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This is the day which perhaps more than any other in the year is worthy of my notice; worthy of being placed beside January 1 as a date from which I may reckon. Upon this day I begin my annual April wanderings. For a week I shall roam wildly upon the highways and byways of the land, and seek out the rarer nooks to meditate upon the beauties and kindred affections of the spring...
...accepting the decision of the League Council, we are simply continuing our present regime for 25 years or until Irak enters the League, which may well take place before that time. . . . In any case, if Turkey should attempt to seize the Mosul region of Irak, she would have to reckon not alone with England but with the League, whose decision she would thus have flouted. . . . The British taxpayer does not stand upon the brink of an enterprise likely to lead to great expense...
This makes Senator Millerand a power in the Senate with which any Government must reckon. His influence, although at the opposite end of the political scale, is practically identical to that exercised by Senator Borah in the U. S. Senate. It is, as it were - taking into account the present political status of France - as if M. Millerand had drawn his sword to cross it with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand's in a duel that might at any time end the happy life of the Painlevé Cabinet...
...hoping that at last I had found an Eastern magazine that would print .facts un biased in any way by editorial opinion, but I reckon that is asking too much from any one living in New York City...
...attack, the umpires described the casualties as "very heavy"; in other words, the carnage was great. Tn the final attack, the Blues succeeded in capturing Haleiwa, a commanding position over the Pearl Harbor base. Promptly they were con ceded the victory, while the umpires and their assistants began, to reckon up the cost, to enumerate the lessons learned...