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...rumor-frantic by Mr. Mellon's secretive arrival. So certain were they that he would go to the Hotel Crillon and at once order "a New England boiled dinner" that two of the lesser journals reported he had done so. What did this unnatural-in-an-American conduct portend? Obviously a secret conference was to be held upon the Ile St. Louis. Cherchez le conference...
Fashionable Simla, mountain resort of Sahibs, got this news, got also news of riots at Amritsar, scene of hideous British butcherings in 1919. Something more serious than anti-moviedom seemed to portend...
...plan of New York dry leaders to draw Senator Borah into the prohibition war in New York state. For there the issues are more clear cut than elsewhere and demand the services of experienced war horses. The issues which portend confusion for the next presidential campaign have, in the Empire state, been drawn to a head. Whereas the present concern with prohibition has been accentuated in all states by the Coolidge order bringing state officials into Federal revenue service, in New York there are two definite questions confronting the combatants. The one involves the popular referendum contemplated in that state...
...second omission is that the passive conduct of the Democrats does not necessarily portend Republican success in coming elections. By not taking issue, the Democrats may make some very good issues. Although Democratic voters in general will approve the entrance into the World Court, the repeal of the estate tax and the mere fact of the aluminum controversy added to the perennial tariff issue and viewed in the light of a distinct Democratic Party not leagued with the Insurgents, can give the Republicans the usual trouble at mid-term elections...
...traditional imperial policy indicates the desirability and need of striking while the iron is hot, and devoting all energy to a complete success in the Eastern theatre of war. Moreover, from a military point of view, the softness of the ground and the great strength of the Allied lines portend little success for an offensive in Flanders...