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...discouraging in the extreme were it for the growing conviction among intelligent observers that disarmament can from now on be but a gesture under any circumstances. Within the last fortnight, Mr. Wells, of singular prophetic accuracy, has declared that no soldier is as obsolete today as the Greek phalanx. General Pershing said that the recognized armament of any nation in the next war will have nothing to do with its success or failure. And even Mr. Coolidge has been quoted to the effect that God and righteousness are the only true national weapons of defense...
Danes elected to their Folkething (Lower House) last week 30 Conservatives, 46 Liberals, 53 Socialists and 16 Radicals. Since the Right (Conservative-Liberal) phalanx of 76 thus outnumbered the Left (Socialist-Radical) 69, Premier T. A. M. ("Tam") Stauning (Socialist) promptly resigned...
When the Landtag again assembled to debate the bill, a phalanx of police guards protected the President and the Ministerial Bench. Vociferous but impotent the Communists introduced one obstructionist resolution after another. The Hohenzollern bill, finally debated amid groans and hisses, passed 258 to 37 with 65 abstentions...
...propaganda purposes arose from the fact that she was the first woman executed by order of a German court martial in Belgium for "recruiting" as opposed to "espionage." Within a few months Allied billboards were o'er-plastered with posters showing a brute-faced German officer commanding a phalanx of soldiers to fire upon a youthful, blooming defiant girl in the costume of a Red Cross nurse. The caption: EDITH CAVELL NEXT...
Onetime Laborite Premier James Ramsay Macdonald enjoyed little sleep last week at his comfortable London home, Upper Frognal Lodge. Night after night the House of Commons resounded through wearisome post-midnight hours as the 150 Laborite M. P.'s fought and filibustered against Premier Baldwin's irresistible phalanx of 413 Conservatives. At last Mr. Macdonald suffered the ignominy of seeing his forces become so disorganized that many a hot-headed Laborite howled such unparliamentary epithets as "coward," "liar," "murderer." ( This unbridled rowdyism burst forth, of course, when the Government began to force through the Commons its long heralded...