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This delegation, coming from churches in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, comes to the United States to reaffirm the principles of individual liberty and democracy which brought the Mayflower to Plymouth...
What Agent Gilbert did definitely say, last week,, was that any contemplated revision of the Dawes Plan is still "in the phase of study," and that "no extraordinary or decisive results" are to be expected from his present visit to Rome. He went on to reaffirm his oft repeated statement that the revision of German liabilities at a definite and presumably somewhat reduced figure would not necessarily involve a similar readjustment of Allied indebtedness to the U. S. Said Agent Gilbert, in the manner of President Coolidge: "The reparation question is an entirely independent problem concerning only European nations...
...products that are badly needed, a fact that goes far to favor the Franco-German industrial cartel. Germany wins several points: 1) She secured a much needed outlet for her industrial products. 2) She obtained equal trade treatment, which she did not expect. 3) She forced the French to reaffirm their renunciation, made at the time of the London Conference (TIME, Sept. 1, 8, 1924), of their right (Versailles Treaty, Article XVIII) to seize German private property in the event of the Reich defaulting on reparation payments...
Princeton University, exemplar of educational democracy, last week found itself in the exciting position of one who must reaffirm, or retract, or redefine the policy underlying his conduct. For years Princeton has had an honor system and an undergraduate self-government body, composed of seniors. The honor system has functioned almost perfectly. Undergraduate responsibility has been demonstrated to a lesser degree by the senior council, the powers of which have fluctuated, without ever being very clearly defined, between the purely advisory and the actually administrative. The fluctuation has followed naturally from the changing strength of character in successive classes. Thus...
...Resolved, That we missionaries, pastors and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Philippines put ourselves on record and reaffirm our actions of 1922, that we are in entire sympathy with the national aspirations of the Filipino people...