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...months have statesmen of the Great Powers striven so hard and so confusedly as they strove last week, turning the concert of nations into a jazz symphony of Peace & War, now sweet, now wild...
...based partly on the British proposal for a similar Permanent Disarmament Commission which was to have had one tooth: the signatories were to promise to "advise" with one another in case of violation. Last week the Conference bureau promised to discuss the U.S. draft next January and most statesmen bandied compliments with Wafter Wilson. Alone did Benito Mussolini's spokesman Marchese Meli-Lupidi Soranga rap out: "My Government may perhaps one day consider the question of control of armaments manufacture, but not before principles have been laid down in regard to quantitative and qualitative limitation of armaments...
...Charles A. Beard, famous Columbia professor, at a combined meeting of the History and Politics clubs held in Winthrop House Senior Common Room last night. Stating that it was impossible to find out what national interests are by any empirical study Mr. Beard went on to show what different statesmen have conceived them to be and what they might...
...Statesmen he says "have included in their concept of national interests the loaning of money to foreign governments and corporations, the selling of American goods abroad, the establishment of branch factories abroad, and the tangible property owned by Americans in foreign countries." Admiral Mahan, he said, widened the concept of national defense to include the defense of these national interests. The difficulty with these however, is that they are often contradictory, and the national government makes no attempt as a private merchant would do to draw up some balance sheet and weigh the advantages and disadvantages. It is this idea...
...would have suited him as well. With Georges Mandel working for Pierre Etienné Flandin, dopesters conceded him a safe majority when Parliament meets this week. His program, crisp-sounding but sufficiently vague, struck a note of concentration upon economic issues, a note of youth in France, where aged statesmen love to play that politics is pure politics-to them, an art. Said Premier Flandin...