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...Bruce, having read the Speech, finally departed and Speaker Hipel for the first time took the Throne, henceforth during this session the Speaker's Chair. By an old Ontario custom, not observed in England, the Premier then traditionally symbolized the Legislature's sovereign rights by ignoring the Speech from the Throne for 24 hours. To fill in the time, Legislators debated the same cut & dried bill which is never passed, a measure "respecting the administration of the oath of office to persons appointed as justices of the peace...
...paid out cash when, in 1933, he was elected president of Bank for international Settlements. But his lack of experience was no handicap. B. I. S. handles almost no cash, keeps in its vault as a solemn joke nothing but a 25? California gold piece and a counterfeit Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans and transfers among Europe's central banks. All his B. I. S. associates sincerely deplored his announcement last month that he would resign. Last week...
...stand aghast. First, those commentators on American government who held in their writings that the Supreme Court stood as a legal bulwark against democratic tyranny. Second, those foreign statesmen who recall what American writers and politicians said in connection with the war debts--that if was "morally reprehensible" for sovereign governments to "funk on their contracts." The third class is not really a class, it is just Senator Borah. Will he endeavor to have his legislation, making it impossible for governments that defaulted on their debt contracts to borrow again in the United States, made applicable to the Roosevelt government...
...fact contained in Saturday's CRIMSON. It stated that Harold Danser, Raymond Dennett, Lipman Field, William Salant, Julian Wilhelm and myself "will become emissaries of Hitler when they attend the sessions of the Model League of Nations." This is not the case. We shall represent at MOCK sessions the sovereign state of Germany at a meeting of college students the purpose of which is to learn something about international government by studying the respective points of view of the various nations of the world. WE ARE ABSOLUTELY IN NO SENSE OF THE WORD "EMISSARIES OF HITLER," and would not attend...
...Note: The CRIMSON is delighted to learn that one can represent "the sovereign state of Germany" today and neglect Hitler at a Model League of Nations session. We are also reassured to learn that the Liberal Club has not hoisted the swastika...