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...grizzled old Senator George William Norris. His purpose (with which no disinterested person has ever disagreed) is twofold: 1) to eliminate the legislative influence of Senators & Representatives whose constituencies have already repudiated them; 2) to close the 13-month gap between an election in which voters express their sovereign will and the first meeting of a new Congress in which that will is to be executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lame Ducks' End | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

Britain still stands off the gold standard. Last week one dealer reported that he was buying 1,000 British goldpieces of ?i denomination a day, paying for them of course somewhat "more" in paper. Was this legal-this trafficking in gold pieces stamped with the image of the Sovereign- to make a "paper profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Brains | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...International Police Force (ultimate name unimportant} to swing the above nightsticks and crack them over the heads of sovereign states which do not toe the mark of International Decency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...Neither the World Court nor the Hague Court is endowed with an authority over sovereign states in any way remotely comparable to what men mean when they say "a court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...World's!" Not new, M. Tardieu merely gave a semblance of creation to the old, calm, logical French argument that only a real International Law, only a real League of Nations and only a real World Court can make sovereign states toe the line of International Decency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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