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Since 1931 no M. P. pledged to Prohibition has sat in Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved...
Into that luckless Afric realm Italians are expanding-with bombing planes, tanks, armored cars (TIME. Dec. 24). Squealing for protection His Imperial Majesty Power of Trinity I. King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect of God was last week trying to invoke Article XI of the League covenant. To Rome last week Geneva seemed particularly far away. Neither Mussolini nor Laval is squeamish. A definite impression got around that France will not protest too much if Italy makes of Abyssinia what Japan made of Manchuria...
...kinds of light domestic wine were served. The occasion was the Cabinet Dinner but this year it became the Cabinet & Alphabet dinner and the State Department's division of protocol made social history by deciding what New Deal agencies sat above other New Deal agencies in the realm of political politeness...
Ideally, the now Advocate should contain a combination of undergraduate opinion regarding literature and the social sciences. The fact that English is still the most popular field of concentration guarantees ample treatment of the former topic. But the wider realm of government, political science, and international relations has been slighted in the past. World-wide conditions, however, are of constantly more pressing import to the student, and that it will now have a chance to express his views in a medium expressly provided for that purpose is proof that a much-needed opportunity has at last been provided...
...potential aggressor, Ambassador Saito polished off his oration by reminding Philadelphia that Japan is perfectly willing to scrap the greater part of her Navy if only the U. S. and Britain will scrap more and bring themselves down to naval equality with the Son-of-Heaven's realm...