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First act last week of Switzerland's newly-elected President Giuseppe Motta (born near the Italian frontier, three times previously elected president-1915, 1920 & 1927) was to draw attention to a little- noticed clause in the new Swiss Military Penal Code making it a crime for Swiss to enlist without the Government's authorization under a foreign flag. As late as the 18th Century Spain, France and the Pope hired Swiss mercenaries. Pope Pius XI still has a Swiss Guard.† Whether they, in serving under the Papal flag, are now criminals under Swiss law did not appear...
...heaped on Fru Bang last week from far & wide. The Danish Minister of Justice. C. Th. Zahle, who is responsible for her just trial, sympathized: "To me there is no evidence of criminal temperament in this case. But, on the contrary, love and pity for suffering. The new Danish penal code contains a provision for reducing the punishment to a minimum in cases where the sufferer asked assistance to die. Unfortunately for Else, however, the new code does not come into force until 1933, and the code of 1866, which is still in force, is rather severe...
...French Guiana, with word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests. But French Guiana, as all the world knows, is also France's penal colony. Young Frenchmen wall not go there to colonize. Therefore, by order of the French Government, it has been decreed that in future only a coastal belt 25 miles deep is to be known as Guiana. The rest of the territory is to be a separate colony, separately administered...
...house in Elizabeth, N. J., lived Mrs. Tessie Penal and her nine children, Mrs. Fanny Evans and her six children. All 15 children played, squabbled, fought in one yard. One day Mrs. Evans had Mrs. Penal arrested. She told a judge Mrs. Penal had attacked her with a stick in a dispute over rights to the yard. The judge ordered them both to move...
...request for the League's help in the international reform of penal administration...