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...willing to tighten their belts without resort to revolt. The Saar plebiscite is not yet over, nor is the question of how Germany will be able to meet her payments to France for the Saar coal mines. But the most serious problem of all, which has recently been disturbingly quiescent, is that of Austrian independence. To ensure this, Foreign Minister Laval has just left for Rome to confer with Mussolini, though neither is over-confident of results. Once the Saar is forgotten, there is no telling what Hitler will do in Central Europe. There is nothing permanent in the existing...
...hunting season on utility and financial magnates, never enjoying a closed season to be sure but comparatively quiescent since Wiggin, Chase et al were salted away last year, seems to be enjoying another period when game is plentiful. Samuel Insull, recently trapped after a long pursuit by Federal authorities, has now been followed by O. P. van Sweringen as prey to the righteous. Unlike the Insull case, which is virtually over with the exception of refunding losses to the suckers and casting Insull into durance vile, the van Sweringen affair may yet have repercussions which will make the Federal authorities...
...Habsburg crown would exert a great temptation on the Roman Catholic Croats in Jugoslavia and the Catholic Tyrolese in Italy to join the recreated Empire. ... If Archduke Otto returns. Czechoslovakia will sever diplomatic relations with Austria." Thus, possibly because Austria's other crises were for the moment quiescent, louder than at any time in the past two years rose that favorite rumor of European cafes-restoration of 21-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg to the throne of Austria, Hungary, or possibly both. The House of Habsburg traces its ancestry straight back to a Germanic chieftain known as Guntram...
Many undergraduates, when reading the list of nominees for the Student Council published today, will indulge in some brief, quiescent wonder as to just what this organization is; others will know, and will cast the column of names aside after a glance. This lack of knowledge about the Council, and this indifference to its proceedings, are founded equally on just and reasonable grounds. During the last year, which may be taken as fairly representative, it has done little, and what it has performed has not been of a nature to attract the attention of the College. It has quashed...
...Briggs difficulty had no sooner become quiescent this week than the industry had something new to worry about. In Detroit, 3,000 workers in Hudson Motor Car Co.'s body plant struck, demanding a 20% wage increase. Hudson officials blamed the leaders of the Briggs strike, closed down the motor manufacturing department and chassis assembling lines-depriving 3,000 more workmen of jobs...