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Perhaps the sharpest barb yet hurled at the Kellogg Peace Pact came last week from onetime Director Salvador de Madariaga of the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations. Wrote he to the London Times: "It is evident that a state which offers to renounce all but defensive wars (and that is what the American proposal means, despite its, in appearance, unqualified condemnation of war) renounces nothing at all so long as it retains the right to define when it is fighting a defensive...
Nothing more is wanted by Japanese Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, although he informed the U. S. State Department last week that the Japanese Government "take [the Kellogg pact] to imply the entire abolition of the institution of war, and they will be glad to render their most cordial cooperation toward the attainment of that...
While Il Duce was embracing and triumphing at Rome, last week, there was left to King Vittorio Emanuele III?who has just returned from a state visit to Tripolitania and Cyrenaica?merely the cold, staid duty of honoring at Turin the late Emanuele Filberto, Duke of Savoy, born in 1528. All that could pertinently be said about Duke Filberto was compressed into a trenchant oration by famed Senator Sem Benelli, author of The Jest, a grewsome play which Actor John Barrymore made a hit-show in the U. S. some years...
...occasion was the opening of the first Camp Conference of the Order of the Star. The thousand or more disciples who were present at the faggot burning included persons from every state in the U. S. as well as residents of India, Australia, England, Russia, South America...
...Eric Krenz (Stanford) in the discus and shot put. Illinois, regular winner in the middle west, did what was expected at Evanston, Ill., and by winning eleven points out of sixteen kept the track and field championship of the Big Ten. George Simpson (Ohio State) won two events, the 100 and the 220-yard dash. Lately Cambridge has been beating Oxford at most sports. There are generally some American Rhodes scholars on the Oxford teams. Last week Cambridge stuck to routine in 13 tennis matches. There were three U. S. players on the Oxford team...