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Brigadier-general Sir. Percy Sykes, Late commander of Colonial troops in Southern Persia, has placed a memorial wreath to Dillwyn Parrish Starr '08 at the base of the honor roll board in the main hallway of Widener Library. Starr was a lieutenant of the Cold stream Guard of the British army and was killed in action on September 15, 1916, at Giuchy in France. In his undergraduate days at the University he won his "H" on the football team during four successive years. The green wreath has a small Union Jack Pinned...
Died. Richard Pearson, 71, Republican Representative from North Carolina to the 54th, 55th, 56th Congresses, former Minister (1902-09), to Persia, Greece, Montenegro, at Asheville, N. C., of a complication of diseases...
Ireland was admitted into the sacred circle of the League of Nations by unanimous vote. On all sides there were spontaneous manifestations of good-will toward Ireland. In eloquent speeches, representatives of Britain, France, China, Persia and other countries extended felicitations to the Free State representative. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen of Norway concluded with: " Let us not forget that Norway furnished our new colleague State with one of her first Kings...
...motion introduced in the Legislative Assembly at Calcutta by Sir Deva Prasad Sarvadhikary, advocating withdrawal by India from the League of Nations, was withdrawn after several members had pointed out the good work that the League was doing in Japan, China, Persia...
...doubtful that the Soviet promise to end anti-British propaganda means much, as the Communist Party, which drills and sends out the agitators to Turkey, Persia and the distant goal of British India, from the propaganda schools of Samarkand and Tashkent, is technically not the same as the Soviet Government. The British prestige in Asia is the first line of defense that any such combination must destroy, and that will take more than propaganda...