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...depressing statistics and publishing favorable ones would not be followed in a perfect world. But the copper trade has at least been perfectly frank about the matter- more so than certain other industries which have practised the same policy. Moreover, blank silence is probably preferable to the issuance of partial, inaccurate or careless statistics...
...trouble has resulted from social and political changes during and after the War in Europe, whereby many previously wealthy families have had their jewels confiscated or have been forced to sell them because of sudden poverty. Against these conditions a Londor syndicate has been struggling hard but with only partial success...
Last week, the League of Nations Temporary Commission on Slavery discussed peonage (employment of peons or laborers). The Commission "tended" toward the conclusion that peonage in the Philippine Islands and in some Central American republics "almost" amounts to forced labor and "may" therefore be construed as "partial" slavery...
...indebtedness, the difference is a loss, which in effect is subtracted from the amount of the principal paid. But the ways of finance are not the ways of politics. If part of the Italian debt must be canceled, it is in the interest of political peace that this partial cancellation be disguised as a moratorium, a lower interest rate, or both...
...Swaraj," Mr. Das once said, "is indefinable, but the same as self-government, democracy and home rule." More specifically, it means self-government within the British Empire, and concomitantly substitution of the tauchayet (village) system of administration for the religious minorities system now in partial operation...