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Austria was expected to make reservations to the agreement on the grounds that her independence already is presupposed by the Treaty of St. Germain, at the close of the World War, whereby Austria is recognized as a sovereign, independent state...
...fine, not so blithe, not so bed-of-rosy will be the lot of the 34 "Honorables" who will be inaugurated Governors of 34 sovereign states in January 1935. Ten years ago they could have looked forward to the peaceful enjoyment of a reasonably good salary for the next two to four years while they devoted themselves to promoting good roads and state parks, to improving state universities and agricultural experiment stations, to making after-dinner speeches, conferring political favors, capitalizing on their political power to get into that Hall of Fame to which all good Governors aspire...
...Robert Clive the English Speaking Powers' third series of vigorous protests against the new oil monopoly laws of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo (TIME, Nov. 5). For the third time cocky Mr. Hirota's still cockier spokesman, famed Eiji Amau snapped: "We cannot admit any contention which ignores the sovereign independence of Manchukuo...
...Convened for the winter session amid a London pea-soup fog so dense and choking that for the first time in history the Sovereign left Buckingham Palace to open Parliament not in the gorgeous, drafty old State Coach but in his sleek, fog-tight Daimler. Even the Crown, which usually arrives in its own State Coach, was limousined...
...necessary elements of crime detection, chosen for service by an impartial commission, and stimulated by the prospects of rapid promotion and increases in pay. Yet any reform in the police agencies must be accompanied by similar reformation of the practices of the criminal prosecutor. This officer has practically sovereign, discretionary power in determining which of the captured criminals shall be prosecuted and how the prosecution shall be managed. He has the dangerous alternative of following up a case with vigor, or allowing it to be deferred and lost in the maze of court routine. Yet this officer remains the puppet...