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...conference situation is desperate. It holds the lives of the young men of the world in its hands and public opinion despairs of its deliberations. Yesterday I offered M. Barthou a place on the committee to redraft the disarmament plan. M. Barthou declined. Today I attempted a draft resolution myself. M. Barthou rejects it. Either M. Barthou must submit a program of work or the general commission will be summoned and will be informed that the bureau has failed. This means that the conference closes down...
...announced that Dr. Howard Lee McBain, dean of the faculty of Political Science at Columbia University (whence have come so many Roosevelt experts), had been invited to Cuba to redraft Cuba's election laws, because "the 1934 Presidential election must be entirely beyond suspicion...
Second kick was announcement of an election next June of a Constituent Assembly to redraft the old constitution. Proud of the old constitution was the Administrative Council's idealistic member, onetime President Baltazar Brum, good friend of Woodrow Wilson for whom he named a Montevideo avenue. The Council put in a dignified, parliamentary protest. Meeting in an all-night session, Congress instructed President Terra to undo all he had done...
Final Reports. Bishop Brent, President J. Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), Professor William Adams Brown of Union Theological Seminary (Presbyterian) and Bishop James Cannon Jr., of Washington (Methodist Episcopal) were appointed, with nine Europeans, to a committee instructed to redraft the reports of the six agreement-finding committees for approval by the conference as a whole...
...with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate upon "a bill which is not only one of the worst pieces of legal draftsmanship on record, but moreover so mangled by amendments that the Government ought to redraft it entire . . . . " Conservatives shouted that the Laborites ought to cooperate in redrafting the bill, a suggestion which so enraged Mr. Clynes that he uttered an able if unconscious "bull." Cried he: "Asking the Opposition to cooperate with the Government is like asking burglars to cooperate with the police!" Chuckled delighted...