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Belgians remember with shivers the remorseless tramp, tramp of Kaiser Wilhelm's field-grey hordes, the death-belching thunder of Hohenzollern guns. One night last week the Belgian Cabinet sat up late, heard its veteran Foreign Minister, far-sighted Paul Hymans, fire a broadside of warnings.
"It is the short-sighted business man who builds for today only. A progressive man builds with the future in mind. If industrial prosperity is to be ours, we shall need trained and strong workers. To give this year is not a humanitarian project alone; it is good business.
¶ Passed by tremendous Conservative majorities of over 200 the preliminary enabling bills for the Ottawa tariff accords (TIME, Oct. 24). Though the free trade Laborites and Liberals never mustered more than 90 opposition votes, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain thought it necessary to lecture them, taking as...
Two fishermen off Devil's Island, at the entrance to Halifax Harbor, one day last week sighted the sickle-shaped fin of a swordfish speeding shoreward. Surprised to see a swordfish so close to land, they pursued it. Soon they saw the reason. Behind it was a school of...
" 'He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. He panders, indeed, to greedy capital which is keen-sighted and may shift for itself; but he beggars labor which is honest, unsuspecting and too busy with the present to calculate for the future. The prosperity of the...