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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Pierre Etienne Flandin and Paul van Zeeland had thus spoken in clear, temperate language, His Majesty's Government found the honor and good faith of the United Kingdom engaged and tested. Famed British elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain (who was the chief architect of the Locarno Pact and was made a Knight of the Garter by King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right...
Something Better? The "something better" was being urged upon harassed, obfuscated Squire Baldwin by the Permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, tenacious Sir Robert Vansittart, who nearly enabled his chief, Sir Samuel Hoare, to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia by the Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Sir Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian...
...Flander's Field's, good sir, I'm bound...
...cement the bonds of friendship of the students of our nations. The details are as yet not finally settled, and the society is not going to start work until next term, but then I hope to be able to give you fuller particulars. So far the help of Sir Evelyn Wrench of the All Peoples Association has been obtained, and he has promised to interest the American Ambassador in London in the scheme. If a similar society were to be started in Harvard, cooperation between the two might have valuable results. If any of you are interested and feel that...
Ridicule has always been a telling weapon in the fight against society's foibles, from Aristophanes to Sir' Roger de Coverly, and from Artemus Ward to H. L. Mencken. Such an attempt at ridicule as Princeton's may be too obvious to call forth more than a tolerantly amused laugh from old and young alike; still it will attract attention, and that is probably all its progenitors hoped to achieve. The splendid points of the program, the stab at the Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at the sometime patriots who in return...