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Nevertheless the resignation of M. de Laveleye was accepted by the King, and this tactical sop to opponents of Amnesty foreshadowed a period of political haggling, possible compromise and modification of the law. Brussels wiseacres agreed that the hard-headed Belgian public has been totally unimpressed, one way or the other, by Premier van Zeeland's grand transatlantic mission. They consider that M. & Mme van Zeeland have had harmless White House fun, that their Premier must now once more devote himself exclusively to Belgium's earnest knitting...
...sop to injured Southern feelings, the Post Office Department promised to memorialize Confederate Generals Robert Edward Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson on a 4? stamp. Last week when the Lee-Jackson stamp, bearing a picture of Stratford Hall,General Lee's Virginia birthplace, for good measure, was placed on sale it looked as if the Post Office Department were in trouble again. General Lee was apparently wearing the uniform of a lieutenant colonel as there were only two stars on his coat collar. "Marse" Robert, Commander of the Confederate States Armies, ranked as a general, rated three.* What...
Meantime in Wall Street the franc's turn for the worse intensified the current jitters over the outlook for U. S. money rates. Another boost in bank reserve requirements to sop up potential credit had been expected for months. That the move would mean a reversal in the long downward trend of interest rates was by no means a remote possibility, and bond prices accordingly tumbled...
...peculiar morality. Last week Japanese Sugar Tycoon Hatsutaro Akashi suddenly announced that a group of wealthy and patriotic Japanese love their Army so much that they are going to give it $50,000,000 in installments during the next three years. This was only a small sop, but it tended to decrease rather than increase the likelihood that Japan's swashbucklers would force Premier Koki Hirota to throw down the gage of war in an effort to call the tremendous bluff of Generalissimo Chiang in refusing Japan's demands, if he was bluffing...
...policy of economy in the Army, Navy or Air Force. The Fatherland, under Göring & Schacht, is headed more than ever for "war-preparation-prosperity." Nephew Herbert Göring, hitherto obscure, now sits at Dr. Schacht's right hand, an important Reichsbank official. As a sop to Nazi radicals, Agriculture Minister Darre was given a seat on a Cabinet committee of six appointed by the Minister-President to carry out Der Vier Jahresplan...