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...Oxford, the October Club, a communist study group, has been suppressed. The authorities were apparently unwilling to wait even for a definite pretext, the customary speech, pamphlet, or pronouncement which "outrages decency and leaves us with no alternative." It is difficult to believe that a move so clumsy as this will onlist the support of British opinion. After all, the October Club was not much more than a symbol of conviction, and no university decree can affect the particular conviction upon which it was based. The only result will be that communists throughout the world have one more reason...
...pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that ocean mail contracts are only a legal pretext for an outright subsidy, that its ships always had cargo space reserved for mail but that the Post Office Department assigned them no more than enough to keep their contract valid...
...progress of the arson trial in Germany has brought the Nazi's to a somewhat embarrassing dilemma. As every well-informed family knows, immediately after the burning of the Reichstag Hitler's party came to power, on the pretext that Communists had fired the building, that this was the last straw, Germany must awake! etc. And having eradicated the opposition they proceeded to erect the totalitarian state based on scrupulous unfairness. But now, obeying an incongruous twirk of conscience, they have decided to use legal processes to discover and convict those they accuse of the crime. This was a mistake...
...pretext for keeping Widener closed in the evenings the abolition of child-labor in the U.S.A...
...Under the pretext of safeguarding the province, he ordered his men to cut the dikes at Lanfeng and the result was a gruesome inundation extending over Western Shantung The people are now in the midst of consternation and ravages...