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...Seventeen days after it had assembled the 15th Assembly of the League of Nations adjourned last week. The great European expresses slid out of the station, their corridors jammed with voluble diplomats, and Geneva was left once more to the Swiss and the busy clerks and small committees of the League's permanent staff...
...Seventeen years of military liability was enough training for the pre-War legions of Wilhelm Hohenzollern. Under the new dispensation Italian bambini will shoulder wooden muskets at the age of 8. A quarter of a century later they will put away the last of their peacetime arms...
Vastly encouraged about Prince George, King George sent him out last winter to do South Africa and Australia. Seventeen thousand miles of South Africa was all he could stand (TIME. Jan 29). Sadly King George announced that the "heavy strain" of Australia would be too much for his fourth son, appointed his third son the Duke of Gloucester to do Australia this autumn. Last week loyal London editors hinted that perhaps Prince George's romance was the real reason for the substitution. They were confident that he will be equal to the strain of marriage. When Prince George got back...
...DARK BACKWARD?Henry W. Nevinson ? Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Seventeen historical essays, ranging from Troy to the World War, by the Manchester Guardian journalist who in his Changes and Chances series wrote brilliantly of his own times...
Latest returns of the Crimson-Literary Digest poll on the Roosevelt policies total 1,911 voting "yes" and 1,024 voting "no." Results from seventeen college newspaper polls continue to reveal an astonishing overturn of student sentiment in favor of Roosevelt. Figures follow. Univ. Yes No Total Harvard 1,911 1,024 2,935 Yale 1,283 830 2,113 Cornell 961 645 1,606 Brown 241 180 421 Univ. of Va. 160 68 228 Univ. of Wis. 374 148 522 New York Univ...