged some years ago in a little Nicaraguan town, by a native general with over 2,000 troops. Smedley D. Butler, then a major, went out to parley with the besieging Commander, walked menacingly up to him, seized his long mustachios, poked a pistol into his midriff, and then twisted the Nicaraguan's whiskers until he howled out orders to raise the siege and let Major Butler and his marines...
...Latin Europeans viewed askance last week an invitation transmitted by the U. S. State Department to France and Italy suggesting that "observers" from those nations would be welcome at the projected Coolidge Three-Power naval disarmament parley (TIME, Feb. 21) of the U. S., Britain and Japan. Newspapers in Paris and Rome seemed predominantly against the sending of "observers" by their Governments, but Rome made no official reply last week...
...Yanguas has stood so firmly on the letter of Spain's international rights that: 1) Spain quit the League of Nations after making politically impossible demands for a Permanent League Council Seat (TIME, March 29, 1926 et seq.); 2) In Paris, last week, a secret Franco-Spanish parley concerning Morocco broke down after prolonged negotiations...
...Present day students having no definite purpose, are essentially drifters, products of economic ease who live on the work of others," stated Dr. G. A. Coe, Professor of Religious Education at Columbia, at the third Intercollegiate Parley on American College Education held last week-end at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut...